Looking for info on Ken Smith of Grand Banks fame

[mtlake]

Hi I am looking for info on Ken Smith the designer of the early Grand Banks. Does anyone know if he is alive or if his company still exist? Any leads would be great the Name Ken Smith is hard to search. Thanks Steve

[Wild Dingo]

Contact Information:
Grand Banks Yachts Ltd.
136 Johns St.
Southport, CT 06490
(203)254-8044
Fax: (203)254-8041
E-Mail:

Theres also a Grand Banks owners group at this location...

http://www.psgbowners.org/

And then if your into schooners like I am theres also...

http://www.schoonermuseum.org/

Which is the Grand Banks Schooner museum... and to quote the site


"It is the only original Grand Banks fishing vessel that is still fully operational, and seaworthy."Then again of course you could always email through the grandbanks site and maybe they can direct you...

http://www.grandbanks.com/

Grand Banks Yachts Offices:
26 Pearl Street
Norwalk, CT 06850
Tel: 203-845-0023
Fax: 203-845-0024

101 Columbia, Suite 185
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Tel: 949-362-4952
Fax: 949-362-5311

111 First Ave S, Suite 205
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: 206-267-0529
Fax: 707-788-3694

For service related questions, please contact: service@grandbanks.com

As you said a search for Ken Smith was a real pain lots and lots and lots of Ken Smiths in this old world of ours!

Good luck mtlake :cool:

Take it easy
Shane

[Thad]

I didn't know about the GB connection. I am well along in an extensive rebuild of a Kenneth Smith sportfisherman built by Goudy and Stephens at East Boothbay in 1958. The plans show him in Fairfield, Conn. and East Boothbay. He is dead, but I believe his son is a professor in VT somewhere. It would be interesting to know more.