Boats and....
March 12, 2011
Welcome to the website of McGowan Marine Design, Inc., featuring the design and experimental work of Laurie McGowan. Opened in 2001, this is a full-service design office providing custom and semi-custom boat design services: concept drawings, CAD (3D modelling and movies, 2D plans, renderings), 3D 'unfolding' to 2D patterns, and stability, speed, powering, propeller, sail, and rigging analyses. I also experiment with fuel and energy saving techniques and devices and provide free plans
on my Energy page.
What’s New:
Mischief - A 61’ centreboard cruiser/racer inspired by the 1882 America’s Cup defender of the same name. Designed for Simon Bolt - a very experienced British-Indonesian sailor and businessman. Construction to be of all-‘glass keel/stem/lower transom, with wood/epoxy the rest, a construction based on my Fundy Sharpie designs.
LeBlanc 24 Chunnel Keel - a modified LeBlanc Brothers workboat. Neil LeBlanc was brave enough to try my ‘Chunnel Keels’ - a long tunnel between prominent twin keels, with very shallow draft and rudders off the keels - on his own boat.
And the results are...
LeBlanc 50 Trawler Yacht - a trawler yacht made from the LeBlanc 50 fishing boat hull. Seaworthy, rugged, very fuel efficient, and with loads of room inside and out. The owners love Mai Pehn Rai (“no worries” in Thai) and are cruising in the southern U.S. with plans for the Caribbean.
a fast and fun 23’ (7m)
tabloid trimaran
Copyright 2001-2011 inclusive McGowan Marine Design, Inc.
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