Joel McCoun White (December 21, 1930 – December 5, 1997) was an American naval architect.
Early life and education
Born in Manhattan,<!-- This book, wh. also refs the date of birth, names the hospital; NYT has Mount Vernon. --> White was the only child of the writer E. B. White and his wife Katharine Sergeant Angell White, fiction editor of The New Yorker. He was the son with whom E. B. White revisited the lake where he had gone on boyhood vacations, as chronicled in his 1941 essay "Once More to the Lake"; the essayist Roger Angell was his halfbrother. He grew up in North Brooklin, Maine and attended Cornell University, then transferred after two years to MIT, from where he graduated in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in naval architecture.
Career
White worked as a boat builder in Newport News, Virginia, served in the Army, then in 1960, in a former herring-packing plant,
He contributed designs to WoodenBoat magazine and in 1988 published Wood, Water & Light: Classic Wooden Boats, with photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz;
Personal life and death
White and his wife, Allene, had two sons and a daughter. He died of lung cancer in 1997 at home in Brooklin, Maine.