Bernard Smith (sailboat designer)
Bernard Smith (1910 – February 12, 2010) was an US rocket scientist and speed sailboat designer, father of the Aerohydrofoil sailboat concept.
Life
Smith was born in New York City, to Jewish Russian immigrants.[1] 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,[2] serving at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and later at the Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren ,[3] 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.[4]
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
- ↑ Dahlgren leader Smith, 99, dies on fredericksburg.com
- ↑ Ex-Dahlgren scientist's designs lead to sailing record on fredericksburg.com
- ↑ Mr Smith's Amazing Sailboats at the Wayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009) on Geocities
- ↑ THE BOAT:CONCEPT on the Vestas Sailrocket web site.
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