Designer Archives

Here at WoodenBoat, we're lucky to have in our library nearly complete sets of The Rudder and Yachting magazines. These publications are treasure troves of boat history, and include beautiful cruising narratives, informative technical articles, and engrossing design reviews. Those design reviews are so engrossing, in fact, that we have many of them photocopied and filed by designer name. So, you can open a drawer and pull the file for, say, John G. Alden, and review the study plans and commentary for any of his boats ever published in those two magazines.
    We thought it would be nice to share some fo those with you, so we're going to begin an informal program here: a new category on this blog called "The Designer Archives." I've had B.B. Crowninshiled on my mind lately, as we'll be publishing an article in May about a new boat built to one of his designs. So, we lead off with B.B. Crowninshield:

From The Rudder, April 1916

Comments

[richard benson]

Looking for info on David Dana, NA, deceased. Designer of Queen of Sheba, later renamed Goddess Athena; Built by William Rudolph in Miami, 1969, Cold molded cedar on fir longitudinals. I own this vessel now, but searching line drawings etc; builder no longer has prints. David was the ?grandson of Richard Henry Dana jr, author of Two Years Before The Mast. This craft is 84' oal, 65' lwl and 40 tons in the sling. Any assistance helpful.