Germán Frers

German Frers ( born July 4, 1941 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine Yachtkonstukteur and one named after him design office.

Career

He began his career as a draftsman in his father's engineering office at age 15 while still in school. In 1958 he designed a first 10-meter racing yacht. In 1965 he went to New York for the yacht design office Sparkman & Stephens (S & S). During the three years of collaboration he rose to within the company as chief designer and designed a series of models, which later became classics in their respective yacht classes. In 1968, German Frers S & S, lived and worked on in New York and designed for American customers yachts, Beau Geste, Wizard of Paget, Quest of Paget and Simba.

Argentina

In 1970 he returned to Buenos Aires and joined the 1928 founded by his father design office. With the yacht Matrero, the first draft after his return, he had great success in 1971 with the Argentine team at the Admiral 's Cup in England waters off Cowes. The yacht made ​​the Argentine design internationally acceptable. The following Admiral 's Cup, the Argentine Yacht recluta reached from the pen of German Frers second place against the strongest international competitors. Then its construction, the U.S. yacht Scaramouche won the winter regattas in Florida (USA ) and reached four wins in the Onion Patch Trophy, the American counterpart of the European Admiral 's Cup. With this construction, German Frers had an international breakthrough. About 500 different successful yacht designs to his credit for European, American, Japanese, Australian and New Zealand customers.

Europe

1989 German Frers went to Italy to direct the Moro di Venezia design team for the challenge of the 27th America's Cup. His design won the first world championship in the newly created America's Cup class in May 1991. Its design set the parameters and trends for all challengers and defenders in the future. Il Moro di Venezia V won the Louis Vuitton Cup in the final against New Zealand and earned the right to be the first European yacht since 1934 to challenge for the America 's Cup. After the experience in the America's Cup German Frers opened his own design office in Italy, under the direction of his son, German Frers Jr., in order to Kooperatiopn can meet the demand of European markets better with offices in Spain and Argentina.

German Frers highly successful designs are still to be found on all major international regattas. His collaboration extends from Nautor 's Swan (Finland), Hallberg -Rassy (Sweden) and Wally Yachts (Monaco ) to the Volvo Ocean Race Yacht Designs.

Yacht Designs from the office German Frers

  • Scaramouche I and II
  • Noryema IX and X
  • Recluta
  • Hitchhiker
  • Retaliation I and II
  • Ragamuffin I and II
  • Congere
  • Bribon IV and V ( owner: King Juan Carlos of Spain)
  • Nitissima
  • Enteara
  • Volcano
  • Kodiak
  • Flyer II
  • Bumble Bee
  • Guia 2000
  • About 25 maxi yacht designs including: boomerang
  • Kialoa V
  • Ondine VIII
  • Matador
  • Il Moro di Venezia I, II and III
  • Rebecca
  • Pacific

This has become known racing yachts have won major trophies including Admiral 's Cup, Onion Patch, Bermuda Race, Transpacific Race, Whitbread Round the World Race and many more.

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