The international owner
Building remotely
Studio sessions by video, decisions logged in writing, yard visits at key stages.
Decisions are cheap on paper
Concept board, general arrangement, 3D model, specification. Only then does a shipyard contract exist.
The studio process is deliberately front loaded
Every week spent here is bought back at the yard, where changes cost ten times more.
Owners who arrive with a magazine photo get useful questions. Owners who arrive with an itinerary get a design.
Bring three things, none of them drawings: where you will sail, who will be aboard, and the honest budget band you can commit. Platform, length, material and layout are derived, and deriving them is our job.
- Design phase before a keel
- 2 to 4 mo
- GA, 3D model, specification
- 3 documents
- New projects taken per season
- Limited
Three paths
Who the studio designs for
Each path ends in the same place: a specification both sides can hold each other to.
The Bali expatriate
Living alongside it
Studio afternoons in Denpasar, weekend drives to Benoa, designed around crossings you know.
The charter operator
Starting from a rate card
Designed backwards from revenue, reviewed against licensing before contract.
From concept board to shipyard contract
Four moves, in this order, every time.
Concept board
Itinerary, guest count and budget translated into first sketches.
Arrangement
Cabins, crew spaces and machinery fixed on a general arrangement.
3D model
Interiors walked and revised before anything is ordered.
Specification
Precise enough to price honestly and to contract against.
Contract
Only now does a shipyard contract exist, with the bands attached.
The design phase ends with a document set precise enough that competing quotes on it would be comparable line by line.
Before your first session
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Begin at the studio
The studio takes a limited number of new projects each season so supervision quality holds. Bring an itinerary rather than a photograph.