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Navy 44 (M
The Navy 44 (M&R) is an American sailboat that was designed by McCurdy & Rhodes for the US Navy for sail training at the United States Naval Academy and built in 1985. The design was originally built by the manufacturer as the Navy 44, but is now usually referred to as the Navy 44 (M&R) or Mark I to differentiate it from the unrelated 1963 Alfred E. Luders designed Annapolis 44 which it replaced and the David Pedrick Navy 44 Mark II design which superseded it. Production The design was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States, with 20 boats built, all of them in 1985. Design The Navy 44 is a training keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a Ship's wheel, wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces . The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. It is fitted with a Westerbeke diesel engine for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCurdy & Rhodes
McCurdy & Rhodes is an American naval architecture design firm, originally based in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and now located in nearby Oyster Bay, New York. The company specializes in the design of fiberglass sailboats. The company was founded in 1965 by James A. McCurdy and Philip ("Bodie") H. Rhodes. Rhodes is the son of naval architect Philip L. Rhodes and both company principals got their start at Philip L. Rhodes, Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, where McCurdy was head of the Yacht Design Section and Bodie Rhodes did design work. History After its formation, the firm was involved in the design of many boats for Seafarer Yachts in the 1970s and 1980s. McCurdy's son, Ian A. McCurdy, graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in civil engineering and also graduated from the University of Michigan, with BS and a MS degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering. In 1980, Ian A. McCurdy joined McCurdy & Rhodes from his previous post at the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |