Design

The design office at Brooklin Boat Yard assists in bringing an owner’s vision to fruition by combining modern performance and engineering with timeless aesthetics to create innovative designs that exceed expectations. 

Our design team creates innovative designs that exceed expectations by combining timeless aesthetics with modern performance and engineering. We focus on bringing an owner’s vision and requirements to reality through all stages of design, from concept through to the smallest construction detail.

POWER

POWER
SAIL

SAIL

Design Office Capabilities:

With an experienced team of yacht designers coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, the BBY design office has the expertise to take on varied and complex designs for both power and sailboats and contribute at any stage of the yacht design process for projects in the BBY shop and in cooperation with other designers and boatbuilders. 

  • Many of our custom projects start from a blank sheet of paper. Through discussions, sketches, and preliminary calculations we work with clients to clarify their vision for a design and establish the general framework that will guide the rest of the design process.

  • Naval architecture is the foundation of yacht design. Our capabilities include hull shape development, stability assessment, weight estimation and analysis, and performance analysis and optimization.

  • BBY has a long history of being at the cutting edge of wood-composite construction, and we continue to push the envelope in engineering structures that combine wood, carbon fiber, fiberglass, and other composite materials to balance the requirements of scantling rules and classification societies with other considerations including weight optimization, aesthetics, production efficiency, and rating rule requirements. 

  • We work with clients (and oftentimes their chosen stylist) in all aspects of interior design from initial space planning to joinery details, lighting design, hardware selection, and finishes to ensure every interior is uniquely built to the owner’s vision.

  • Our expertise not only as yacht designers but also boatbuilders gives our office a unique perspective towards providing the information necessary to build a yacht in an efficient manner. Our capabilities include process engineering, detailed 3D modeling, renderings and other visualization aids, shop drawings, bill of materials creation & tracking, weight control, CNC cut file development, and jig/tooling design. Having these design capabilities on-site allows a seamless integration of modern design methods and CNC technology with hands-on craftsmanship.