The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 17 of 47

Mariner Product / Service Providers:

Designers, Plans & Kits N to Z:: The Newfound Woodworks, Inc. (Strip-planked canoe, kayak and boat plans and kits); Newport Technologies (Designers of fast hydroskis, multihulls and monohulls); New Wave Catamarans (Australian designer and builder of high speed aluminium power catamarans); Nigel Irens Design (Shoal draft cruising luggers, cruising cutters, power and sailing multihulls); Nils Andersson's Sailing Designs (International Offshore Class racer, etc.); Noah's Marine Supply (Bear Mountain canoe & kayak plans & kits); Northwest Marine Design (Stock & custom yacht and small boat designs for the amateur & professional builder); Northwoods Canoe Company (Wooden canoe kits, plans, by Rollin Thurlow); Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering (Designers of articulated tug/barge units); Odyssey Boat Kits (Preassembled kit for a 15 1/2' Swampscott dory, Camano Island, Washington); The Official AYRS Page (The Amateur Yacht Research Society); OldMarineEngine.com's Boat Plans (Boats suitable for early inboard power from Weston Farmer and other old sources); One Ocean Kayaks (Designs and construction info and tips for high performance wooden sea kayaks); The OrigamiPlyBoat Design Repository Mailing List (Photos, files & links regarding OrigamiDesign in general, with special attention for plywood and composite building); Orion Yachting (Wood and fiberglass boat design, Göcek-Fethiye, Turkey); Owlers' Craft (Lapstrake kit-boats and plans for home construction by Per Corel); Parker Marine Enterprises (Reuel Parker, custom designs and stock plans for cold-molded wood, plywood, traditional wood, aluminum and steel construction); Paul Gartside Ltd. (Boatbuilder and designer, Sidney, British Columbia); Paul Kotzebue 3D Graphics (3D graphics for boat builders and designers); Percy Blandford's Designs (An onofficial catalog of plans for rowing, sailing & power boats, as well as kayaks and other small craft); Perdido Design (Medium sized yachts and small craft); Peter Kerr Design (Aluminium and composite sailing and power catamarans for DIY and professional builders, Gunalda, Queensland); Philippe Cabon Architecte Naval (Cruising and racing multihulls, dinghies, maxi-yachts & workboats); Phil's Foils & Composites (Foil design tips and tricks); Plans for Watercraft in the Collection of Mystic Seaport Museum; Plattdesign (Small-boat/pleasure boat custom designs by William R. Platt); Platt Monfort's Geodesic AiroLITE Boats (Kits and plans); Plessis-Marin Yacht Design (Mono and multi-hull sailing yacht designs); Pygmy Boats Inc. (Sea kayak plans); Rachel, A Versatile Dinghy (Stitch 'n' glue design by Mark Anderson); Ray's River Dories, Inc. (McKenzie River drift boat plans, kits); Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Company's Plans for Wood Sea Kayaks; Reinke (Aluminum cruising sailboat plans for amateur and professional construction by Kurt Reinke, Bremen, Germany); Response Marine (Welded aluminum boat design & construction sourcing); R. H. Baker Boat Works (Small boat designs by the late Bob Baker and lines of classic boats taken off by him, Westport, Massachusetts); Rick Etsell, Naval Architect (Custom yacht and workboat designs, specializes in steel and aluminum workboats and heavy duty yachts, yacht restorations); The River's Touch (Dimensional plans and offsets for historic Oregon drift boats); Robb White and Sons, Inc. (Strip-planked 16' Sport Boat plans, Thomaston, Georgia); Robert Allan Ltd. (Naval architects and marine engineers, marine design and consulting services worldwide); Robert H. Perry Yacht Designers Inc. (Sailing and motor Yachts, Seattle); Roberto Barros Yacht Design (Designs for amateur and professional builders: sail & power yachts, professional fishing boats and utility craft, Brazil); Robert Q. Riley Enterprises (Riley plans from Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics and Home Mechanix); Roger Long Marine Architecture, Inc. (Specialist in oceanographic research vessel design); The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA); Roy Folland Wooden Kayak Kits and Kayak Plans; Running Tide Yachts, Ltd. (Monohull and multihull designs with a mast-aft sailing rig and a 65' gamefishing sailing catamaran); Sage Boats (Plywood kayak and rowboat plans, Prineville, Oregon); Sailboat Design Ratios Explained; The Sailboat Technology Foundation (Disseminating scientific research and technological advances, and promoting the communication among researchers, educators, students, designers and