Talk:Sparkman & Stephens

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[edit] Manufacturing company stub

I have reverted the addition of the manufacturing-company-stub template, because S&S is a firm of designers, not manufacturers. They do not build boats, they design them, and their designs have built by boatyards all over the world. BrownHairedGirl 17:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Have now added the engineer-stub instead. BrownHairedGirl 18:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Then I think its fine. Engineer-stub is good enough. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 04:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famous S&S designs

[edit] Stormy Weather

"Patterned after Dorade but with two feet additional beam, Stormy Weather's final form was the result of intensive tank testing with models. After an unimpressive finish in the 1934 Bermuda Race, her international career took off with back-to-back Trans-Atlantic and Fastnet victories in 1935 (both skippered by Rod Stephens). Stormy Weather proved to be a wonderfully comfortable ocean cruiser; the installation of a navigator's compartment at the foot of the companionway was but one idea that made her such a convenient and pleasant vessel. In the view of at least one expert (rival naval architect John Alden), "a better design would be impossible to achieve!" we could list the designsGregorydavid 15:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)