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Frers design: The family dynasty behind some of the world’s most beautiful yachts

• December 2, 2019

Germán Frers and his son Mani are among the most popular and revered yacht designers of their era. Tim Jeffery finds out what makes them tick

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It was the economist J K Galbraith who said that there was “no absolute standard of beauty. That,” he added, “is precisely what makes its pursuit so interesting.” That interest in the pursuit of beauty is something that Germán Frers and his son Mani have spent their working lives striving to attain. In the process they have created some of the most revered yachts and are among the most admired designers of their era.

“It’s a gift in a way,” says Germán about the felicitous lines that mark out a Frers design. The essence of his work is in the emotion-stirring aesthetics. “It comes naturally,” he says. “But it’s also a belief I have that design should transcend generations. It’s easy to do something fashionable, something that has momentary success but doesn’t last very long.”

Mani tells the story of being in St Tropez last year when his father was racing Fjord III , the classic 50ft yacht built in 1947. “He said: ‘Come and see this boat. It was one I really loved as a kid’. So I arrived in St Tropez and it was full of white classic yachts. I didn’t know where Fjord was but I picked this one boat out straightaway. So there is some sort of connection. It was the first time I thought there might be something in genes and inheritance.”

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Just as one line – the sheer – can define a boat, so it connects Germán and Mani. “I discussed sheer lines with my father and we see things exactly the same way. Yet he never taught me that. As a kid I was simply picking up a pencil and was in the design office every day, surrounded by photos of beautiful yachts and hearing all sorts of stories at the dinner table at home. There are plenty of guys in the office yet no one picks up the sheer that my father and I can draw.”

And how they can draw. Both Frers are responsible for some of the world’s most desirable yachts and Germán, now 76, has no thoughts of winding down. “I am not planning to retire,” he says, adding that he might “go gaga” if he did. “I’ve really enjoyed my profession and there’s nothing I’d rather be doing.” Besides, the demand for his work is undiminished, particularly from clients of his own generation.

Mani is similarly committed to his craft. “We don’t realise the time it takes because we love what we do,” he says. “Then there is having the eye for it. We can work on a boat, review it, say it fits the brief but decide it is not the complete package. So we – how do you say it? – pull our sleeves up and do it again.”

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Mani and Germán now work less together: they are so close that they don’t need to. Across three generations the Frers family has been responsible for 1,300 designs. When Germán Sr was Germán Jr, his father was already a prolific designer in Argentina.

Back in the 1920s his father designed his first yacht, Fjord . Yachting was a nascent sport in Argentina, based mostly on imported International Rule inspired boats from the US or UK. Fjord was a Colin Archer style heavy double-ender, and it was Germán Sr’s idea of a proper yacht for ocean voyaging.

He later explored how plywood could be utilised, coming to similar conclusions as Ricus van de Stadt, Dutch boatbuilding pioneer. “He ended up drawing long waterline, hard chine, light displacement types,” explains Mani. “That was a huge step.”

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The influence of his grandfather and father is manifest: “My father took over my grandfather’s mantle and made beautiful, fast boats of every size. To keep this tradition and rate of development you have to go at an intense rate. But this must be done from a very solid base.”

The Frers name came to international notice in 1954 when one of his designs, the 40ft Trucha 11 came 2nd overall in the Bermuda Race. A string of successes followed for a series of Frers-designed and owned yachts with the name Fjord .

His son was equally drawn to design and at just 16 drafted his first boat. It was for a friend of his father who had returned to Argentina from the US excited about the new material glass fibre. “He wanted a design and my father said: ‘I’ll let Germán Jr do it. Just go ahead’.”

Shamanna , a Frers Nautor Swan 115. Photo: Kurt Arrigo

The 10m yawl was launched in 1958 and represented the younger Germán’s ideals: flush deck, clean lines, aerodynamic with a rounded deck-edge. It represented a big step away from the light, chined boats his father was drawing which, though popular, were not treated kindly by the CCA (Cruising Club of America) rule, which evolved into the IOR (International Offshore) rule.

The younger Frers studied naval architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and then worked at Sparkman & Stephens in the United States from 1965 to 1968. The ability to fashion a beautiful yacht that was optimised to a rating was something that Frers honed while working at S&S before setting up on his own in Manhattan.