sailors); The Sail Training Barquentine Calliope (Tobias Bender's naval architecture diploma thesis); San Francisco Pelican Sailboats (Plans for all variations of Captain Short's classic, sold by Mrs. Short); Satellite Yacht Design (Modern racing & cruising yachts designed by Kees van de Stadt, Holland); SBI Marine (Highlander and Skylark small boat plans); Scruffie Marine (Interlocking plywood kits for traditional style sailboats & motorboats, Queensland); Seaboard Marine Powertrain and Equipment Design (Powertrain and equipment design and engineering); Seabyte New Media (Specialists in visualising naval architecture using 3D modelling, 3D animation, graphic design & digital video editing); Sea K Designs (Kits for scow-style plywood sailboats, Toronto); The Searunner Design Parnership (John Marples and Jim Brown, cats and tris, sail and power); Seaside Small Craft (lapstrake double-paddle canoes, skiffs, and other small recreational boats, designed using computer technology); Sea Speed Aluminium Catamaran Design (Power catamarans, Brisbane, Australia); Seaworthy Systems, Inc. (Full-service naval Arlchitecture firm involved in commercial and military engineering, and some very interesting passenger and yacht projects as well); Selway Fisher Design (Plywood and strip yachts & boats for the home & professional boatbuilder); Seth Person Boat Builders (Designs and kits for plywood rowing, paddling and power boats); S. Fishwick - Small Boat Designs (Small boats, sailing canoes); Shearwater Boats (Small boat, canoe, kayak plans); The Shellback's Library Booklets Series (Inexpensive reprints of old boatbuilding and design articles); Shell Boats (Kits and plans for plywood sailboats); Ship and Boat Plans from the Smithsonian Institution (Historical and orginal plans by Chapelle, H. V. Sucher, HAMMS, more); Shoestring Shipyard (Plans and kits for small wooden boats); Simmons Sea-Skiff Plans from the Cape Fear Museum; A Skiff for All Seasons: How to Build an Alaskan Skiff (Boat plans in book form by Renn Tolman); Small Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats); The Small Boat Forum Index of Small Boat Designers; The Smallboats Mailing List (Dedicated to the development of small boats which are rowed, paddled or sailed); Small Tugs by Mal Low N.A. (Stock and custom plans for commercial tugs, character tugs, and tug-yachts 21-65', Gloucester, Massachusetts); Smith Marine Design (Custom and stock plans for sportfishing and cruising powerboats by Timm Smith, Crystal River, Florida); The SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo (SMTC&E, Houston, Texas, October 19-21, 2005); The Society of Boat and Yacht Designers; The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; Solway Dory (Sailing canoe plans); Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.; Specialty Marine Contractors (Design and computer lofting of welded aluminum boats, rigid inflatables with aluminum hulls, landing craft to 30', precut kit boats, Scappoose, Oregon); Spira International by Jeff Spira (Stitch 'n' glue and framed plywood driftboats, dories, motorboats and ultralight boats); Sponberg Yacht Design (Sail, power, multihull, free standing masts); The Spray 700 (A trailerable metal 23' version of Slocum's boat, "the minimum serious cruiser"); Standfast Yachts (Custom fiberglass sailing yachts); Steelkit Ltd. (Kits for aluminum and steel workboats, fishing boats and yachts, Wales); Stephen Baker, Yacht Designer (Ocean sailboats, "specializing in good-looking, fast, comfortable boats"); Steve Redmond's Small Boat Designs (Plans for amateur boatbuilders); Stillwater Boats (Persuaded plywood canoe and boat plans, kits); Stimson Marine (Traditional boat and skin-on-frame boat plans, bowroof shed plans); Stock Yacht Projects Ltd. (Marine design and project management, Auckland, New Zealand); Stolkraft International (High speed motorboat design, "the world's only patented hullform," Australia); Strategic Marine (Designs for crew boats, work and patrol boats and support or transport vessels, Henderson, Western Australia); Stuart M. Roy, Naval Architect (Sailing yacht and powercraft desig, UK); Submersible Systems Technology, Inc. (Designs submarines, diving equipment, remotely operated vehicles, autonomous unmanned vehicles, hypobaric chambers and other specialized underwater equipment); Swallow Boatworks (Kits for stitch 'n' glue small boats with a traditional style, designed by Nick Newland, Cardigan, Wales); Swamp Yankee Boats (Stitch and glue canoe plans, kits); Swan Boat Design (Ken Swan's plans frame kits for wood rowboats, dories, sailboats, and more); Swedish