Sailing Pram

Sailing Pram

View of a sailing pram designed and built by Paul Gartside The January/February 2013 issue of WoodenBoat magazine has six pages about Paul Gartside, a prolific designer of boats. In recent years Water Craft magazine has featured a Gartside design in every issue. He is up to at least design number 185. His designs are under 50 foot in length with a "classical, traditional look and feel", and cover a wind range of types, though none appear to be "high performance" oriented. Gartside grew up in a boatyard near Falmouth. He has worked as a boatbuilder and boat designer since receiving a diploma in Yacht and Boat Design from Southampton College of Technology in 1974. In 1980 Gartside emigrated to the west coast of Canada where he was strongly influenced by William Garden who had a long career designing a wide variety of boats. Several years ago Gartside moved to Nova Scotia. Gartside was strongly influenced by Garden's design methodology which Gartside is quoted in the article describing as "for the most part he was using the very simplest of emperical methods, establishing a basis of comparison, taking known data from previous boats and plugging that in to predict where the next one would land." Gartside begins a design with sketching until there is a sketch which he and the client both like. Then he moves to the more detailed and analytical phase, whith the analysis heavily based on extrapolation from previous designs. It's interesting to me that all his drawings appear to be drawn manually rather than with CAD and a computer. https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/woodenboat-jan-feb-2013-paul-gartside.45650/