Langan Design Associates, Inc. was founded by Bill Langan in 1997. At the young age of 25, Langan made a name for himself in the yachting world when the 20th century’s most distinguished american naval architect Olin Stephens appointed him Chief Designer of Sparkman & Stephens, a position Stephens had held himself for 50 years. Langan didn’t waste any time helping the semi-retired Stephens draft the lines for Freedom, the last 12-metre class yacht to win the America’s Cup for the United States.