On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:05:50 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote

I believe it is called empirical learning. I've seen half models
carved a hundred years ago that wouldn't bring any shame on a "modern"
designer.


Also called on the job training. I taught myself the rudiments of sailboat
design as a senior thesis project in the private high school I went to and
then designed a boat for a friend that summer. When I decided to take a
year off after my first trimester of college, those plans were good enough
to get me a job with Philip L. Rhodes in New York. A couple years later I
went to work for a commercial boat design firm. I'd been on the job about
two weeks when the boss came out and said, "We need a 55 foot offshore
lobster boat, here, you do it.". About 20 years later I realized, "Oh ,
****, I forgot to go back to college!".


Used to be called an apprenticeship. I don't believe that Donald McKay
ever went to collage either.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)