Colin Mudie (11 April 1926 – 11 March 2020) was an Edinburgh-born yacht designer, author, naval historian, balloonist, and advocate for the handicapped sailor.
He studied engineering at Southampton University, before working under yacht designers including
Laurent Giles
John Laurent Giles (1901–1969) was an English naval architect who was particularly famous for his sailing yachts. He and his company, Laurent Giles & Partners Ltd, have designed more than 1400 boats from cruisers and racing yachts to megayachts. ...
and
Uffa Fox
Uffa Fox CBE (15 January 1898 – 26 October 1972) was an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast, responsible for a number of innovations in boat design. Not afraid of courting controversy or causing offence, he is remembered for his ec ...
. He then set up his own firm.
[
He received the award of RDI (Royal Designer for Industry) for Small craft/ naval in 1995.]
Yachts
Mudie is particularly celebrated for his range of boat designs, including motorsailers, small sailing cruiser/racers, luxury yachts
A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts, but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts, ranging from to ...
, and tall ships
A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigging, rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a r ...
. Among the tall ship designs are examples for crews which include both handicapped and able-bodied crew members.
Motorsailers
Mudie designed the early range of Hardy motorsailers.
Cruiser/racers
Mudie's cruiser/racer yacht
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designs include:[
*SUNSPOT - 1972
*WING 25 - 1963
]
Luxury yachts
Mudie designed a number of luxury yachts
A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts, but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts, ranging from to ...
, including:
*''Zinat Al-Bihaar'' Omani RYS 1988
*''Ashena'' built by Wadia
The Wadia family is a Parsi family from Surat, India, currently based in Mumbai, India. The family rose to wealth in the mid-1700s as shipbuilders serving the British East India Company as the latter established its sway over India.
During ...
2006
*''Passionata'' built by Astilleros Udondo 1973
Tall ships
*The 'Little Brigs' ''TS Bob Allen'' and ''TS Caroline Allen''
* INS ''Sudarshini'' (A77) is a sister ship of INS ''Tarangini'' (A75); three-masted commissioned 1997
* INS ''Tarangini'' (A75) constructed in Goa - design by Colin Mudie, launched 1 December 1995.
* KLD ''Tunas Samudera'' training ship, Royal Malaysian Navy -launched in 1989. Colin Mudie also designed a sister ship (the ''Young Endeavour'')
* STS ''Young Endeavour'' (Australian Young Endeavour Youth Scheme) laid down by Brooke Marine (which became Brooke Yachts during the vessel's construction) Built 1986-1988
* STS ''Lord Nelson'' for the Jubilee Sailing Trust
Jubilee Sailing Trust was a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which operated the purpose-built three-masted barques STS Lord Nelson, STS ''Lord Nelson'' and SV Tenacious, SV ''Tenacious'', both specifically designed for the physical ...
(JST), launched 1986
* TS ''Royalist'' Groves and Guttridge, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. launched on 3 August 1971
Replicas
* ''Matthew'', a replica of John Cabot
John Cabot ( ; 1450 – 1499) was an Italians, Italian navigator and exploration, explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England, Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known Europe ...
's 15th century caravel
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, the ''Matthew'', 1996. Built at Redcliffe Wharf
Redcliffe may refer to:
Places Australia
* Redcliffe Peninsula, a peninsula and suburban region in the Brisbane metropolitan area, Queensland
** Redcliffe, Queensland, the central suburb of Redcliffe City
** City of Redcliffe, the former Local Go ...
by the Bristol Classic Boat Company
The Bristol Classic Boat Company is a boat building and restoration company based at Bristol's Floating Harbour, England.
The company has its origins in Storms'l Services a group of shipwrights who formed in about 1986 to undertake the complete ...
.
*''Brendan'', a 36' (15m) replica of the leather curragh
The Curragh ( ; ) is a flat open plain in County Kildare, Ireland. This area is well known for horse breeding and training. The Irish National Stud is on the edge of Kildare town, beside the Japanese Gardens. Pollardstown Fen, the larges ...
that St Brendan
Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577) is one of the early Celtic Christianity, Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is also referred to as Brendan the Navigator, Brendan the Voyager, Brendan the Anchorite, ...
is reputed to have sailed across the Atlantic in the 6th century, which Tim Severin
Timothy Severin (25 September 1940 – 18 December 2020) was a British explorer, historian, and writer. Severin was noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Founder's Medal ...
commissioned and in which he successfully completed the voyage.
Books
Mudie authored several books on boats and their history of development:
References
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British yacht designers
2020 deaths
1926 births