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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ROGER MARSHALL
For eight years award winning author Roger Marshall has been the technical editor for Soundings
magazine where his articles are read by about 250,000 people each month. Marshall’s
experience as a writer spans for many years. His work has appeared worldwide as well as the
New York Times, Daily Telegraph (UK), Sports illustrated, Sail, Cruising World, Motor Boating
and sailing, Yachting and many other newspapers and magazines. Marshall is also the author of
twelve marine related books, two of which were translated into Italian and Spanish. His last book
All about Powerboats was published by International Marine in the spring of 2002. He has
another book Rough Weather Seamanship due in the fall of 2003 and is currently working on a
new book, Elements of Powerboat Design for International Marine.
But writing is only a small part of Marshall’s talents. He is also a designer of boats, both power
and sail. After completing a program in small craft design at Southampton College in England,
Marshall, who still holds a British passport, moved to the United States in 1973 to take a position
at Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. in New York. He worked there as a designer for nearly 5 years and
then left to establish his own yacht design studio in Jamestown, Rhode Island. As an
independent designer he has designed a wide range of boats and was project engineer for the
Courageous Challenge for the 1987 America’s Cup campaign in Australia. In 1999 one of his
cruising yacht designs was selected for inclusion in Ocean Cruising magazine’s American Yacht
Review.
Marshall has extensive sailing and boating experience. He has sailed at all levels including 12
metres and Admiral’s cup boats (once with the British team on Qualio III, another time for the
British team aboard Prime Minister Heath’s Morni