The Red Boat is the first boat that I designed and built (circa 1992). I built it during evenings and weekends while holding down my Naval Architecture day job. It was built from thin okoume plywood and is still being sailed. This is the first boat in which I applied the computer aided patterning techniques…
The Riptide 35 was my first design for Jonathan and Libby McKee of Seattle. The concept for the 35 was conceived by Jonathan during a long and uncomfortable distance race on an ultralight 50 footer. He realized that a high percentage of the sailors on board were there purely as human ballast. His design brief…
The Bieker 765 was designed for Phil Jameson, a professional foredeck hand whom I met through my America’s Cup work. Phil wanted to build the boat himself and sail it under the NZ Sportboat rule. I designed the boat with plenty of ballast to avoid turtling in the capsizes that are inevitable with these sorts…
The B1 Cherub (Bieker’s first Cherub) was designed for David Chisholm of Integra Composites in the UK. The company name for the skiff is the GT60. The goal was to a produce a design which would fit within the UK Cherub class rule but have the potential to have appeal outside that class. I used…
The Trinado was a design collaboration between Russell Brown and myself. It was designed for Donald Young and built by Russell in Port Townsend, Washington. The original concept was for a small trimaran which would use Tornado hulls as its floats. The Tornado floats ended up being a little shorter on righting moment than ideal,…
The PT Dinghy was designed as a performance double-handed hiking boat to be built at the Wooden Boat School in Port Townsend, WA (a center for traditional wooden boat building in the Western United States). The intention was to use the project to introduce students to lightweight wood/epoxy construction, carbon/epoxy detailing and metric units (I…
Strum was built as an evolution of the concept behind the Riptide 35 and 44. She is a high performance long course racing boat with comfortable cruising accommodations. Her light displacement and water ballast make her capable of 24 hour runs in excess of 350 NM and cruising speeds under power of 10+ kts. Water…
Although the Riptide 25 will have sportboat performance we do not think of it as a sportboat. It has enough stability and interior space to be comfortable on longer races and extended cruising. Water ballast means that the boat can be sailed effectively when short-handed. -Paul Particulars Overall Length 7.68 m Waterline Length 7.19 m…
The Jameson 650 is named after the client – Phil Jameson. Phil is a good friend and great sailor (VOR winner, America’s Cup competitor, etc.) . He built the Bieker 765 and wanted something even more challenging and fast. I think this will fit the bill! -Paul Particulars Overall Length 6.92 m Waterline Length 6.5…
