Director for Stability & Statutory at Houlder Ltd; Chartered Naval Architect and specialising in vessel stability
A week on from a great couple of days at The Superyacht Forum for Houlder Limited. Pleasure meeting new people and re-connecting with others. Particularly enjoyed the directions on sustainability, meeting the Water Revolution Foundation's YETI, the open discussion on yacht incidents and the great quick-fire format of the VRIPACK DESIGN Night Out. One slide stood out from all the information presented - showing that yachts spend just 10% of their time cruising. This almost exactly mirrored interesting incident data presented by CHIRP. It left me thinking... so much of a yacht's stability compliance is focussed on when it is cruising in "seagoing loading conditions". The conventional Departure and Arrival conditions. So do we need a re-focus on stability compliance when the yacht is not cruising? When it is spending 90% of it's time going nowhere? Certainly something worth thinking about. - Please reach out if you would like an independent appraisal of your yacht's stability booklet. - Please contact Houlder Limited for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering consultancy services. - Credit to the Water Revolution Foundation for the slide below.
