| I never fail to be amazed at the price of yacht plans! | | | | always accord with yours. Different people have |
| Go to any yacht dealer and what plans they have will | | | | different ideas about what constitutes a good design, |
| cost you an arm and a leg. The internet is even | | | | and often these ideas become ingrained so deeply |
| worse; here's a little challenge for you, go to Google, | | | | that even when a client says they want something |
| type in "buy yacht plans", in quotes to cut out all the | | | | different, they still find these ingrained ideas coming |
| rubbish. You'd think that would give you some | | | | to the surface. The result is that they will often |
| relevant material but no, not unless you want to buy | | | | create a design, following your brief, that isn't quite |
| a tie with yacht plans on it. | | | | what you had in mind. For me, and probably for you |
| Draw Them Up Yourself | | | | too if you have a 'feel' about boats, the shape of a |
| So if you want to embark on a project to build your | | | | hull is almost a personal thing. It has to be right. |
| own yacht of a design of your own what can you | | | | Nothing Comes Close |
| do? Well, if you have several thousand dollars to | | | | And the best way to get it the way you want it is |
| spend on plans, then you could commission a | | | | to do it yourself, right? You're probably thinking that |
| professional yacht designer to draw them up for you. | | | | you don't know the first thing about yacht design. |
| But may I make I make a humble suggestion? Draw | | | | Well, that's what I thought too but it's really not as |
| them up yourself. | | | | difficult as you might think. You might also think I'm |
| Other Peoples' Ideas | | | | getting a bit carried away here, but believe me, once |
| The problem you'll probably find with using other | | | | you've designed and built your own boat, then |
| people to design your boat is that their ideas won't | | | | nothing else comes close. |