Erich Bruckmann This is Me

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1. 1. The History of C&C

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   Published on: 4/6/2006   Last Visited: 10/4/2007

   George Cuthbertson directed the design effort, Erich Bruckmann the custom work, and George Hinterhoeller production.
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   It was Canada's Cup time again, and Bruckmann built three C&C designs for the Canadian defense of the cup.
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   In 1976, Cuthbertson hired David Gee to oversee Erich Bruckmann's custom division.
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   Bruckmann was an expert builder, and Gee came with an MBA and experience at General Foods and commercial banking. He didn't know much about boats but believed he could improve the company through team building, market-driven product design, and a corporate mindset.
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   Erich Bruckmann is retired, but his son, Mark, carries on the tradition of building boats under the family name.

2. 2. C2C a review of C&C's best boats

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   Published on: 4/6/2006   Last Visited: 10/4/2007

   Erich Bruckmann, left without a custom shop to run, goes back into business for himself in Bronte, Ont., in the old Metro Marine facility, where he started his boatbuilding career in Canada as a foreman 30 years previous. Bruckmann is the last of the original C&C partners to leave the company.
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   The Cuthbertson & Cassian design team and builder Erich Bruckmann gave the world its first balsa-core hull with Red Jacket in 1966. C&C engineering, combined with the boatbuilding skills of Bruckmann and George Hinterhoeller, proved to the consumer that a fibreglass boat didn't have to be built like a brick outhouse to be good -- light and rigid was perfectly fine.
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   Custom shop head Erich Bruckmann made the best of a bad thing by converting a Mega hull into a cruising powerboat.

3. 3. Canadian Yachting

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   Published on: 6/6/2003   Last Visited: 6/6/2003

   Erich Bruckmann, left without a custom shop to run, goes back into business for himself in Bronte, Ont., in the old Metro Marine facility, where he started his boatbuilding career in Canada as a foreman 30 years previous. Bruckmann is the last of the original C&C partners to leave the company.
   ...
   The Cuthbertson & Cassian design team and builder Erich Bruckmann gave the world its first balsa-core hull with Red Jacket in 1966. C&C engineering, combined with the boatbuilding skills of Bruckmann and George Hinterhoeller, proved to the consumer that a fibreglass boat didn't have to be built like a brick outhouse to be good -- light and rigid was perfectly fine.
   ...
   Custom shop head Erich Bruckmann made the best of a bad thing by converting a Mega hull into a cruising powerboat.