Motorboat Designers (Biographies of some historic designers, with boat info and pictures); Sylvia Bolton Interior Design for Yachts; Tad Roberts Design (Large and small powerboats and sailboats); Tanton Yachts (Design, engineering and construction); Taylor Pacific Proa - An Experiment in Variable Geometry (Designs by Douglas Taylor); Team Hydroski ("Defining, then executing the next transportation paradigm shift"); Ted Brewer Yacht Design; TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Plans & kits for wood stripper canoes, rowing skiffs & tenders); Texas International Marine Engineers, Inc. (TIME Marine, naval architecture firm that specializes in heavy lift operations, particularly large break bulk cargo pieces); Thomas E. Colvin Naval Architect; Thompson Performance Design (High performance sailboats, New Zealand); Timothy Graul Marine Design (Commercial, fishing and pleasure craft, power and sail, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin); Tom Speer's Theoretical Boat Design Page (Aerodynamics, landyacht and multihull sailboat design, hydrofoils, rigid rigs); Tracy O'Brien Marine Design (Plywood Northwest drift boats and skiffs); Tri-Coastal Marine Services (Yacht & ship design, historic preservation); Tri-Maran Multihull (A 41' trimaran for the back yard boat builder by Robert Stanfield, main hull can be built as a monohull); U-Fab Pontoon Boat Kits (No-welding kits for pontoon boats, houseboats and floating docks, Ottawa, Ontario); Uffa Fox Ltd. (Biography, plans by Uffa, biblioghraphy, Uffa Fox books wanted and for sale); The UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database (Over 1150 foils); Uncle John's Classic Cajun Pirogue Kits; Unicorn Kayaks (Custom skin-on-frame kayaks kits, Kunkletown, Pennsylvania); US Copyright Office Registration of Designs of Vessel Hulls; US Marine Design (Specializes in the design of custom yachts and 3D modeling); Valley Woodworking (Cedar strip canoe plans); Van Dam Yacht Design (Wooden runabouts & motorboats); Van de Stadt Design (Sailing yachts, Holland); Van De Stadt Design - Australia; Velocity (Consultation on speed under sail, polars (performance predictions) for individual racing yachts or for variants still in the design stage); Verme Yacht Projects (Planing waterjet propelled megayachts designer, Italy); Victory Design (Naval architects and marine engineers specializing in, but not limited to, high performance motorboats & high tech mechanical components for offshore racing powerboats, Italy); The Viking Ship Plans Mailing List; Virtual Boat Design (Bateau.com designs a boat online with the participation of Web users); Volker Gries Naval Architect - Marine Engineer - Marine Consultant (Motor & sailing yachts, high performance vessels, commercial vessels, submerging ships); Vripack Yachting International (Dutch naval architect-marine engineering-interior designers); Waarschip Werf BV (Modern Plywood sailboat plans & kits 5.7-12.5m, Holland); Warren Multihull Designs (Ted Warren); Waters Dancing Boat Kit Company (Plywood canoes and kayaks, Edmonton, Alberta); Water Sprite Canoes (Plywood canoe kits, 7' to 19'); Wayland Marine - For Those Moved By Oars (Rowing boat kits, Bellingham, Washington); The Whaleback Sailboat Design (Paul VandenBosch is designing a small, open water sailboat); William J. Roué (Designer of the schooner Bluenose and many other craft); WoodenBoat Magazine (A large selection of classic and modern designs); Wooden Boat Plans by Gator Boat Co. (Traditional Southeastern style backwater boats: johnboats, skiffs and pirogues); The Wooden Boatshop (Australian traditional and contemporary designs); The Wooden Boats Workshop of Norwalk (Wooden Optimist dinghies and kits, Connecticut); Wooden Widget.com (Downloadable plans for an origami folding dinghy); Woods Designs (Sailing catamaran, stitch 'n' glue beach cat and rowing and sailing dinghy plans for home and professional builders); Woodwind Boats (Wooden kit boats and Canadian canoes, Westcliff on Sea, Essex); Working Boats (Prefix™ interlocking plywood kits for power garvey work boats, designed by Rob Humphreys, UK); World Composites (Computer cut composite plans and kitsets for cruising catamarans and powerboats, Australia); The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering; www.rowing-boat.co.uk (A selection of small, open boat designs by John Hesp featuring epoxy and plywood construction); Yachting Consult Engineering (CAD/CAM kit engineering and production); The Yacht Design Library of Al Mason; The Yacht Research Homepage; Zurn Yacht Design (A full-service design firm situated in Marblehead, Massachusetts); (Many one-design classes also offer plans and kits for sale)
