William Garden,
CM (5 November 1918 – 29 April 2011) was a
Canadian and
American
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naval architect and marine engineer. For six decades, he designed watercraft ranging from
commercial fishing vessels and
tugboats to motor and sailing
yachts.
Garden was born in
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
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Alberta. His family moved to Oregon (and later Washington) while he was a child in 1924. After graduating from high school in
Seattle, he studied boat building at the Edison Technical School, which later became part of
Seattle Central Community College. He then went to work for Andrew's Boat Company on Seattle's Portage Bay and by the age of 24, had turned out more than 50 vessel designs. He served at an army ship repair facility in
Adak, Alaska – "I was the only man in the Army employed in what I liked doing." He was discharged in the spring of 1946 as a Master Sergeant, After World War II Garden became licensed as a naval architect and set up his own design shop in Washington. He moved to
Victoria, B.C.
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The ...
, in the late 1960s and bought a nearby private island he renamed Toad's Landing, where he did his design work from then on.
He was made a Member of the
Order of Canada in 2006 in recognition for being "an accomplished naval architect and marine engineer".
He died April 29, 2011, at age 92.
Designs
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Bluejacket MS 23
The Bluejacket MS 23, also called the Bluejacket Motorsailer 23 and the Bluejacket 23 MS, is a Canadian trailerable sailboat that was designed by William Garden as a motorsailer and first built in 1984.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of ...
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Gulf 32
The Gulf 32 is an American sailboat that was designed by William Garden as a cruiser and first built in 1965.
Production
The design was initially built by Gulf Marine Products starting in 1965 and later by Capital Yachts in Harbor City, Ca ...
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US Yachts US 305
The US Yachts US 305 is an American sailboat that was designed by William Garden as a cruiser and first built in 1978.
The US 305 is a development of the 1977 Buccaneer 305, which was built by Buccaneer Yachts, also a division of Bayliner.
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References
Blue Book of Boats: Yacht designer, William Garden
External links
Mystic Seaport William Garden page
* http://library.mysticseaport.org/images/Garden1.jpg
William Garden
Canadian naval architects
Canadian yacht designers
Members of the Order of Canada
People from Calgary
United States Army non-commissioned officers
United States Army personnel of World War II
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1918 births
2011 deaths
Canadian emigrants to the United States