In time, Frers returned to Buenos Aires to run the studio his father started back in 1925. The 1971 and 1973 yachts Matrero and Reculta were making names for themselves in the Argentine Admiral’s Cup teams and the son was now established in his own right.

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By the mid-1980s he had become one of the most successful designers of the IOR era. The yacht names still resonate – Ron Amey’s Noryema , Ted Turner’s Tenacious King Juan Carlos’s Bribon – to name but a few.

Frers’s name was synonymous with success on the maxi circuit from the early days of Herbert van Karajan’s Helisar a, through to Bevin Koeppel’s Congere , John Kahlbetzer’s Bumblebee , Huey Long’s Ondine , Bill Koch’s Matador , Raul Gardini’s Il Moro di Venezia and Jim Kilroy’s Kialoa . One of his most famous designs was Conny van Rietschoten’s Flyer II , which won the 1981-82 Whitbread Round the World Race .

In the late 1980s Mani came to England to complete the renowned yacht design course at the Southampton Institute. After graduating in 1992, he went to Milan, where his father had opened a second office to service the 1992 Il Moro di Venezia America’s Cup  campaign. Germán had been travelling monthly from Argentina but with Mani now in Italy he could remain mostly in Buenos Aires. This is largely how father and son have worked for the past 20 years.

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The different generations have different working practices as well as different offices. Germán has a long-standing and close-knit team, including designer Nestor Fourcade, who has been with him for 42 years. Mani, by contrast, uses a global network of 40-plus specialists, relationships built up especially during his time as designer, with his father, in 2000 with the Prada/Luna Rossa America’s Cup campaign and as sole designer in 2003 and 2007 for Sweden’s Victory Challenge. In an age when corporate teams had taken over, Mani was probably the last named solo designer.

Each has a different way of working, too. Germán is close to his team in Buenos Aires –“It’s bit like those old marriages!” – while Mani admits to being happier at the drawing table, pencil in hand creating lines, or running a design through advanced software programs rather than communicating between offices.

But both Germán and Mani have worked on numerous projects together. “To have Mani make a success of it in his own right is very nice,”says Germán.“As long as he is happy, we continue with our good relationship and continue to cooperate on a couple of projects, I am happy. I thought that we would continue to work as I did with my father but I recognise there are difficulties in that. Different generations do things in a different way. It was similar for me.”

German Frers on Rebecca : “We had to bend over backwards to please the owner, to the point the boat was started without a bow because we were still discussing whether to do a plumb bow, a long overhang or something in between. To my regret, I gave up a little too much to the client… a concession to classical aesthetics.”

The family thread remains a strong tie between the three generations. Germán has reworked (for modern construction methods) a 20m ketch that was designed by his father but never built due to wartime material shortages. She was Recluta II and will employ the contemporary rig and gear saved from the original Recluta , which was lost in a grounding.

In all there are over 10,000 yachts bearing three generations of the Frers marque. It is a hallmark of Germán and Mani that they eschew self-promotion, despite having created some of the most innovative and revered yachts of the modern era.

Between them, the body of work includes Horst Holmberg’s 1981 ketch Volador , which stood at the cusp of modern systems taming large rigs for small crews and Gianni Agnelli’s 1987 Extra-Beat , which heralded the trend for high performance daysailers.

German Frers on Stealth : “The brief was: ‘I want a boat that will give me pleasure. It’s going to be called Stealth . It’s going to be black with black sails.’ It was high-performance, good looking and pointed the way towards a new type of yacht.” Photo: Gilles Martin Raget

Other landmark designs have been Jim Clark’s 155ft sloop Hyperion , built in 1996, a fully networked vessel that had 60km of fibre optic cabling to her self-learning computer controlled systems. Then Agnelli’s Extra Beat follow-up, the 1995 Stealth – 98ft of pure speed and able to hold 30-knot speeds with minimal crew and scarcely more than a head, a sofa and means to boil a kettle.

One of the most beautiful designs is the 140ft classic ketch Rebecca , commissioned by owner Charles Butt in 1999 and still referenced 20 years later as one of the most soul-stirring and elegant yachts afloat.

