Low Tide

Yacht Designer Tad Roberts' Web Log

The Perfect Coastal Motorboat

In 2010 I was involved with a group that wanted to design and build “The Perfect Coastal Motorboat”. A nice idea, group design, but in my experience it doesn’t work. The pushy-argumentative people always get their way and the others follow along. But any product “designed” by a group of non-designers will end generic in the extreme. Because the group of amateurs have no design vision, nothing pulls the product together and makes it stand out. Anyway the result was a pretty nice (very average) 37′ boat. The whole concept fell apart when local builders could not compete with production boats coming out of China.

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