History
Bruce Farr first achieved acclaim as a sailboat designer in the highly competitive 18 ft Skiff class, popular in Australia and New Zealand. Farr designs won the 18ft Skiff Giltinan World title several times in the early 70s. Starting in 1973, Bruce was able to focus full time on designing sailboats. Another New Zealander active as both a designer and sailor in the 18ft fleet, Russel Bowler, a civil engineer by training, introduced the fibreglass-foam sandwich construction technique to the 18 ft class in 1977 with a boat 1/3 lighter and possessing a lower wetted area than the competition. Starting in 1976, Bowler provided structural engineering services to Bruce as a consultant, and joined him full time in 1980. Within a year, they moved the office to Annapolis in order to get better access to the northern hemisphere yacht market.
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