Curious: what makes you more satisfied —the journey of creation or the final result?

When a project starts, very little is visible. There is no shape yet. No proportions. No clear direction. There is only a question forming. Most design problems don’t begin with answers.They begin with uncertainty, intuition, and a vague sense that something could become clearer. This space exists to stay with that moment a bit longer. To observe how ideas slowly change, how decisions emerge, and how a project starts to make sense over time. Nothing here needs to be finished. Nothing needs to be impressive. Design evolves when we allow it to.

I’m starting this group with a real project for a simple reason: yacht design is often explained in a way that feels either vague or unreachable. This project is a 56 ft Fast Cruiser sailing yacht developed as my bachelor thesis. It’s not a built yacht, and it’s not meant to look “perfect”. What matters here is how decisions were made. Throughout this project I had to constantly balance performance, comfort, structure, stability, weight, and feasibility. Every choice meant giving something up somewhere else. That tension is where yacht design actually lives, but it’s rarely shown. I’m not sharing this to teach formulas or show finished images.I’m sharing it to explain why certain directions were taken, why others were rejected, and where the project was intentionally stopped. Everything I’ll post here will be short, visual, and focused on reasoning rather than results.The goal is not to impress, but to make the process readable. In a few days, I’ll run a 7-day design sprint based on this project.If you’ve ever looked at a yacht concept and felt that something didn’t quite work — without being able to explain why — this will probably resonate.

Most yacht design content online focuses on how things look.This group focuses on how decisions are made. To start, I’ll use a real project:a 56 ft Fast Cruiser sailing yacht developed as my bachelor thesis. It’s not a built yacht. It's a complete conceptual project, taken far enough to be: - technically consistent - logically defensible - realistic in terms of structure, stability and performance This group is not about: - inspiration without constraints - render-first design - academic theory disconnected from reality It is about: - proportions before style - layout as a balance problem - appendages driven by sailing logic - structure, weight and stability as design tools - knowing when a concept is solid — and when it’s not Over the next days, I’ll break this project down step by step.Not to show a “perfect yacht”, but to show how yacht designers think. If you’re here just to scroll, that’s fine.If you want to understand how yacht design actually works, stay close.