Dick Gibbs

1929 – 2009

American boat builder and designer best known for his partnership with Rod Macalpine-Downie. The Gibbs Boat Company was located near Toledo Ohio. (destroyed by fire 1n 1961 and then re-established in La Salle Michigan.) Besides a number of other boats, Gibbs was building a number of racing catamarans and it was probably at this time that the partnership began. Gibbs Boat Co. was purchased by MFG sometime around 1972 and Gibbs became the head of the SailMFG division. Gibbs also had his own sail loft where the sails for a number of the MFG models were made. After SailMFG was closed and sold in about 1979, Gibbs and Macalpine-Downie developed a number of boats for Chrysler Marine. The most successful of these was the BUCCANEER 18. The 2 worked together until MacAlpine-Downies untimely death in 1986.\n

Designs (20)

Name	LOA (ft)	First Built	Last Built	Rig
BANDIT 15	15.25	1972		Fractional Sloop
BANDIT 17	17	1972		Fractional Sloop
BARRACUDA 13	13	1964		Cat (unstayed)
BUCCANEER 18	18	1968		Fractional Sloop
COPPERHEAD 14	13.75	1970		Gunter
DAGGER 14 (CHRYSLER)	14.5	1976		Cat (Marconi)
DINGO 15	14.92	1963		Cat (rotating spar)
GLOUCESTER 15	15	1987		Fractional Sloop
GLOUCESTER 18	18	1985		Fractional Sloop
MAN-O-WAR 15 (CHRYSLER)	15	1964	1980	Cat (Marconi)
MUSKETEER 17	16.5	1973		Frac. Sloop (Rotating Spar)
MUTINEER 15	15	1972		Fractional Sloop
PHOENIX 18	18	1964		Frac. Sloop (Rotating Spar)
PIRATEER 13 (CHRYSLER)	13	1974		Fractional Sloop
SHARK CATAMARAN	20	1963		Frac. Sloop (Rotating Spar)
SIDEWINDER 16	15.5	1969		Fractional Sloop
STARWIND 15	15	1984	1987	Fractional Sloop
STARWIND 18	18	1982		Fractional Sloop
UPSTART 16	16.5	1967		Fractional Sloop
WHIP 17	17	1974	1975	Fractional Sloop