YACHT & POWERCRAFT DESIGN SERVICES

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

My yacht design service is backed by design experience extending from small production cruising yachts for modest family budgets to luxury yachts in wood, GRP, aluminium alloy or steel, built by the finest yards to individual customers’ exacting requirements.

During the time that I spent as a member of the yacht design team at the world-famous yard of Camper & Nicholsons, I contributed to the design of a number of successful racing yachts including one Fastnet Race winner, as well as working on the C & N range of superb cruising yachts, such as the popular Nicholson 31 and the elegant Nicholson 70.

My first “solo” design was the 34’ Yacht “Bojabe” which was built in 1980 from strip-planked wood-epoxy.  With many innovative features for her time, she has cruised extensively, including 4 trans-Atlantic crossings as well as voyages to Alaska and the Mediterranean, recording some remarkably fast times for ocean passages.

Whilst I was working at Southampton Institute, now Southampton Solent University, I produced a number of preliminary yacht designs for students to develop as part of their degree and diploma courses.  Lines plans and concept drawings were drawn for yachts of  23’, 35’, 43’, 45’, 50’ and 60’.  These “generic” yachts then formed the basis of exercises such as sail plans, accommodation arrangements, engine installation drawings, deck plans, rudder and keel designs, ergonomic cockpits and   aesthetic studies.  Numerous calculations were then performed on them for buoyancy, stability, strength and performance.  Sometimes models of these yachts were tank tested for work on performance prediction, others have been inclined in a static stability tank to assess their stability characteristics.

Since then my yacht design projects have been much more varied and include a 6.7m (22ft) Trailer Sailer, the fabulous HiP30 one-design gentleman’s racer-dayboat, “Spirit of the East” a large steel ketch for charter work, “Calypso” a tribute design to the famous “Spray” of 1895, as well as a 9’ rowing/sailing dinghy for a boat-building class, a design study for a Thames A-Rater and a Scow dinghy.

I would be pleased to discuss any yacht design projects with potential clients and can prepare anything from a proposal drawing to a complete design. I would also like to develop the hull form of “Bojabe” into a modern wide-stern cruiser, whilst retaining some of the fine seakeeping qualities which made her such a successful ocean voyager.

In all my yacht design projects there is an emphasis on achieving a craft with good sailing performance, which is efficient, pleasing to look at and well engineered, thus providing the owner with a yacht which will give great sailing satisfaction over many years.

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