What happened to boat design?

[HakimKlunker]

I have been silent here for about 16 years. I needed to study more and to gain more insights.
I was off to make some yachts of course.
And what I see unfolding is not necessarily to my liking.
To vent my frustrations and to find a cure for my depressions I herewith present:

Feel free to share your thoughts with me, fellows.

 

[clmanges]

"Crew cabin and engine room are combined" ... lemme guess, they have to sleep on the deck, and the cost of their meals is deducted from their pay ... or are they considered paying passengers?

 

[kapnD]

I hear they have some really good weeds in Thailand!

 

[HakimKlunker]

Yay! Someone was reading it - I swear that weed was not involved in my creation.
Nice, if I could cause some smiles, yet...
The matter goes a little deeper:
I now enter my 5th decade in boat building. Not trying to dive into nostalgia about ''better days before''... but I see a trend that concerns me. In the plus-50ft-range builders and buyers meanwhile pay more attention to flashy status symbols and accessories heckmeck. Seamanship and safety aspects get pushed into the background. Thanks to ISO and alike, we still don't build (too) dangerous vessels.
Nevertheless, I have seen concept drawings (that were meant seriously) in which a trip to the bow anchor becomes a suicide mission - or where the helmsman (sorry, ladies) can't see through the wheelhouse windows because huge screens obstruct his vision. Kind of, that is.
Therefore my title: ''what happened...?''

 

[bajansailor]

Was this 'designed' with AI?

The waterline shown looks very optimistic - there is no buoyancy aft, so she is going to trim down terribly by the stern.

I have seen concept drawings (that were meant seriously) in which a trip to the bow anchor becomes a suicide mission

There are many big fast sportsfishing vessels in existence (ie not just concepts) to which this statement could be applied - narrow sidedecks each side of the superstructure with no guard rails anywhere, not even a pulpit rail at the bow.

 

[montero]

Yay! Someone was reading it - I swear that weed was not involved in my creation.
Nice, if I could cause some smiles, yet...
The matter goes a little deeper:
I now enter my 5th decade in boat building. Not trying to dive into nostalgia about ''better days before''... but I see a trend that concerns me. In the plus-50ft-range builders and buyers meanwhile pay more attention to flashy status symbols and accessories heckmeck. Seamanship and safety aspects get pushed into the background. Thanks to ISO and alike, we still don't build (too) dangerous vessels.
Nevertheless, I have seen concept drawings (that were meant seriously) in which a trip to the bow anchor becomes a suicide mission - or where the helmsman (sorry, ladies) can't see through the wheelhouse windows because huge screens obstruct his vision. Kind of, that is.
Therefore my title: ''what happened...?''

"Business as usual " covers all your doubts. It's the same with cars. Motorcycles are much better now . Some of them don't need lot of improvement.

 

[mc_rash]

I'm curious about how this boat will planing.

Considering where the prop shafts enter the hull - the crew cabin aka engine room looks to be placed too much aft

 

[gonzo]

It looks like your marketing skill may be good. There is a lot of claims, like "revolutionary", with no data to back it up. They are not even in the drawing. After 5 years you should be doing better.

 

[BlueBell]

to flashy status symbols

Like heli pads?

 

[mc_rash]

It looks like your marketing skill may be good. There is a lot of claims, like "revolutionary", with no data to back it up. They are not even in the drawing. After 5 years you should be doing better.

Revolutionary is the stack of watertoys. Reminds me a bit on my desk when studying

 

[gonzo]

What is revolutionary about it? All yachts have a toy garage.

 

[mc_rash]

HOW it's stacked in the visualization

 

[montero]

I'm always surprised of toy deck . Jet Ski or inflatable .
Nothing more ?
I watched this summer some sailing vessel . Pairs of skidoos or yamahas going and return to the deck .

 

[gonzo]

HOW it's stacked in the visualization

I can't see anything novel about it, let alone revolutionary.

 

[HakimKlunker]

@gonzo - and @all others here:
see my sarcasm, please: this is the **** that ''marketing people'' come up with. I simply visualized it in a distorted way to demonstrate the absurdity of it
If someone seriously asks me to build this thing I will shoot myself.