How about Westlawn

Hallo everybody,

I’m a naval architect and working in Shanghai, I’m very interesting in yacht design. I want to learn yacht design course. Is somebody can introduce me? How about Westlawn?
Thinks everyone!

Michael ZHANG

 

If you are a Naval Architect, why would you want to take a design course that could gain you only a diploma at best

Nevertheless, Westlawn is probably the most popular correspondence institution for boat design studies and have excellent goodwill and acceptance with yacht design offices all over.

 

Excellent school, and i know the guy who runs it, Dave Gerr. email dgerr@westlawn.edu. They have a very good course and a lot of naval architects have taken it simply because the do not teach yacht design in most Naval Architecture schools.

 

ike

what sort of quals would one need to succeed at such a course and do they teach power boat design too?

 

You need to look here http://www.westlawn.edu/ They teach all the elements of yacht design, both power and sail. Quals? Can you write a check? (sorry, not being sarcastic) But if you already have a degree you are more than qualified. When I took the course ( a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.........) I had only one year of college. You will need some computer and math skills and need to know basic drafting skills. With your Naval Architecture background you would sail through it.

 

I dunno Ike, I have more tickets for the practical stuff than you can poke a stick at, but I struggle with high math
BH Nautika who knows me well says go for it Well why not

 

So do I Dean. I hate to admit it but math has never been my strong point (I took Differential Calculus three times) but alot of the math is just knowing where to look up the right formula. Today it's almost all done by the software. Of course you need to understand what is going on, and what it all means, but the actually calculations are done automatically.

When I first started out at a shipyard i n 1965, I was doing weight and moment calcs. How tedious! Now it's all done by computers. You just enter the data. What took me months to do, is all done in a day.