Boats designed by Rod Johnstone
Rod Johnstone has 38 designs in this archive, drawn between 1977 and 2025, racing in classes Class 0, Class A, Class B, Class C, Sportboat, mostly semi-displacement hulls. The highest scoring is the J/88, at 94 of 100 against its own handicap.
What Rod Johnstone's boats do well
Rod Johnstone has 38 designs in this archive, drawn between 1977 and 2025, built by J/Boats, J BOATS and 3C COMPOSITE and 2 other yards.
The longest of those relationships is with J BOATS: 12 designs between 1977 and 2025, 48 years of the same two names on the same transom.
The J/88 of 2013 is the most efficient design here, with a Race Edge of 94.
The recent ones tell a different story. The designs drawn since 2010 are plainly quicker against their rating and, more to the point, they have stopped giving the middle band away, which used to be the family weakness.
It holds for the J/24 of 1977 as much as for the J/99 of 2019: the size changes, the character does not.
38
Designs
23
With a Race Edge
1977
First design
2025
Latest design
Built by
Every design by Rod Johnstone we have measured
Race Edge is how much a design makes back of what its rating asks; designs without one are listed last. Sort the range whichever way suits.