Selection of the Yacht Type and Project. What should you begin with? We suggest you to track our train of thought during making a complicated decision in selection of the yacht type.
Sailing or Motor Yacht?
There is Classification of Boats. All boats can be devided on motor and sailing boats. It's certainly easier to learn to steer motor yacht, than a sailing yacht. Comfort for passengers and crew on a motor yacht is incommensurable more than on a sailing one. A motor yacht has less draft, than sailing one, as a rule it has higher speed of motion. In addition, there's no need to set a high mast, to buy expensive sails, to block a deck up with winches, ropes and other difficult sailing rubbish. However we need to pay for everything. Therefore it will be necessary to install two engines, not to remain the toy of waves in the case of engine death. In addition, constant fuel consumption requires its permanent compensation, what means expenses to purchase it.
An engine also has its motoresource, and long hikes are expended by both a fuel and this motoresurs. Stability of the motor yacht is much lower than stability of the keel yacht, therefore one will feel himself safer on the sailing keel yacht in a gale. And the sea heaving is beared much easier at the sailing ships. If to take into account that it's necessary to pay for the right of wind using only at the purchase of sails and mast, it is possible to see enormous potential of economy. And also a quite of motion under a sail and ecological cleanness. Although there is an engine on a sailing yacht also, however it's used as auxiliary, in those cases, when the wind is absent or possibilities for a manoeuvre are limited.
And there is also a motor-sailing yacht which connects in itself, as far as it's possible, advantages of both types of yachts. You can read more about types of
What Sizes Should the Yacht Have?
This depends on what aims it is needed for. You should determine whether it will be used for the weekend cruises or for the long trips over seas and oceans. Determine on this basis the amount of cabins for the owner and passengers. The bigger is the yacht, the more expensive it is in building. It is an axiom. 10,000 workings hours are spend for building of a yacht 15 meters long on average. And this is when manufacture is organized professionaly. In addition, what sizes of the room where you count to build the yacht. It will be necessary to extract it out of there and to deliver it to the place of launching.
So, some decision finally ripened in your head and you already defined approximately what do you want to have.
There are many designer companies in the world which will undertake to develop a
project for your yacht. However to order such a project is enough expensive thing. But there are such companies which develop so-called standard design and they gladly co-operate with home builders. For example world-famous company Bruce Roberts Design.
They will help you to choose a project, sending you their catalogue, then they will send you study-plain for a small paiment (approximately 1$ for one foot of length of your future yacht), in which basic drafts and projections of yacht, chosen by you, are drawn on a scale. There will be specification of materials in it, necessary for building according to the material and method chosen by you. You can make your own changes of planning in this plan, which will be taken into account by the designer in the main drafts. You will need to pay the drafts of project, executed with very large exactness after that. The company also promises to consult you free of charge during the next ten years. It's also important that the name of the author of your yachtproject will play considerable role at yacht registration, at its sale, insurance, at determination of its price, as an object of credit security. The name of designer can cost ten thousand dollars. In addition, such companies guarantee the speed of motion indicated in drafts at an observance by you at building of sizes and other requirements, indicated in a draft. As a rule, not one ten of ships is built by such projects and a project passed good preliminary tests.
