It is in the design of your yacht's interior that our earlier rigorous discussions with you pay the largest dividends. Except for the first, exterior view of a yacht, the interior is the vessel's most visible part, often the one that elicits the greatest input from owners and their families. And interior construction represents the most labor-intensive aspect of building a yacht.
When we compare the finishing of a yacht's interior with, say, hull construction or mechanical installations, the interior demands a disproportionate amount of time. That's why GCMNA plans interior spaces with such painstaking detail well in advance of construction. Planning saves execution time and prevents change orders, which are costly and can skew the completion schedule.
Why is building a yacht's interior so time consuming? Unlike a house, a yacht's shape is not rectangular, so furniture, cabinets and lockers must be fitted into the hull's and superstructure's curvatures. In addition, the design may have to work around some essential equipment, say, the hull reinforcements for stabilizers.
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Many large yachts contain custom-made cabinetry and furniture with inlaid woods, wainscotings and wall paneling, custom galleys and helm stations. So the interior demands exact woodworking and wood finishing, much of it by hand.
Specifying the carpentry work
Earlier in the design process, we prepared a specification list for each of the living spaces, as well as samples of the "show cabin" allowing many different choices of materials. You identified specific woods, finishes, fabrics, hardware and surface textures. These selections are now translated into drawings with installation instructions.
The designs specify bunks and berths, cabinetry, vanities, helm stations, doors, moldings and staircases. Appliances and their precise dimensions are inserted into the designs. Along with the joinery, we draw and itemize such materials as countertops, teak decks, and teak or other wood flooring.
Some of the drawings form the basis for CNC data which can simplify sawing miters, panels, joints, corners, cutouts and moldings. In addition, with CNC technology, we can determine how to get the most out of a slab of wood and thereby save on expensive materials.
Our detailed 3-D drawings with exact measurements and representations of styling details allow much of the joinery work to be completed in a workshop rather than onboard, so multiple tasks can progress simultaneously.
Upon request, we can supervise the build sequence of all segments of your yacht.
When we compare the finishing of a yacht's interior with, say, hull construction or mechanical installations, the interior demands a disproportionate amount of time. That's why GCMNA plans interior spaces with such painstaking detail well in advance of construction. Planning saves execution time and prevents change orders, which are costly and can skew the completion schedule.
Why is building a yacht's interior so time consuming? Unlike a house, a yacht's shape is not rectangular, so furniture, cabinets and lockers must be fitted into the hull's and superstructure's curvatures. In addition, the design may have to work around some essential equipment, say, the hull reinforcements for stabilizers.
View Video - 2.2MG
Many large yachts contain custom-made cabinetry and furniture with inlaid woods, wainscotings and wall paneling, custom galleys and helm stations. So the interior demands exact woodworking and wood finishing, much of it by hand.
Specifying the carpentry work
Earlier in the design process, we prepared a specification list for each of the living spaces, as well as samples of the "show cabin" allowing many different choices of materials. You identified specific woods, finishes, fabrics, hardware and surface textures. These selections are now translated into drawings with installation instructions.
The designs specify bunks and berths, cabinetry, vanities, helm stations, doors, moldings and staircases. Appliances and their precise dimensions are inserted into the designs. Along with the joinery, we draw and itemize such materials as countertops, teak decks, and teak or other wood flooring.
Some of the drawings form the basis for CNC data which can simplify sawing miters, panels, joints, corners, cutouts and moldings. In addition, with CNC technology, we can determine how to get the most out of a slab of wood and thereby save on expensive materials.
Our detailed 3-D drawings with exact measurements and representations of styling details allow much of the joinery work to be completed in a workshop rather than onboard, so multiple tasks can progress simultaneously.
Upon request, we can supervise the build sequence of all segments of your yacht.