Free Plans:: Absolutely Free Plans (Links to free online boat plans); Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (The 1765 book by Frederik Hendrik af Chapman online); Build Your Own Boat (Online reprints of boatbuilding articles from long ago); Cyber-Boat (Free downloadable full scale construction drawings for small boats designed by Per Corelli); Doug Garmon's Free Kayak Plans (The stitch-and-tape Qivitoq & others); Fishing Boat Designs: 2 V-Bottom Boats of Planked and Plywood Construction (Free online booklet of FAO designs for open outboard and inboard motorboats, 5.2-8.5m); The F&J Sheet Metal Dinghy By Robert Taylor (Free plans in metric and imperial units); The Folding Kayak Builders Manual (Free plans for aluminum framed folding kayaks); Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet (Designs, design software, essays and tutorials); Free Boat Plans and Other Boat Designs for the Home Builder by Thomas J. Carducci; Free Boat Plans by Morten Olesen (Canoes, sailboats and motorboats); Free Online Plans for the Sunapee 22' Cruiser designed by Carl Gage (1935); Free Online Plans from Jacques Mertens (D4 dinghy, 14' canoe); A Free Tortured Plywood Canoe Plan and Building Instructions (In Danish); Gidge Gandy's Groovin Garvey (A 16' sailing garvey from 1929); Herb McLeod's One Sheet Skiff; Here Are Some Old Boat Plans David Beede Ran Across at a Garage Sale in Maine (Free, online); How to Build a Genuine Ozark John Boat (From Bittersweet magazine); An Index of the Boat Plans in MoToR BoatinG Magazine's Ideal Series Books; Ira Einsteen's Ira Einsteen's Free Double Paddle Dory & Herring Skiff (Free plans and building instructions for a 12' stitch 'n' glue outboard skiff); Lewis Boat Works (Free and low-cost plans for flat bottom jon-boats, skiffs and pirogues); Let a Hundred Sails Bloom (Free plans for the Egoist 5.5 meter lug-rigged singlehanded cruiser); The Mouseboats Mailing List (Discussion about building and using the Mouse and Flying Mouse family of small craft originally designed by Gavin Atkin); Mystic Seaport's Index to Vessel Designs in The Rudder, 1891-1950; The PakYak Prototype (Free online plans for a 12' truly folding kayak); Sandy Pittendrigh's Montana Riverboats (Free online building instructions for a McKenzie River style drift boat, the autocad-dimensions file costs $20); The Scow (Free online design and building instructions for a 12' sailing scow, by Andrew Gibbens); ShortyPen's Pocket Cruiser Design; Small Boat Plans From Science and Mechanics Magazine; Small Boat Self-Steering Designs (Free drawings by Walt Murray); South Haven Dory Plans (Free plans for a stitch 'n' glue one-person rowing boat that is based on the St. Pierre dory); Spira International by Jeff Spira (Free plans for a 13' banks dory to visitors who register); Sztrandka (Free plans for a 5 meter microcruiser); Treasures from the Past (Online designs from an old How to Build 20 Boats); The Turkish Amateur Design and Boat Building Portal (Free plans links as well as some online plans of their boat-design works); The Ultimate One Sheet Boat (Prism and also a light sculling training boat, both by Hannu Vartiala); Wacky Lassie (Free online plans for an instant double paddle canoe to be built and used by kids); The Yago Project (Open source plans for a folded metal 9.2 meter yawl designed by Gerd Mueller)
Design Software:: AeroHydro (Marine design and modeling software and services); AeroLogic (Loftsman/P airplane and hull lofting software); AeroMarine Research (Tunnel boat design software); The ASME CAD Directory (Free outdated CAD programs, from the American Society of Mechanical Engineeers, FTP); Autodesk Volo View Express (A free downloadable application to display and print AutoCAD® drawings without AutoCAD software); Autoship Systems Corp. (Developer of marine design software including CAD/CAM and customized load planning software); BaseLine Technology (Boat and ship designers. Baseline II hull fairing software, free demo); Baseline Technology's Engineering URL Database (Links to boat plans, engineering, manufacturing, drafting or software in support of these areas); BevelGage™ for Boatbuilders (Software that does design, geometric, and shop calculations and provides materials, tooling, and fastener information for boatbuilders, marine designers and marine surveyors); Blue Peter Marine (Hullform hull design software, including public domain obsolete version); Creative Systems, Inc. (GHS and BHS ship and boat stability and hydrostatics software); Crescent