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Meaning of Symmetry  


“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty, and perfection. Symmetric means well-proportioned, well-balanced, and concordance of several parts integrated into a whole.  Beauty is bound up with symmetry.”
--Herman Weyl, Symmetry, 1952, Princeton University Press

“There is acting on any sailing vessel a perfect symmetry of the forces between the wind and the vessel precisely balanced by the forces between the water and the vessel.”
--Ross Garrett, The Symmetry of Sailing, 1987

“Beauty of form arising from balanced proportions, the property of being symmetrical; correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line.”
--Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary


The first Symmetry was a 377 ton brig which sailed throughout the world including the UK, Canada and Australia in the early 1800s.

Nearly 200 years later, an American yachtsman commissioned New Zealand Yachting Developments Ltd to build a modern performance yacht of advanced composites designed by the prolific German Frers.

Symmetry launched in October of 2004 -- a beauty of form arising from balanced proportions.