Immediate Future Plans of macnaughtongroup.com
Introduction
Some of these potential plans for the future are quite immediate. Some are not. We are working on them in proportion to your apparent needs. Some of these projects could go faster with outside investment. None of them require it. However, if you ever do want to invest with us please read the legal disclaimer at the bottom of the Investment Opportunities navigation page.
MacNaughton Yacht Designs
At present MYD is one of
the larger design firms in the world. As near as we can tell any amount of
custom design work is available to us. The size of the firm and the number
of projects we do depends almost entirely on how many really top people we can
find who want to work with us. Therefore expansion will depend almost
entirely on the number of yacht draftsmen and yacht and small craft naval
architects we can find to work here. At present we can supervise two
draftsmen at a time. We could probably add one full fledged designer per
year for the foreseeable future if we could find enough to do so. We would
expect within the next year or two to be to the point where we could probably
supervise up to four draftsmen at a time.
We are gradually working on a kit
boat program starting with some of our smaller very popular liveaboard and
voyaging yacht designs. These kits will be absolutely complete right down
to people's choices of finish colors. Every piece of material and hardware
will be pre-cut or pre-cast and included. All the builder will have to do
is assemble the parts. Even the building jig will be included. These
vessels are intended to be built almost entirely using hand tools, since all the
labor except final assembly and finishing has already been done. While the
specifications of the kit and likely its marketing would be under our control,
actual production of the kits will only be done in house in so far as is
necessary for quality control. We will welcome businesses who want to
actually produce these kits or components for them and especially hope that they
will locate here in the Eastport area.
Yacht Design School
We continue to revise and
expand our course in yacht and small craft naval architecture in response to our
own research, the needs of the students, the needs of the industry and the
suggestions of many. While we believe it to already be the most advanced
course available today, we are constantly finding ways to improve.
Recently we have added two elective courses in Computer Assisted Design based on
the Rhinoceros(r) software. We are likely to add additional courses in
rendering and animation as well. We have acquired an educational site license
for Computational Fluid Dynamics software and Finite Element Analysis software
and will be developing courses, research programs, and publications in that area
as well.
Publishing
Again the scarce resource
here is simply finding the people. We are reviewing and putting on the web
site more and more books all the time. We hope to get to the point where
we can market many smaller publications in directly downloadable form. We
have ventured into the production of publications on CDs and expect this to
expand. At some point we wish to index all the non-fiction books that we
sell and recommend and make this library accessible page by page on line both so
that books can be examined before purchase and so that Yacht Design School
students and others can do research. Because of the limitations of
indexing and accessing information page by page we feel free that just as those
who go to libraries and bookstores where they can look through the books as much
as they wish tend to find that they wish to buy copies for their own libraries
this ability to look up items of interest but not print or read the entire book
will stimulate sales. The more we sell the more resources this generates
to develop more publications and pay their authors so this should all end up
benefiting the industry immensely.
The Liveaboard Catalog
We need more people
trained in web site development to run this area. Our knowledgeable
equipment reviews and free advice are all the promotion this will ever need and
we expect that this will someday be a very large business serving the community
of serious cruising people.
Yacht Brokerage
We used to do this as
people asked us to sell their boats and find them boats and there are a number
of very happy people out their cruising, living aboard, and voyaging today
because in one way or another we assisted them in finding the right boat.
Nevertheless at the moment this exists only as a free service helping people
find the right boats. We simply no longer have enough time to seek out the
wonderful vessels that are out there, get the information on them and their
designers on the site, and handle all the negotiations and paper work.
Sooner or later we will find a person or people who will enthusiastically work
on these aspects under our direction and brokerage will do well again.
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