privately held company industry yacht design founded 1981 founders bruce farr russell bowler headquarters annapolis maryland united states key people patrick shaughnessy president website farrdesign.com farr 400 rock and roll sailing off newport beach california farr 40 1 ton bodacious racing on san francisco bay farr yacht design founded by bruce farr in auckland new zealand is a racing yacht design firm based in annapolis maryland united states . the firm is led by patrick shaughnessy . its yachts measure from 25 feet 7.6 m to 125 feet 38 m . farr develops custom and production yachts including interiors sails and hull design . farr uses outside research and development with tank testing and wind tunnels . farr designed yachts have won and placed well in a broad range of races . contents 1 history 2 farr designed boats 3 sources 4 external links history edit bruce farr first achieved acclaim as a sailboat designer in the highly competitive 18 ft skiff class popular in australia and new zealand . farr designs won the 18 ft skiff giltinan world title several times in the early 70s . starting in 1973 bruce was able to focus full time on designing sailboats . another new zealander active as both a designer and sailor in the 18 ft fleet russel bowler a civil engineer by training introduced the fibreglass foam sandwich construction technique to the 18 ft class in 1977 with a boat 1 3 lighter and possessing a lower wetted area than the competition . starting in 1976 bowler provided structural engineering services to farr as a consultant and joined him full time in 1980 . within a year they moved the office to annapolis in order to get better access to the northern hemisphere yacht market . farr designed boats edit the yachts designed by farr are primarily light displacement fractional rig wide sterned shallow hulled yachts . many of bruce farr s early designs were comparatively skiff like in appearance with shallow hulls wide sterns and light displacement . the result is a quicker faster hull than more traditional racing yacht designs . over the years more and more designers have incorporated these ideas . the latest volvo open 70 class yachts are examples of this trend . in addition to one design yachts table farr yacht design has designed a various yachts for volvo ocean race and earlier whitbread teams under the volvo open 70 volvo ocean 60 and whitbread 60 rule . the company has also designed the volvo ocean 65 used in the 2014 15 edition of the race and 2017 18 edition . major yacht builders such as bavaria yachtbau and beneteau have commissioned farr designed yachts for their cruising lines of production sailboats . this includes bavaria s vision and cruiser lines and beneteau s first line . designs have been also made by farr yacht design under the gp42 and tp 52 yacht rule and for racing based on irc sailing international measurement system rating . other notable design include super maxi s and america s cup yachts for team bmw oracle racing 2007 2003 young america 2000 tag heuer 1995 new zealand 1992 1988 1987 1 and the 30m maxi yacht leopard3 . design phrf farr 10 20 odr 108 farr 12 20 81 farr 30 ton 156 mumm 30 after 2007 farr 30 yacht 54 farr 33 102 farr 36 96 mumm 36 42 farr 38 84 farr 38 1 84 farr 395 24 farr 40 1 ton 69 farr 40 odr 6 farr 42 66 farr 44 48 farr 46 66 farr 68 39 farr 727 192 farr 740 sport 162 note phrf rating shown is the northern california base rate full keel with standard mast unless otherwise described . sources edit challengers for the america s cup designed by farr yacht design ltd . farr yacht design ltd. retrieved 22 august 2011 . flying 18s giltinan history flying 18s news farr 727 external links edit farr yacht design website farr yachts.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title farr yacht design & oldid 726601769 categories yacht design firmsamerica s cup yacht designers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 23 june 2016 at 05 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view