Robert Wilson Ball
1943 - 2022
Originally from Holland, Mr. Adriaanse got his start in the business by working for Europan designers.
In Canada, he started working with C&C in the late 1960 and stayed with the company until 1976, when he left to start his own design firm. He officially got out of the boat design business in the early 1990.
He said that the Ontario 28 was one of the first few boats he designed after leaving C&C, a fact which may help explain why it shares certain similarities with some of the classic C&C designs. For example, the transom of the Ontario 28Â and the earlier C&C 27 are almost identical. Mr. Adriaanse states that this is no coincidence. He explained that George Cuthbertson of C&C would do the overall design for a boat, but that many of the details were left up to designers such as himself.
As it turned out, he was the one who was responsible for the transom design which found its way on many of the C&C models that
were produced in the1970s. He said that his idea of what a transom should look like was based on his experience in Europe.
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