Vision Interactive (Stability Test Pro, an application to assist in analyzing incline experiment data); DEFCAR (CAD CAM software for ship design, ship, boat and yacht construction); DeskArtes (Develops and markets 3D Industrial Design software); Formation Design Systems (Maxsurf range of advanced computer aided design, analysis and construction software); Free Boat Design Resources On The Internet (Design software, essays and tutorials); FREE!ship (Freeware, open source ship and 3D boat design and modeling program); The FREE!ship How to and Tutorial Mailing List; Gregg Carlson's Hull Designer for Windows (Chined hull design program, up to six chines, expands planks, .DXF and HPGL output. Free); Gregg Carlson's Hull Designer for Windows Program, an Alternative Tutorial; Gregg Carlson's SailForm (Freeware 3-D sail visualization and design program); Harold Ginsberg's NACA Foils for Boats & Ships (NACA4GEN shareware foil generating program); HullWiz (Creates hull designs for Hull Designer for Windows from prompted user input); HydroComp Inc. (Software for marine propulsion analysis, speed prediction and propeller sizing); IMSISOFT free TurboCAD 2D; Johan Journée's Free Ship Design Software (Seaway ship motion program, ship and offshore hydromechanics programs for students); Marcus Bole's PolyCAD (A free geometry editing tool developed with a lean towards naval architecture and ship design); Mariner Kayaks (Robert Livingston's free BEARBOAT kayak design program (most suited to wood-strip construction) Matt Broze's drag prediction spreadsheet); Michlet (Software to calculates the total resistance and far-field wave elevations of thin monohulls and multihulls, by Leo Lazauskas); Naval-architecture.co.uk (Inexpensive and free software & resources for all levels of marine engineering and naval architecture, including a free section tracing application); New Wave Systems, Inc. (Nautilus & ProSurf computer-aided boat & ship design and construction software); PlyBoats (Computer Aided Design software for the design of small boats); Profili (Foil generation software); Proteus Engineering (FastYacht/FastShip, FlagShip ship design software, including hullform design, structures, powering, stability, maneuvering, and cost estimating); Rhino (NURBS modeling for Windows); Robert Lainé's Carene Hull Design Software; Robert Lainé's Sailcut Sail Design Software; Ron Holland Design (Large yachts, Kinsale, County Cork); Sailfish Yacht Analyzer™ (Sailing yacht velocity prediction software); Seapower Resistance and Power Prediction Software; The SeaSolution (A shipbuilding CAD system for geometric simulation and design especially for fairing lines and shell plates development); Stentec Software (Boat design software); Tri-Coastal Marine Software (AutoDock marine utility for AutoCAD, Atalanta integrated marine design and manufacture inside AutoCAD); UIUC Airfoil Data Site (Airfoil plotting software, airfoil coordinates database, links, more); Unfold (Free program by Doug Garmon that converts a sequence of 3-dimensional coordinates into a 2-dimensional shape); Vacanti Yacht Design Software (Prolines); Velocity (Software for designers for performance prediction and hull design); Virtual Marine Arsenal (Links to CAD/CAE/CAM software for designing of ships, yachts, boats...); Yachting Consult Engineering (MasterSHIP CAD/CAM software)
Design Training:: Centre for Marine Vessel Design and Research (Technical University of Nova Scotia); The Chalmers University of Technology Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (Gothenburg, Sweden); The Delft University of Technology (The only academic course in naval architecture in the Netherlands); The Falmouth Centre for Marine Studies Yacht Design Correspondence Programme; KORAB (The Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Students' Assoc., Technical University of Gdansk, Poland); The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design (Kennebunkport, Maine); MacNaughton Associates' Residential Yacht Design School; Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow; The Naval Architecture Program, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Daltech); The Ocean & Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. Johns); The University of California, Berkeley Ocean Engineering Graduate Group (A 1-2 year graduate program in ship, boat and offshore design); The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (Private, tuition free college that offers a bachelor of science in naval architecture and marine engineering); The Westlawn Institute Of Marine Technology (Boat design correspondence courses)