Naval Architecture - yacht & power boat design, stability, powering, trials ...

Powering: Calculations and advice on performance prediction for sailing or motor boats, engine sizes & types, installations, propeller selection, sail areas & balance.

Documentation Services including Writing Articles and Reports, Editing, Proof reading, Preparing pages for Web-Sites, Music Scores and Typing.

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Tank Testing: Check out the performance of a new design before building. Full tank-testing service available including model-making, test programme, analysis and report.

Yacht Designs: The design of a beautiful, safe and efficient yacht to suit your specific requirements, with all the drawings and calculations that are required to build her.

Power Boats: Pleasing, purposeful and cost-effective motor boats, designed to match your precise needs, for use in displacement, transitional or fully planing modes.

Surveys: Survey types include pre-purchase, condition, damage, osmosis, compliance, valuation, insurance and in-build for GRP, steel, aluminium, plywood and wood-epoxy boats.

Stability: Examine the stability characteristics of a boat, carrying out an inclining test if necessary. Assess for damage survival if required. Produce a Stability Booklet for the vessel to satisfy the MCA Code of Practice for commercial use, such as charter work.

Sea Trials: Assess the performance of a boat by conducting speed or manoeuvring trials and provide a report making suggestions for improvements to the design.

Modifications: Changing the arrangement or considering a new rudder or keel? Detailed drawings can be produced considering all the implications for strength, stability, handling, etc.

Other Services: Buying a Boat Service, Problem Solving, Advice on Regulations, Investigations, Technical Articles, Computer Aided Design, Training, Representation, Liaison with Boatyards & Organisations.

Taking Off Lines: No plans available? By taking careful measurements from an existing hull, a full lines plan can be produced enabling stability calculations or other work to be performed.

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Re-powering: Changing from outboard to inboard or from petrol to diesel? I can assess the feasibility, work out costings, produce the installation drawings, obtain quotes and supervise the work at the boatyard.

Conversions: Detailed drawings can be produced for the conversion of a former working boat into an interesting and seaworthy private yacht or expeditionary vessel.

Yacht & Powercraft Design Services Ltd
Email: info@yacht-designer.co.uk
Tel. 44 (0) 1489-583346 Fax. 44 (0) 1489-583346 Mobile 07803-724317