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| Originally Posted by BarryClay Ok, and I agree, so what is your solution to engine bay design?  . |
Well, have persons involved that actually have rebuild engines at sea and have worked on larger vessels for longer periods of time where not everything went as supposed to.
Modern technology allows to build a complete virtual 3D tour of the vessel before even one sheet of metal is cut or ordered. Have those images looked at and investigated by experienced people would be a better way. Take the new London Heatrow terminal 5 building as an example. Only after re-investigating and re-creating the 3D images they found out that the walking escalators would have to be build inside the terminal or that the terminal design-phase needed to be altered. Otherwise there was no way that they could place the walkways and escalators. Now and we are talking of the biggest airport-buildings being constructed in the last few years and with a very high level of architectural skill on board the project. Why not repeat it in the yachting industry.
The current designers use this already for interior and exterioir designing and hydro-dynamic testing, why not extend it just that little bit further. Most of the time complex situations need the simplest of solutions, but youmay need to look at it from a different viewpoint.
THAT should be the real talent of a succesfull designer / architect. And history has proven this over and over again.
The best idea's are generated when under pressure, so people that needed to perform ordinary tasks at out-of-the-ordinary places or times are the best sources of experience.
IMHO it all boiles down to experience with working in and on boats and later having evolved in designing them. I don't know how many of the current designers have actually this type of people on their team, but they should be considered absolutely key. And obviously this is not just for the engine-room design, but goes for every aspect of yachting.