Frank Gehry, the architect, chose to work with Germán Frers on his own, slightly eccentric flush-decked Foggy , launched in 2015, something that shows Frers is appreciated as much by the cognoscenti as by owners of humbler production boats. Asked about their popularity, Mani says: “Clients come to us because they could not find what they liked on the market. For them, none of the existing yachts were seakindly or efficient in terms of drag.”

The distinctive Foggy , was a commission for architect Frank Gehry

Many clients come for motorboats, too, often from a sailing background. In 2017 Baltic Yachts launched the first MY78, for which Mani was the designer. It utilises lightweight composite construction and Mani believes it is a breakthrough combination of low displacement, high performance, fuel efficient, seakindly hull forms.

Germán Frers says all the miles that three generations have logged at sea go to shape yachts that are not just practical and efficient but sensuous too. “My father once said to me that ‘between the faces of Sophia Loren and San Martin [an 18th Century Argentine war hero] is only a few millimetres of difference, but the effect is very different’.” It is with these subtleties that the Frers, grandfather, father and son, have excelled.

First published in the December 2017 edition of Yachting World.

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It was the economist J K Galbraith who said that there was “no absolute standard of beauty. That,” he added, “is precisely what makes its pursuit so interesting.” That interest in the pursuit of beauty is something that Germán Frers and his son Mani have spent their working lives striving to attain. In the process they have created some of the most revered yachts and are among the most admired designers of their era.

“It’s a gift in a way,” says Germán about the felicitous lines that mark out a Frers design. The essence of his work is in the emotion-stirring aesthetics. “It comes naturally,” he says. “But it’s also a belief I have that design should transcend generations. It’s easy to do something fashionable, something that has momentary success but doesn’t last very long.”

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A Kind of Magic

Words: emma bamford | image: zelmira frers.

I’ve been writing about sailing for more than a decade now, and the one astonishing fact that stood out to me beyond any other is that when the beautiful 42.4 metre Spirit of Tradition ketch Rebecca was first being designed, she had no bow.

Even the most confirmed landlubber understands that a boat with no bow cannot float, but when the project began, her designer and naval architect Germán Frers and the owner were still in discussion about the final shape of the bow. Unperturbed, Frers started work without one.

Looking at Rebecca today (and considering her class-winning performances in both St Barths and Antigua) you’d have no clue. Her long lines are graceful, natural, streamlined. It’s no wonder why one client hailed Frers as a “famous magician”.

Born in Argentina, Frers followed in the wake of his father, Germán Frers Snr, who started designing yachts in his home country in 1925. Frers Jnr’s first design was a flush-deck 10 metre yawl, Mirage , penned in 1958 when he was 17. After studying Naval Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and undertaking an apprenticeship with Sparkman & Stephens in New York, he returned to Buenos Aires to take the helm of the family business, Frers Naval Architecture and Engineering, in 1970. Where the father favoured long waterlines and hard chines, the son was drawn to flush decks and aerodynamic lines with rounded deck edges, and this helped him establish a name for himself honing IOR designs, utilising rule loopholes to maximise ratings and produce winners.

His career, spanning eight decades, has been and still is, phenomenal. Frers has pulled countless racers, cruisers and cruiser-racers out of his hat, everything from Maxi Worlds and Louis Vuitton winners to cruising yachts with serious bluewater credentials. At the upper end of the spectrum, he has designed 145 Superyachts and been the naval architect of 156. There have been collaborations with the top yards on, for example, 30.5 metre Wally Y3K , 43 metre Royal Huisman Sea Eagle and 44 metre Persico Marine-built Kauris IV . For Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli he designed the 28 metre black-hulled, black-sailed sloop Stealth , capable of holding 30knots.

And on top of quality, there is quantity. You’d be hard pressed to find a sailor who hasn’t stepped aboard something he drew; through his work for production boatbuilders such as Nautor’s Swan, Hylas, Hallberg Rassy, Beneteau and catamaran builder Ocean Quality Systems there are thousands of German Frers-penned hulls afloat – more than 1,000 of them Swans. To date, with his, his father’s and his own son’s work (his son Mani runs the Milan studio while Germán remains in Argentina), there are more than 10,000 Frers-designs on the world’s seas.

