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The magazine for those working in design, construction, and repairNUMBER 74DECEMBER/JANUARY2002$5.95 U.S.DESIGNER/BUILDER PAUL BIEKERPROCESS CONTROLWAVE PIERCERS AND FAST CATSINTEGRAL TANKS
Bieker's BoatsForm flows from function for Seattle-based designer Paul Bieker.No matter what size the boat. Or boat part.by Steven CallahanI" want to take things to their logicalconclusion, and sometimes that doesn'tlook like what you're used to seeing."Designer Paul Bieker's statement ideallysuits the International 14 (4.2m) racingdinghy, a venerable one-design developmentclass. Despite its short length, acontemporary International 14 can reachspeeds exceeding 20 knots, by whichtime the boat is little more than a rigjoined to an underwater foil. Bieker'sboats currently dominate this still competitivescene. Right now he is workingin Annapolis, Maryland, with Bruce FarrYacht Design on the Oracle-sponsoredAmerica's Cup campaign, where Bieker68 PROFESSIONAL BOATBUILDERis very much involved with the engineeringand finite element analysis(FEA) of the new yacht's structure.Bieker grew up in Portland, Oregon,sailing big boats. After he graduatedhigh school, his family meanderedthrough the South Pacific for a year anda half on a Swan 48. When others persuadedhim that, as he says, "it wasmore practical to design buildings thanboats," Bieker headed for Rhode IslandSchool of Design, but within two yearstraded the practical for the nautical atthe University of California/Berkeley'snaval architecture program.In the mid-1980s, Bieker joined thepractice of the late West Coast designerGary Mull, who was using AutoYachtsoftware to draw hulls. At that time,says Bieker, "you'd put the printoutunder your vellum and trace it. It wasnot standard practice to draw a boat bycomputer."Soon, however, Bieker moved toSeattle to design ships and other largecommercial vessels at Guido Perla andAssociates. Ship-design firms of the daywere working with UNIX-based systemsemploying expensive hardware. By contrast,"for a 240' [73.2m] fishing boat, wewere writing our own CAD [computeraideddesign] programs that ran on PCs
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