Custom Yacht Design
High-speed motor yachts, sailing yachts, and day-cruising yachts tailored to your vision.
Boat & Yacht Design Services
Complete naval architecture and marine engineering — from concept sketch to class-approved construction drawings.
What We Offer
Custom Boat Design
Catamarans, houseboats, floating restaurants, and bespoke pleasure craft.
Workboat Design
Tugboats, dredging barges, crane vessels, and utility workboats engineered for duty.
Watersports Craft Design
Jet skis, hydrofoils, water bikes, small dinghies, and performance craft.
Practical Service Scope
The following outlines possible work, not fixed packages. Exact inputs, analyses, drawings, reports and exclusions are agreed per proposal. Approval support does not guarantee approval: the relevant class society or statutory authority retains responsibility for its review and decision.
Custom yachts and boats
- Suitable projects
- Motor and sailing yachts, day cruisers, catamarans and bespoke pleasure craft.
- Client inputs
- Intended use, dimensions, capacity, operating area, design references and any existing hull or arrangement.
- Design and analysis
- Concept development, hull modelling and general arrangement, with engineering tasks selected for the project.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Concept layouts, hull definition and general arrangement drawings; engineering and production documentation where commissioned.
- Scope boundaries
- A concept layout alone is not a construction-ready design or an approval.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Workboats and commercial craft
- Suitable projects
- Tugboats, dredging barges, crane vessels and utility workboats.
- Client inputs
- Operating duty, payload, deck equipment, dimensions, operating conditions and applicable authority requirements.
- Design and analysis
- Hull and arrangement design coordinated with stability, structural loads and performance analysis as agreed.
- Possible drawings and reports
- General arrangements, analysis reports and structural or production drawings within the agreed scope.
- Scope boundaries
- Equipment supply, vessel construction and authority decisions are not included merely by commissioning design.
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Watersports and performance craft
- Suitable projects
- Jet skis, hydrofoils, water bikes, small dinghies and performance craft.
- Client inputs
- Craft type, capacity, target operating conditions, propulsion information and concept references.
- Design and analysis
- Hull form and arrangement development, with resistance, CFD or structural analysis where relevant and commissioned.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Concept drawings, hull models and selected analysis or construction documentation.
- Scope boundaries
- Performance targets are design inputs, not guaranteed operating results; testing and manufacturing require separately agreed scope.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Houseboats and floating hospitality
- Suitable projects
- Houseboats and floating restaurants requiring coordinated space planning and marine engineering.
- Client inputs
- Location and water conditions, occupancy, layout, dimensions, equipment and available weight information.
- Design and analysis
- Hull and general arrangement coordinated with buoyancy, stability, structure and marine systems.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Arrangement drawings and selected stability, structural or systems documentation.
- Scope boundaries
- Marine design does not by itself provide shoreside planning permission or guarantee local approvals.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Stability and hydrostatics
- Suitable projects
- New vessel concepts or existing designs needing buoyancy and stability assessment.
- Client inputs
- Hull geometry, loading conditions, weights, centres of gravity and relevant operating or regulatory criteria.
- Design and analysis
- Hydrostatic and stability analysis, including GZ curves, based on the supplied and agreed design information.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Hydrostatic results and stability reports for the loading conditions included in the proposal.
- Scope boundaries
- Results depend on input accuracy; an analysis is not a certificate or a substitute for authority review.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Hull performance and CFD
- Suitable projects
- Hull designs requiring resistance, seakeeping or performance evaluation.
- Client inputs
- Hull model, displacement, operating speeds, loading conditions and propulsion information where available.
- Design and analysis
- CFD and resistance analysis, with seakeeping and powering assessment where agreed.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Analysis reports and design recommendations for the conditions and methods commissioned.
- Scope boundaries
- Predictions do not guarantee fuel savings, speed or full-scale performance; trials are not automatically included.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Structural design and construction documentation
- Suitable projects
- Vessels progressing from engineering definition towards production drawings.
- Client inputs
- Hull and arrangement, materials, loads, equipment details, build method and applicable rules.
- Design and analysis
- Scantlings, frames, bulkheads and load paths, coordinated with general arrangement and production documentation.
- Possible drawings and reports
- Structural drawings, general arrangements, production drawings and build documentation as specified in the proposal.
- Scope boundaries
- Drawings do not include fabrication, yard supervision or guaranteed class approval unless a separate scope expressly covers the relevant support.
- Planning guides
- Next inquiry step
- Discuss this scope with Ask AOS and share the available inputs for a proposal-specific response.
Concept, Engineering and Documentation
These levels describe the purpose of the work, not standard packages. Exact scope is agreed per proposal.
Concept Design
Hull form definition and preliminary general arrangement.
Establish the vessel direction and layout before detailed engineering.
Not a construction package or completed engineering verification.
Engineering Design
Hydrodynamic, stability and structural analysis, with powering and systems coordination where commissioned.
Develop and assess the design against agreed operating conditions and applicable criteria.
Analysis coverage and report requirements are proposal-specific.
Construction Documentation
Complete general arrangement, production drawings and build documentation.
Communicate the agreed design for construction and approval review.
The drawing list, revision support and submission responsibilities must be agreed.
Our Naval Architecture Workflow
Five stages, executed by certified naval architects — from first line to final class approval.
STEP 01Design
Concept development, hull form definition, and preliminary general arrangement.
Design: hull modelling and interior/exterior general arrangement establish the vessel geometry and layout.
STEP 02Hydrodynamic Analysis
CFD, resistance, stability (GZ curves), seakeeping, and performance validation.
Hydrodynamic Analysis: powering, stability and hull performance develop the engineering assessment.
STEP 03Structure Design
Scantling, frames, bulkheads, and load-path engineering per class rules.
Structure Design: structural engineering is coordinated with the hull, arrangement and systems requirements.
STEP 04Construction Drawings
Complete general arrangement, production drawings, and build documentation.
Construction Drawings: HVAC and MEP routing (piping, ventilation, fuel and electrical) is coordinated with production drawings where included.
STEP 05Final Approval & Compliance
Class and statutory approval — ISO 12215, ISO 12217, LR, ABS, DNV, IMO.
Final Approval & Compliance: the agreed drawings and analyses support review by the relevant class or statutory authority.
These five project stages group the seven technical tasks discussed through Ask AOS: hull modelling, general arrangement, powering, stability, structure, systems routing and production drawings. Tasks may overlap as the design develops; the proposal defines which are included.
Compliance with international standards including ISO 12215, ISO 12217, IMO, Lloyd's Register (LR), ABS, and DNV.