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Name
  
Bernard Smith

Role
  
Sailboat designer

Died
  
2010


Bernard Smith (sailboat designer) The 40Knot Sailboat Bernard Smith Susan Ida Smith 9781626549302

Books
  
The 40-knot Sailboat, Sailloons and fliptackers

Bernard Smith (1910 – February 12, 2010) was an US rocket scientist and speed sailboat designer, father of the Aerohydrofoil sailboat concept.

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Life

Smith was born in New York City, to Jewish Russian immigrants. He moved to California in 1935, where he worked as a welder for the Fruehauf Trailer company.

After World War II, with an honorary degree in physics from Reed College in Oregon, he started working as a civilian scientist in the US Navy, serving at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and later at the Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren , where he served as the technical director from 1964 until his retirement in 1973. He succumbed to liver cancer at age 99.

Sailboat design

  • The Vestas Sailrocket design was based on Smith's ideas.

    • Publications

  • Smith, Bernard, The 40 Knot Sailboat, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., Publishers, New York NY, 1963, 140 pp, 52 illustrations. Library of Congress No. 63-18980

    • References

    Bernard Smith (sailboat designer) Wikipedia
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