Bruce Farr
Ship Designer
1949 –
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Who is Bruce Farr?
Bruce Kenneth Farr, OBE, is a designer of racing and cruising yachts. Farr began building boats at 13 in Warkworth near Auckland,New Zealand. His first boats were plywood hard chine Moth class designs. He later designed and built variants of Cherubs and especially Flying 18s. His early designs were built in plywood with focus on light weight with good planing shapes. By his late teens he was designing small lightweight keel boats that were successful on the race course.
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