Yacht Yards and Designs

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An Established Yacht Design Presence for Extreme Passage Makers

Innovation can be viral; ideas can spread without effort, especially if the audience is listening. The Dashews and their NZ yards held a...

Dream Explorer Yacht - Understand Your Yard?

I had a long conversation last week with our shipyard, Naval Yachts. It reminded me of so many conversations over the years with clients...

Two Explorer Yachts, Two Design Philosophies.

Naval Yachts have a new engineer on staff and they have set to on their CAD system. He's been familiarizing himself with it's intracies...

Arksen find their groove!

The following article is reproduced courtesy of John Solomon, Sales Director for Arksen. Arksen would appear to have found their groove...

Mitigating Risk in a Remote Explorer Yacht Build

An Explorer Yacht is not a “production yacht” with all systems pre-specified or, at a maximum, the option for relatively minor...

Design Safety For Your Explorer Yacht

I’m writing this as much to clarify personal thoughts as to verbalize a design yacht decision process. Having a good idea is an easy...

Aluminium, Fiberglass, Steel or Wooden Hulls?

So we have a yacht design or two and are contemplating building your dream explorer yacht. Now just what are you going to use to build...

Yacht Categories: What Category to Build Your Explorer Yacht?

There are some fundamental differences between the marine regulatory systems employed in Europe and the USA. One could probably write a...

Why She Looks Like a Fishing Boat?

My wife, Sebrina is constantly asking why I lean so heavily towards fitting commercial-grade equipment when the market has some much more...

Lessons from a Previous Yacht Build.

XPM78-01 Mobius was built by Wayne and Christine to a design by Artnautica. Both are very experienced sailors and good friends. Their...

Designing a Boat For Our Personal Use

I will start this message with a Broker’s advice, “If you truly want to go sailing, don’t leave it too late.” Here we are, 2 years...

Who is building explorer yachts?

We will constrain this blog to a type of hull that is long and narrow, high L/B ratio, or however you wish to describe the parameter. I...

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