Bruce Farr

Bruce Farr

Bruce K. Farr OBE (born 1949 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a designer of racing and cruising yachts. Farr began building boats at 13 in Warkworth near Auckland,New Zealand. His first boats were plywood hard chine Moth class designs. He later designed and built variants of Cherubs and especially Flying 18s. His early designs were built in plywood with focus on light weight with good planning shapes. By his late teens he was designing successful small lightweight keel boats.