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Monthly Archives: August 2017

By nature the Giant Killer

16th August 2017

1977 the Silver Jubilee year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the R.O.R.C’s Cervantes Trophy race started off of the Lymington Spit Buoy and among the fleet were two Laurent Giles half tonners: Starlight Return and Giant Killer, both of which had been designed by Mike Pocock who for a couple of seasons led the […]

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1937 – the Wanderers begin …..

7th August 2017

Eighty years ago Eric and Susan Hiscock took delivery of the diminutive 24 footer Wanderer II (design number 0018) from which Eric was to commence his immensely prolific writing career. When not at sea aboard a  Wanderer II, III, IV, or V Eric and Susan resided in Yarmouth – a short fetch from Giles Office […]

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About Laurent Giles

The design practice developed 'between the First and Second World Wars' and 'post war' years into a thriving racing and cruisung yacht design house, specialising in sound design and engineering solutions to challenging client briefs.

At a time when the business of racing and cruising yacht design was developing... and throughout this important period the Laurent Giles design practice is recognised as being among the leaders, if not the leader in the development and use of new yacht design and construction technologies. Between 1939 and 45 he was first in charge of the Small Boats (up to 100ft) Design Section of the Department of Naval Construction, and later he served in Washington D.C. on aircraft construction.

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