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![]() DWYD D.W. Yacht Design is a naval architecture design office with an engineering department located in Cannes. We propose to our customers, private or professional, a broad range of services in naval architecture, from the conceptual phase to the complete development of the boat, for sailing yachts as well as motor-yachts. With the most modern technological tools and equipments, our structure offers a privileged contact and a great responsiveness. D.W. Yacht Design is organized rounds two naval engineers and architects, pillars of the office. Brunehilde DERDA: Engineer (ESIM-Marseille) and specialized in naval architecture (ENSAN-Nantes) and Philippe WOHLUTER: Engineer, Naval architect after a training course at the ENSAN in France and at the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology in the United States |
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Butch Design I was surprised to notice that I have now been a full time professional yacht designer for 29 years. For the first 17 of those I was Ron Holland’s partner and shared responsibility for over 300 designs. Together we helped redefine the modern cruising yacht. It is an interesting time to be designing boats, to have worked with the old style and then to be able to develop concepts to take advantage of new materials, sail handling and electronic equipment. And this development still continues. The last fifteen years have also seen cruising yachts getting bigger and bigger as we develop sails and hardware to handle even greater loads. The designs I have been involved with, either alone or in collaboration with others, cover some of the most significant large cruising yachts of our time, and ... |
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![]() Marc Lombard The company, with naval architect Marc Lombard as General Manager, founded in 1982, and designs a wide range of pleasure and commercial craft. Projects span custom racing mono and multihulls as well as production craft, including the Privilege range of cruising catamarans. Mono and multihull sailboats , racing and cruising, in all materials ranging from 16 to 165 feet . Custom or Production units , also a few “selfbuider” sets of drawings. Power boats mono and multihulls. Multihull for commercial transport (métropole et export). Work boats (export) Marine Engeneering in all aspects. Hydrodynamic research and speed analysis. Refitting of large yachts. |
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