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This is a list of notable people born at sea. Name. Description. Year. Louis Aldrich [citation needed] American actor. 1843. Charles George James Arbuthnot [citation needed] British general.
Born. Frank Willis Butler. January 17, 1928. Los Angeles County, California, U.S. Died. November 15, 2020 (aged 92) Known for. Founding of Catalina Yachts, Coronado Yachts, Wesco Marine, and Wesco Tool. Frank Willis Butler (January 17, 1928 – November 15, 2020) [1] was the founder of Catalina Yachts, one of the biggest boat designers and ...
Wharram was born in Manchester, England.In 1953, after long studies into the records of boats of the Pacific in the libraries and museums of Britain, and inspired by Eric de Bisschop's book The voyage of the Kaimiloa, [1] he designed and built the first British ocean-going double-canoe-catamaran, the Tangaroa (length 23 feet 6 inches (7.16 m)) and in 1955–56 sailed with Jutta Schultze ...
Catalina Yachts is a U.S.-based builder of fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats ranging in sizes from eight to 54 feet in length. It was founded in 1969 in Hollywood, California by Frank Butler . [1] Catalina Yachts is one of the largest boat manufacturers in the world, with over 80,000 boats manufactured to date. [2]
John O. Johnson (January 10, 1875 - February 1963) [1] was a Norwegian-born, American boat builder, early aviator, and inventor in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. [ 2 ] Early life and boat building
Gar Wood returns the Harmsworth Trophy to the United States in 1920. Garfield Arthur " Gar " Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h ...
History. Carver Yachts was founded in 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when Charles "Charlie" Carter and George Verhagen started building mahogany runabouts in a factory on South 27th. The popular myth that they started building boats in the backyard garage is not true. They were both long time marine industry people that decided to build boats ...
Founder. Andrew Vavolotis. Defunct. 1992. Headquarters. Taunton, Massachusetts. Cape Dory Yachts was a Massachusetts-based builder of fiberglass sailboats, powerboats, and pleasure trawlers which operated from 1963 to 1992. It also produced a small number of commercial craft.