Immediate Future Plans of macnaughtongroup.com
Introduction
Some of these potential plans for the future are quite immediate. Some are not. We are working on them in proportion to your apparent needs.
Yacht Design School
We continue to revise and
expand our curricula in yacht and small craft naval architecture in response to our
own research, the needs of the students, the needs of the industry and the
suggestions of many. While we believe we already provide the most advanced
curriculum in yacht and small craft design available today, we are constantly
looking for ways to improve and doing additional research.
These days our students work entirely on screen using the Rhinoceros(r) design
software and we believe we are the only school of yacht design to provide full
training in marine CAD work for both our own students and students attending
other schools in the field. We are working on additional optional
curricula in specialized areas of on screen design for the yacht and small craft
professional.
While for some years
now it has been apparent that we are the largest school teaching yacht and small
craft naval architecture, we are proud to say our school remains a very personal
one with each student working directly with their instructors on a one to one
basis.
MacNaughton Yacht Designs
MYD varies in size
depending upon the number of draftsment we have available. As near as we can tell any amount of
custom design work is available if we have enough draftsmen and designers to
take on projects in a timely fashion. At present our Yacht Design School
has grown to the point that we schedule less custom design work than we have in
the past.
Our intent is to continue gathering a
top team of the very best designers and draftsmen in the world and promote their
work. Although the founder expects to continue to guide the philosophy of the firm, do new
design work, continue to write about design, and continue to do new research for
years yet, he
hopes to train a top crew of designers and draftsmen whose work will be
recognized individually as well as part of the firm. This team will
gradually assume more and more of the responsibility of the firm, with the goal
always being to be able to provide the very best designs that produce the
maximum of customer happiness.
These days many of our new custom
designs are lofted by us and patterns and building jigs are CNC cut. Thus
our newer designs are often, in effect, kits. We encourage those who want
to have us loft our stock designs as well. We expect a growing number of
them will become "kitable" over time.
Publishing
The scarce resource
here is simply finding the people to operate this area. We review and put on the web
site books of special value. We hope to eventually market many publications in directly downloadable form. The more we sell, the more resources this generates
to develop more publications and pay their authors so this could all end up
benefiting the industry immensely.
The Liveaboard Catalog
We hope to develop this
area a great deal in the future. It will be not so much a store as simply
a resource for finding the best equipment. Our knowledgeable
equipment reviews, and free advice will always be all the promotion this will ever need and
we this could someday be a very large business serving the community
of serious cruising people.
Yacht Brokerage
We used to do this as
people asked us to sell their boats and find them boats and there are a number
of very happy people out their cruising, living aboard, and voyaging today
because in one way or another we assisted them in finding the right boat.
Nevertheless at the moment this exists only as a free service helping people
find the right boats. We simply no longer have enough time to seek out the
wonderful vessels that are out there, get the information on them and their
designers on the site, and handle all the negotiations and paper work.
Sooner or later we will find a person or people who will enthusiastically work
on these aspects under our direction and brokerage will do well again.
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