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From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 13:00:40 EDT
Keith R. Pleas wrote
My little brother worked for Robert Perry back in the 70s. He thought he
wanted to be a yacht designer but got disgusted when Perry told him that
he didn't need any technical background, he just needed to be able to
draw pretty boats.
REPLY
At Poulsbo I attended the presentation by a couple of Naval Architects.
I was surprised and somewhat disappointed to hear one of them pronounce that
NA's do not normally get involved in the detail work of how to design and
install the various systems.
Evidently this is considered beneath them since they consider such a function
project management and building not designing.
Another NA once told me that the cost of producing actual fabrication
drawings would amount to about 10% of the total vessel cost.
This by way of explaining why such drawings are seldom provided.
At least that makes sense from the NA perspective. But how about production
builders. I would have expected them to produce detailed drawings.
So far the best job of documenting a boat that I have seen is Rayburn.
They produce a custom manual for each boat complete with photo illustrations
of every piece of gear and valve arrangement they explain in the manual.
They also produce decent electrical drawings and piping diagrams that actually
show what and where located.
But of course this sort of thing is rarely taken into consideration when
comparing price of various boats.
Only belatedly does the owner realize what is missing and then they have to pay
full shop rates for someone to manually trace out each system to figure out
what is going on.
Been there and have been paid well to do that.
Cheers
Arild
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