Spotted last Sunday…..
Snoopy at the tiller!
Yes, Snoopy once helmed a prototype Carter 33 in the Åland islands, Baltic Sea. He was a very good boy!
The Carter Yacht Registry is up and running!
We’re adding yachts every day and we hope you’ll add yours!
It’s easy! Click on “Registry” in the main menu above. On the Registry page, you’ll see the yacht information form to fill out. Don’t worry if you don’t know everything about your boat. You can even upload a photo! We’ll take it from there to add your boat.
“Chapeau” to J. P. Riou for taking the initiative to research and compile an enormous amount of data on Carter yachts!
Many years ago, Dick and his family cruised the Greek islands and Turkish coast on a white Carter 33. We sailed into the harbor of the ancient village of Knidos and moored for the night. Up on deck the next morning, we were astonished to see an identical white Carter 33 moored right near us!
Dick to speak at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival
Dick will be a guest speaker at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival on Saturday, October 9th, 2021, from 14:00 – 14:45 (British Summer Time).
Dick’s talk was recorded (below). He talks a bit about how he was influenced by the wildly colorful English dinghy sailor and yacht designer, Uffa Fox.
LIVELY LADY II, the historic American TINA sister ship, is relaunched!
Huge congratulations are in order for owners Bill Hubbard and his son William on the major restoration of their TINA sister ship, LIVELY LADY II. What a classic beauty!! Dick is very appreciative of the Hubbard family’s decades’ long commitment to her upkeep.
LIVELY LADY II (ex-ANTELOPE) was actually Dick’s very first design in the United States. The original 1966 TINA was based out of the Netherlands while her American owners were temporarily living there.
And LIVELY LADY II is as fast as she is gorgeous: Bill and William Hubbard won the 2006 Bermuda Race with her and brought home…..10 trophies. That’s some serious hardware for a yacht built in 1969.
“The Accidental Designer”: new article in Seahorse Magazine
“The birth of Dick Carter Yacht Designer has a fairy tale quality to it. Winning the world’s most renowned ocean race, the Fastnet, with your first design, RABBIT. Then, being commissioned, even before that win, to create a One Tonner, TINA, and winning the One Ton Cup. With your second commission, OPTIMIST, winning the One Ton Cup again. Twice.”
Thank you Julien Everitt and Seahorse!
BENBOW: sleek and glamorous as ever
Thanks to the Yacht Club Italiano (YCI) for the recent photo of BENBOW tied up at their dock and looking very glamorous! BENBOW is the custom 65′ footer Dick designed in 1975 for the Italian industrialist Dr. Enrico Recchi. In the 1984 Giraglia, BENBOW set a course record which held for 14 years.
ESPRIT DU RUEIL: Two-time RORC Champion
ESPRIT DU RUEIL is a French TINA sister ship which won the RORC Class III Championship series in both 1967 and 1968. Magnifique!
Voilà CORIOLAN
Thanks to Philippe-Jacques Roux for this recent photo of CORIOLAN looking terrific in the Morbihan, France! A custom 54′ footer built for Christian de Galéa in 1969, CORIOLAN was Dick’s first design with fiberglass sandwich construction.
MUSTANG: WOW!
Congratulations to our good friends Philippe-Jacques Roux and his son François-Xavier on the recent refit of their Carter 37, MUSTANG, named after the spirited wild horses of the American West. Our first reaction when we saw this photo was….WOW!! MUSTANG looks sensational!! Bravo Philippe and FX!
