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John Illingworth
Often called the founding father of modern ocean racing, John Illingworth’s speciality was the design of rigs and deck plans, and maximizing a yacht’s interior space. An outstanding ocean racing skipper, he was an early experimenter with the masthead cutter rig, and was also a strong advocate for building ocean racers smaller, lighter, and less expensively.
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E. G. Van de Stadt, Laurent Giles and John Illingworth “Stormvogel”
Van de Stadt, Giles, Illingworth “Stormvogel” Specifications:
LOA: 74’6″ / 22.73m * LOD: 74’6″ / 22.73m * LWL: 59’04 / 18.10m * Beam: 16’00 / 4.87m * Draft: 9’06 / 2.92m * Ballast: 29,000 lbs * Displacement: 62,000 lbs * Sail Area: 2,460 sq ft * Design Number: 17 * Hull material: Bruynzeel Plywood * Rig: Yawl * Designer: Collaboration – Hull: Van de Stadt, Construction Plans: Giles, Sailplan: Illingworth * Built by: Lamtico yard, Stellenbosch SA * Year Built: 1961 * Restored By: * Current Name: Stormvogel * Original Owner: Kess Bruynzeel * Contract Cost: * Current Owner: * Sail Number:
Known Racing History:
1961 – Fastnet Race – Line Honours (Stormvogel Designer Ricus van de Stadt Crew) 1962 – Buenos Aries-Rio Race Winner 1964 – Bermuda Race – Line Honours 1964 – Trans-Pacific Race- Line Honours 1965 – Sidney-Hobart Race – Line Honours 1966 – China Sea Race – Line Honours
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Feared by ocean racers throughout the world in the 1960s was a design collaboration between 3 designers. E. G. Van de Stadt drew the hull lines, John Illingworth, the Sailplan, with Laurent Giles, construction details and general oversight. The collaboration was formed because The Van de Stadt Zaandam office, had absolutely no time available to develop the construction plan in great detail.
The owner, Kess Bruynzeel, decided to have the yacht built by his own company, Lamtico, in Stellenbosch, South Africa, using his revolutionary new product Bruynzeel plywood (“Hechthout”). Stormvogel’s hull was comprised of four layers of mahogany (total thickness 1.125″) glued using the newly-developed water-resistant synthetic resin glue and nailed together over longitudinal stringers on bulkheads. The resulting product was the world’s first Ultra-Light and Maxi-Boat sailing yacht, winning numerous races worldwide.
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Captain John Holden Illingworth (1903 – 7 March 1980) was an English naval engineer in the Royal Navy who achieved fame as a yacht racer and yacht designer. Described on his death as "the father of post-war offshore sailing racing", he held most of the senior positions in British yachting and pioneered several innovations in the sport.
In pre-war England Illingworth was a Royal Navy officer serving in submarine s. In his leisure time, he designed sailing boats and raced offshore. During World War II he served as a captain in the Navy.
In 1945, after the end of the war, Illingworth was in Australia , organising repairs in Sydney for the British Pacific Fleet . He was invited to join other yachtsmen in a cruise to Hobart in Tasmania, which he promptly suggested should be a race. Illingworth skippered his newly acquired yacht Rani to win both on elapsed time and on handicap. The Sydney to Hobart Race has since become one of the great offshore yacht races.
Back in England, Illingworth stayed with the navy, commanding a naval air station. He became Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club , and in 1947 he launched the boat which made his name: Myth of Malham .
Myth of Malham
Myth of Malham was a 37feet sloop built at Greenock , designed by Laurent Giles to Illingworth's specifications. In a radical departure from the norms of the time, Myth of Malham was of light displacement, with short overhangs in contrast to the elongated overhangs of other yachts. Other innovations included a masthead rig , in which the forestay is carried all the way to the head of the mast, rather than terminating lower down the mast as on the fractional rig s which were the norm at the time. The rating rules at the time attached less significance to the area of headsails than of the mainsail , so the masthead rig effectively gave the boat "free" sail area.
Myth of Malham won the Fastnet Race in 1947 and 1949, and in 1957 was part of the winning team for the first Admiral's Cup .
"Gipsy Moth IV" was a 54-foot ketch he designed, in 1964, for Sir Frances Chichester. Its purpose was for a singled-handed circumnavigation. As described in Chichester's book Gipsy Moth Circles The World (Coward-McCann, Inc NY), she was an ill-mannered lady.
Junior Offshore Group
Illingworth believed that offshore racing could be conducted safely in boats which were much smaller, lighter and simpler than was the norm at the time. Shortly after the launch of Myth of Malham , he worked with Laurent Giles to create the RNSA 24 class of yachts, at 32feet LOA and 24feet LWL , with a displacement of 4.3LT. In 1950, he was a founding member and elected the first president of the Junior Offshore Group , an offshore racing club catering for smaller yachts than the Royal Ocean Racing Club allowed at the time. [1]
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Captain John Holden Illingworth (1903 – 7 March 1980) was an English naval engineer in the Royal Navy who achieved fame as a yacht racer and yacht designer.
Often called the founding father of modern ocean racing, John Illingworth's speciality was the design of rigs and deck plans, and maximizing a yacht's interior space.
John Illingworth. 1903 — 1980. Often called the founding father of modern ocean racing, John Illingworth’s speciality was the design of rigs and deck plans, and maximizing a yacht’s interior space.
John Illingworth and Angus Primrose. The Maïca design. In 1958 John Illingworth opened his own yacht design business, in partnership with Angus Primrose. Together they created some of the most attractive and weatherly boats of the era.
John Illingworth often collaborated with other designers before buying a yacht building company and then teaming up with Angus Primrose. Together they produced a series of groundbreaking designs before Illingworth retired, leaving Primrose to continue on his own and move into the world of GRP production boats.
Feared by ocean racers throughout the world in the 1960s was a design collaboration between 3 designers. E. G. Van de Stadt drew the hull lines, John Illingworth, the Sailplan, with Laurent Giles, construction details and general oversight.
Capt. John Illingworth, a noted English yachtsman and yacht designer, died on March 7 at Cannes in southern France near his retirement home in Nice. He was 76 years old.
With a site that has been created with the assistance of an international group of classic yacht enthusiasts we value your input and with your help we strive to make CYI more up-to-date and more informative than ever.
Captain John Holden Illingworth (1903 – 7 March 1980) was an English naval engineer in the Royal Navy who achieved fame as a yacht racer and yacht designer. Described on his death as "the father of post-war offshore sailing racing", he held most of the senior positions in British yachting and pioneered several innovations in the sport.
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