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John
Reichel
1955 -
John Reichel-designed yachts have had enormous success worldwide from the America’s Cup to one-design and offshore distance racing. John has been designing winning performance yachts for almost 40 years, initially as an apprentice with Doug Peterson in the early 1980s during that firm’s domination of the IOR racing scene and then as the principal naval architect at his own firm Reichel/Pugh. His business partner, Jim Pugh who handles the sales and marketing, describes John as having “an uncanny ability to quickly grasp where art and science meet in the field of yacht design. He gets to the technological ‘sweet spot’ quickly, coming up with elegant solutions to problems that others would never recognize.” Accomplishments and Honors
Preserving America’s Sailing Legacy
Engaging Sailing’s Next Generation
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