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| Yacht Design School Brochure
(contains the tuition costs) Enrollment & Software Ordering |
Yacht Design School is primarily a distance learning
institution, though we usually have a few students in residence here. Please read the material in the Brochure first
and then browse the lesson contents pages. This will suggest questions which you may find
the answers to in our frequently asked questions. You
may enroll online and receive Lesson One at any time or enroll
through the mail. You may purchase drafting
tools and supplies online as well. We are now the major supplier of spline weights, sometimes called batten weights, ducks, or
whales in the world. All books recommended
for the school both in print and out of print can
now be ordered through us if you wish. While we are primarily a
distance learning school, you may also study here in Eastport if you wish. "The education, and career, that you don't have to go into debt for." - Tom MacNaughton "Genius is learned behavior" - Tom MacNaughton |
| Degree Program in Naval Architecture with a
Specialty in Yacht & Small Craft Design Course Outline |
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| Student News | Additional Elective Courses & Internships |
| Rhino Level One Training. This new course is a general introduction to the Rhino CAD package, which is being rapidly adopted by the world's yacht design firms and schools of yacht design as a major part of their CAD solutions. This is a good preparation for the more yacht and small craft design specific Computer Assisted Design Course below. You will receive a printed manual. Other training materials and tests are exchanged via email attachments. Use the standard form to enroll. This would be recommended as a prerequisite to the "CAD Course" below for those who would normally take a course in any new program rather than teach themselves using the manuals and tutorials. If you are comfortable teaching yourself how to use new programs, you can probably go directly to the "Computer Assisted Design Course" below. Complete Tuition is $695. An Educational or Commercial version of the Rhino Software is necessary to access the model files used in the training exercises. | |
| Yacht Design School - Computer Assisted Design Course. This course makes a good add on to the Yacht Design School degree program in yacht and small craft naval architecture for those wishing to gain some CAD experience. It is intended to teach the use of the Rhino CAD package in yacht and small craft naval architecture as thoroughly as possible. This extraordinary design tool is the new standard for yacht design firms world wide and is being rapidly adopted by all of us who teach yacht design as well. Some students, especially those outside of North America, are electing to take this course first and then do the entire main curriculum using on screen design rather than using any manual drafting. Use the standard form to enroll. Complete Tuition $899. | |
| Finite Element Analysis - This advanced topic course for advanced students, graduates, and practicing naval architects is planned, but will not be available for some time. | |
| Computational Fluid Dynamics - This advanced topic course for advanced students, graduates, and practicing naval architects is planned but will not be available for some time. Students will not only learn the principles of CFD but will also participate in studies designed to benefit the entire student body and to be made available to the profession as a whole. | |
| The Boat School - For those of you who want to learn traditional wooden boat building, modern wood and epoxy boatbuilding, fiberglass construction and construction in more exotic composites, this school will get you the education you need to get an entry level job in the field or the practical knowledge that is so helpful as a student of YDS. Like YDS this is not a high priced school and has a lot of advantages. This school is operated by Husson College a truly excellent private college with a strong emphasis on the professions. | |
| Boatbuilding & Restoration Internship - Many students have asked us to help them find ways to increase their experience around boats and boat structures. Since we normally have at least one restoration project or building project underway. We are happy to set up a combination of study and practical work on our projects. Time spent on the project will be credited toward tuition on the YDS course in yacht and small craft naval architecture if the student desires.. New! | |
| Fulltime Design Internship - For students who have shown especially good progress in the YDS degree program and are willing to commit to extremely concentrated work we now offer a very limited number of apprenticeships at MacNaughton Yacht Designs with a scholarship program providing room and board. There are only a very limited number of these special learning experiences open. Students must commit to working very hard in the office at real world projects which are chosen to advance their learning experience rapidly and are applied to special lesson tests devised for the intern program. These are real world projects with real world schedules. Because students will not be as fast as fully trained designers they will have to commit to long hours of work on the projects assigned and will still have additional work they must do to fullfill the remaining requirements of the course. Upon graduation these students will have preferential consideration for permanent positions with MacNaughton Yacht Designs should they desire them. If they prefer to work for other firms they will probably have an especially good chance at the job of their choice since they will have not only the degree but also an extensive amount of real world work experience. | |
| Summer Design Internship – for those who have completed sufficient lessons in the Yacht Design School course to be reasonably acquainted with drafting. Interns will work on actual design projects under the direct supervision of the design staff of MacNaughton Yacht Designs. They will pay for board and room but will not be charged for actual instruction time since they will be working on actual projects which have some economic benefit to the design firm. | |
| CAD Software - In conjunction with our new YDS CAD Course, or separately we provide students with the Rhino software and the Flamingo rendering plug-in for which pricing packages are given on the CAD Course page |
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