While each boat’s purpose differs, there is a signature clean style to all, with nothing excessive, nothing wasted. His style is “efficient, special, harmonious, based on experience and intuition with good results,” he sums up. It is a methodology that evidently has huge and long-lasting appeal. Even in his 80s, Frers is still in demand, still designing. “I am working on a healthy number of projects, some private and others for companies like Nautor Swan, Hallberg Rassy, Sirena Marine, OQS, Queen Long Marine.”

Given such an illustrious career, there must be plenty of memorable highs hidden up his sleeve. Yet when asked to reveal his proudest career moment, Frers turns diffident. “I have never thought of sailing or my career in those terms. I do enjoy my work a lot and I think (and I hope) I get a lot of endorphins out of it,” he says, before adding wryly: “Needless to say I have also made a good living out of it!” What also gets him up in the morning is “the joy of living, a nice sunny day, the gauchos waiting for a horse ride, and many reasons more”.

Sailing for Frers is anything and everything, from cruising to joining sea trials of new designs to racing. When racing, his preference these days is for classic yachts, often in the Med. “[In] a fleet of rather traditional yachts in a class where I found a niche that allows me to be relatively competitive and have fun sailing with old friends, their sons or relatives and their own family,” he says. “I also sail and race in my home waters, San Fernando, San Isidro and Buenos Aires [and] in the Rio de la Plata and the coast of Uruguay: Colonia, Montevideo, all the way to Punta del Este.”

If he could conjure up his own dream yacht it would, of course, comprise all those design elements he listed as his signature style. “It would be a fast, elegant, comfortable, modern sailing Frers design, named Heroina ,” he says. He’d take his family cruising in her. “My favourite areas are generally in the Med – Italy, Spain and France or the Aegean Sea and the Turkish southern coast. Another fantastic place I like very much and go as often as possible, is Brazil, all the way from Florianopolis to Cabo Frio.”

With thoughts turning to the future, no conversation is possible these days without mention of AI. For Frers, advances in technology will hopefully bring good outcomes. “Yacht design has been going through a slow evolution for a couple of hundred years and it has been speeding up and improving for the last 30 years thanks to technological tools and means which have allowed, in conjunction with modern materials, big steps forward,” he says. “Now we have to see what AI would do for yacht design, if it would allow us to continue enjoying the work, sailing the way we do today.”

But, I wonder, will AI ever be able to do what Frers has done: design a yacht without a bow – and make her sail like a charm?

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Preparing for the turn of events that will rotate the hull of what is expected to become the world's ... [+] largest sloop, Project 410 sits in the construction hall at Royal Huisman's yard in Vollenhove, The Netherlands. The Royal Huisman project 410 overall concept, exterior design, and naval architecture are from Frers Design in Milan, Italy.

Yachtbuilding giant Royal Huisman is quietly working on a big project — a 280 foot (85-meter) single masted sailing yacht — that met a milestone recently. The hull was turned from its upside down build position to right side up as progress on the sloop continues. Project 410 is so large that Royal Huisman had to extend hall #2 to accommodate the length of the hull.

Upon completion it is slated to become the world's largest sloop. Just know, however, that Project 410 is being followed closely on its heels by another super-sized sailing yacht, Project 411. Also currently under construction at the Vollenhove yard, both builds are expected to take their places in the top ten largest sailing yachts on the planet.

Four synchronized cranes lifted and turned the main section of the hull of Project 410 at Royal ... [+] Huisman's construction hall #2 in Vollenhove.

Royal Huisman announced the project at the elite sailing event, the St. Barths Bucket Regatta, in 2022. The builder is credited for four sailing yachts on the world's top ten largest sailing yacht list: Athena, Sea Eagle, Project 410, and a second project currently under construction in Vollenhove, Project 411.

The project is being called a co-creation between the owner and his team, Frers Design, and Wetzels Brown. While Royal Housman's in-house team, including expert co-makers, engineered the design, they engaged Frers Design, Milan, for the overall concept, exterior design, and naval architecture. Wetzels Brown, Amsterdam, has been selected for interiors, and Rondal was chosen to design the rig and integrated sailing system. Rondal, a Royal Huisman sister company, is described as one of the sailing world's most experienced and innovative superyacht composite mast and rig builders.

