When Considering Custom Yacht Design You Need To Take Your Time

There is nothing quite like having a sailing yacht designed that incorporates all of your own requirements. 

Of course, you can buy a superyacht on the second hand market and many of them are the last word in luxury, but there will always be things that you think like “I wish it had this” or “I wish it didn’t have that”. When you have custom sailing yacht design you can have your yacht built EXACTLY as you want it.

However, when you are considering custom sailing yacht design you need to sit down and think about it long and hard. You don’t want to be in a position after you have taken delivery of your brand new toy and then think “Oh, I wish I had thought of this or that!”

You also want to have many meetings with your designer. Unless you have many years of sailing under your belt you probably don’t know nearly as much about custom sailing yacht design as a yacht designer. After all, it is what they do for a living so they will be very much aware of what works and what doesn’t. For instance, you may tell the designer that you want to incorporate a particular idea but he knows that if you do that your yacht won’t do something else or it won’t go as fast, or be as safe, or whatever.

For example, you say that you want a narrow hull with high length to beam ratio for maximum performance, but he knows that a narrow hull tends to roll badly. It’s his job to know that, but you may well not be aware of it. If you insist on it, then he can probably design it the way you want it, but at least he has pointed out the disadvantage. 

So, yes, be prepared to spend many weeks or even months when considering custom yacht design because when push comes to shove you are only going to build it once, and it needs to incorporate everything that you want. It has to be right first time.