Answers to allegations from competitors website

The original Bruce Roberts company was founded in 1968 by Bruce Roberts-Goodson and Andy Slorach in  Australia. In 1972 Bruce left Australia and concentrated on the US and UK markets. In 1994 Andy Slorach retired, selling Bruce Roberts International to naval architect Bill Ingram. In 1998 Phil Hogg and Liz Thompson acquired the business. In 2000, after a number of disputes, Bruce Roberts and Bruce Roberts International parted company. Bruce Roberts is no longer associated with Bruce Roberts International and has his own business called Bruce Roberts Designs.

Bruce Roberts International has been in Australia for 39 years. We have never claimed to have personally been associated with the company for all this time although our names are on plan records, as purchases and builders, from the mid seventies.

Our plan portfolio was purchases legitimately, through legal channels. Every plan sold by this office since 1971 has a sail number (sailboats) or hull number (power boats). These numbers for the various designs have run unbroken since then. We hold these records still.

There is nothing wrong with the plans we sell, they are not 'pirated' or 'unsafe' and to call them so is misleading and irresponsible. Vessels built from these plans have proven themselves in seas and oceans all over the world. Some of the designs we sell were first printed in the seventies and eighties. These are mainly the displacement hulls. The Longboat 21, designed by Barry Long; the R341, Spray 33, Tom Thumb 24 among others designed by Graham Shannon; the Waverunner 40/42, PCF40 and other earlier Waverunners designed by George Love are all timeless examples of excellent hull designs that have withstood the test of time. The list of plans described as 'out of date' and 'no longer supported by designer' is a list mainly created because Bruce Roberts-Goodson does not have these plans. We have all the original plans, right back to 1968, along with all updates. If someone has bought a second hand vessel with the Roberts name then we will still have the plans for it and we do still offer support for these designs when needed.

There are a number of plans designed in the late eighties/early nineties where we do not have the computer files for, just the Mylar masters. As we bring these up to date they will be converted to this format.

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You, the buyer has the choice. You can buy from either of us if the boat of your dreams is on both sites. What you see is what you get. We do not adhere to the "Persian Carpet" style of selling but offer a very fair deal, up front with no hidden strings attached. We believe we offer excellent service and that you, the builder, will have better advice and better service from us. The decision is entirely yours.