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Nearing the completion of the turn, the topside of the main section of the hull of Royal Huisman's ... [+] Project 410 sees daylight for the first time.

As the main part of the upside down aluminum hull moved out of the construction hall, the 200 foot (61 meter) section showed its true scale. Two accommodation levels were visible. Four cranes were employed to perform the turn, lifting and rotating the massive structure in a seamless maneuver. The right-side-up hull section then retreated back into construction hall #2 where it will remain through completion.

Upon the turning of Project 410's aluminum hull, Royal Huisman CEO Jan Timmerman stated, "Each super-sized yacht exemplifies the advantages of large sailing yachts over motoryachts. These include the thrill of hoisting sails, cutting through waves, and advanced technologies that enhance comfort."

With the turning of the hull completed, Project 410 prepares to re-enter Royal Huisman's ... [+] construction hall.

Timmerman continued to emphasize the advantages of sailing yachts over power yachts, "Super-sized Royal Huisman sailing yachts can benefit from a green footprint, free wind propulsion, and an energy-neutral mode. This mode generates sufficient power for all systems and recharges batteries for silent anchoring. These features were developed by our team before the start of the build of the world’s first hybrid superyacht nearly two decades ago. This is what makes these Royal Huisman super-sized sailing yachts a testimony to the shipyard’s commitment to innovation. They will become the ultimate expression of personal freedom.”

Royal Huisman Project 410's bow section under construction in the hall, getting ready to connect ... [+] with the main hull section as part of the next stage.

After the turning of the hull, Royal Huisman's construction crew will focus on developing Project 410's onboard systems, along with outfitting and fine details. The bow section, currently in construction, will meet the main portion of the hull in the next stage of the build. Royal Huisman sister company Rondal will continue with progress on the carbon boom, mast, and integrated sailing system.

On the horizon, Royal Huisman is also working on a 264 foot (81 meter) aluminum hull performance sloop, Project 411. Malcolm McKeon is working the exterior design and Naval architecture, and GCA Architects of Barcelona is creating the interiors.

Project 411, also known as Project Noir, may not exceed Project 410 in length, but is being touted as the world's tallest sloop with a rig shooting skyward at 305 feet (93 meters). Referenced by Royal Huisman as "The ultimate expression of personal freedom," Noir was conceived by a highly experienced owner and his team as a way to enjoy the pleasure of sailing with beloved family and close friends.

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Nautor Swan delivers first hybrid sailing yacht DreamCatcher

Nautor Swan has handed the 28.3-metre DreamCatcher over to her owner. According to BOATPro , she is now anchored near the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago off the Cornish coast.

DreamCatcher is the Finnish shipyard's first hybrid sailing yacht and is set to make her worldwide debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival. The model was first revealed in December 2021 at a virtual press conference hosted by yard chief executive Giovanni Pomati.

"[Swan 88] is an entry size to the world of Maxi," Pomati said at the time. "We wanted to build a superyacht with an efficient platform, in terms of management costs [and] easiness to get the charters certifications."

Described as a "no-compromise cruiser with a racer soul", DreamCatcher has a draught of four metres, with options for a shallow-draught, telescopic and performance keel. The yacht is also designed for comfort with a maximum heeling angle of 20 degrees and sports "feminine exterior lines" penned by veteran Swan designer German Frers .

Accommodation is for 10 guests, including an owner’s cabin located forward and four guest en suite cabins. The crew area supports four crew members. Her warm, classic interiors have been styled by Misa Poggi .

Key features include a deck split into four distinctive areas, with the first three located aft and a fourth sitting forward. Aft, the guest cockpit features a new coachroof design with an integrated sprayhood, Bimini and modular benches that can be arranged in flexible configurations – from lounging to formal dining.

The manoeuvring area with the yacht’s winches is centrally positioned, while a new beach club area sits at the stern with access to the water and a large tender garage. The fourth area is described as a “sunset lounge” and sits forward of the mast.

"The Swan 88 marks an important milestone for the shipyard's production," added Pomati. "This important new model represents Swan's 360-degree essence, the DNA that for 58 years has made our boats recognisable worldwide, and we are very proud of it."

According to BOATPro , Nautor Swan has two units in the Swan 128 series currently under construction. The 39-metre model marks the shipyard's second-largest project to date.

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