Philip Leonard Rhodes (1895–1974) was an
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known for his diverse yacht designs.
Life
Rhodes designed a wide variety of vessels from 7' dinghies to 123' motor-sailors, from hydrofoil racers to
America's Cup
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winners - his
12 Meter class
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''
Weatherly'' (USA-17) winning the
1962 defense. His work also included large motor yachts, commercial and military vessels such as minesweepers and police boats. His clients ranged from Rockefellers to Sears & Roebuck.
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Rhodes was born in 1895 in
Thurman, Ohio
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. He attended
MIT
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, graduating in 1918 in naval architecture and marine engineering.
[Retrieved on 08-10-09] He worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers during World War I. After the war he began work as a shipfitter in
Lorain, Ohio
Lorain () is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River, about 30 miles west of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 65 ...
. He later moved to New York where he opened a small office as a marine architect.
Rhodes joined the design firm of
Cox & Stevens Cox & Stevens began in 1905 as a yacht design and commercial brokerage in New York City. The original principal partners were Daniel H. Cox, Irving Cox, and marine engineer Colonel Edwin Augustus Stevens Jr., son of renowned designer Edwin August ...
in 1934, becoming head naval architect there after the death of lead designer Bruno Tornroth in 1935. In 1946, the firm of Philip L. Rhodes succeeded Cox & Stevens Inc. It closed in 1974 following Rhodes's death.
Rhodes formed his own company, '' Philip L. Rhodes, Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.''
Designs
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Chesapeake 32
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Northern 25
The Northern 25 is a Canadian sailboat that was originally designed by Philip Rhodes and adapted by Dennis Fernice as a cruiser and first built in 1970.
Production
The design was built by Northern Yachts in Ajax, Ontario, Canada between ...
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Mariner 19
The Mariner 19 is an American Trailer sailer, trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Philip Rhodes and first built in 1962.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 102-103. Houghton Miffli ...
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Meridian 25
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Rhodes 18
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Rhodes 19
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Rhodes 22
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Rhodes 33
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Rhodes Evergreen
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Rhodes 27 38 foot International Rule, racer cruiser
* Rhodes 'Seabreeze' class, a 33-foot sloop sold by Seafarer Yachts
* Rhodes Meridian, a 24-foot sloop sold by Seafarer Yachts
* Rhodes
Pearson Vanguard, a 33-foot sloop built in Rhode Island by Pearson Yachts
* Pearson Rhodes 41 a 41-foot sloop built in Rhode Island by Pearson Yachts
* Rhodes Reliant, a 41-foot sloop or yawl built by Cheoy Lee Shipyard in
Hong Kong
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Rhodes 77
The Rhodes 77 is an American sailboat that was designed by Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1947.
The Rhodes 77 design, initially built from steel, was adapted for aluminum construction by McCurdy & Rhodes in the 1980s.
Productio ...
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Cheoy Lee Offshore 40
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Rhodes Bantam
The Rhodes Bantam is a strict one-design class sailboat designed by Philip Rhodes in 1945. The first boat was launched in 1945 in Skaneateles. More than 1500 have been built. It can be used for day sailing and will comfortably hold 2 adults and ...
, a 14-foot sloop (daysailer/racer)
* O'Day
Tempest 23
The Tempest 23 is an American trailerable sailboat designed in 1962 by Philip Rhodes and Richard D. Carlson.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 242. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Production
The ...
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Seafarer Bahama 35 MS
The Seafarer Bahama 35 MS is a Dutch sailboat that was designed by American naval architect Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1960. It was Rhodes' design #702.
The design was developed by Seafarer Yachts into the Seafarer 38C in ...
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Seafarer 36C
The Seafarer 36C is an American sailboat that was designed by Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1968. The boat was built with a ketch rig or an optional sloop rig, without the mizzen mast, but with a taller main mast. The design wa ...
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Seafarer 38
The Seafarer 38 is an American sailboat that was designed by Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1971.
The Seafarer 38 was also sold as the Rhodes 38, Seafarer 38 Ketch and the Seafarer 38C.
Production
The design was built by Seafa ...
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Rhodes 38
The Seafarer 38 is an American sailboat that was designed by Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1971.
The Seafarer 38 was also sold as the Rhodes 38, Seafarer 38 Ketch and the Seafarer 38C.
Production
The design was built by Seafa ...
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Swiftsure 33
The Swiftsure 33 is a Dutch sailboat that was designed by American naval architect Philip Rhodes as cruiser and first built in 1959.
Production
The design was initially built by de Vries Lentsch and later by Royal Netherlands Aircraft, both ...
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Woodpussy
* Grumman Dinghy, an innovative aluminum dinghy designed to use Grumman Aircraft's post-war excess manufacturing capacity
* O'Day 'Widgeon', a 12-foot sailing dinghy
* O'Day 'Sprite', a 10-foot fiberglass sailing dinghy
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Outlaw 26
The Outlaw 26 is an American sailboat that was designed by Philip Rhodes as a cruiser and first built in 1965.
Production
The design was built by O'Day Corp. in the United States between 1965 and 1968, with 80 examples completed.
After pr ...
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International Penguin Class racing dinghy
* 'Dyer Dhow', one of the first production fiberglass boats
* 'Dyer Dink'
References
Further reading
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* Rhodes bequeathed his designs to th
Mystic Seaport Museum Collection which has a short biography.
Temple University
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* Stavis, Be
External links
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Philip Rhodes
United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel
United States Army personnel of World War I
1895 births
1974 deaths