Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with main offices on 5th Avenue in New York City, USA and offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a yacht and ship brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts.

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  • Die Firma Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. (S&S) wurde 1929 in New York von den beiden Brüdern Olin Stephens und Rod Stephens gemeinsam mit Drake Sparkman gegründet. Gegenstand des Unternehmens war und ist die Konstruktion von Yachten, der Handel mit Yachten und deren Versicherung.
  • Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with main offices on 5th Avenue in New York City, USA and offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a yacht and ship brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts. Their designs have won most of the major international yacht races such as the America's Cup, for several decades, including a string of victories in the Fastnet and Sydney to Hobart races. S&S has a number of custom yacht design projects as well as being designers for boat builders such as Nautor's Swan, Grand Banks Yachts, and Morris Yachts. During World War II the company was employed to design the hulls for the invaluable DUKW 'army duck' and the Ford GPA amphibious jeep. For this Roderick (Rod) Stephens Jr was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the United States army's highest civilian award.
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  • Die Firma Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. (S&S) wurde 1929 in New York von den beiden Brüdern Olin Stephens und Rod Stephens gemeinsam mit Drake Sparkman gegründet. Gegenstand des Unternehmens war und ist die Konstruktion von Yachten, der Handel mit Yachten und deren Versicherung.
  • Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with main offices on 5th Avenue in New York City, USA and offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a yacht and ship brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts.
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