Why I’m Starting This Group With a Real Project
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.