Teena,
You are right. I should have offered more information about my choices.
I mentioned several designers that have worked with recent important sailing yacht projets.
I realy apreciate their work on recent and old designs.
There are several other excelent designers, but only wanted to mention a few that I quikly remembered.
Bruce King:
Beautiful big sailing yachts.
2003 - Maria Cattiva is one of the last designs to be launched
(I dont know his site reference)
Andre Hoek:
Several beautiful big sailing yachts
2005 - 180 ft Adele
www.hoekdesign.com
Luca Brenta:
Recent Wally sailing yachts like Ghost
Recent Nautor 76
www.lucabrenta.com
Bruce Farr:
Most VO70 (Volvo Ocean Race) competitors were Farr projects
Several high performance sailing yachts
Fast cruising sailing yachts like SOUTHERN WIND 100 (2003)
http://www.farrdesign.com/new_designs.html
German Frers Jr
His father was a legend with many first class sailing yachts
Recent projects like Nautor's Swan 130
Several important new projects are being developed
http://www.germanfrers.net/site/home.php?id1=2&idl=1
Andrew Winch
2004 - motoryacht Phoenix (interior and exterior)
2003 - 154 ft sailing yacht Schehrezade (interior)
2003 - 118 ft sailing yacht Whisper (interior)
http://www.andrew-winch-designs.co.uk/
Tony Castro:
www.tonycastro.co.uk
2003 - sailing yachts Jongert 40 m and 32 m (Jongert is a shipyard)
www.tonycastro.co.uk
Pieter Beeldsnijder:
Recent sailing boat Athena (Royal Huisman Shipyard)
http://www.pieterbeeldsnijder.nl/
Ron Holland:
Seleral important sailing yachts like Felicita West (2003 - Perini shipyard) and Ethereal (2005 Royal Huisman shipyard)
http://www.ronhollanddesign.com/