Established in 1912, De Voogt was one of the original founders of the Feadship organization. Today 58 permanent staff members and a number of freelance specialists cover every discipline of yacht engineering and yacht design: naval architecture, mechanical engineering and interior design drawing. The close relationship between De Voogt and the yards ensures a fundamental understanding of the construction techniques of the builders as well as the utmost quality in design, engineering and construction.

Francis Gumbs, Manager of Naval Architecture at De Voogt writes:

"For over ten years, De Voogt Naval Architects - Feadship's high-tech design and engineering center in Haarlem, The Netherlands - has been employing the Autoship and Autohydro programs for use in developing preliminary design concepts for our superyachts, right through to final lines drawings and stability calculations.

On our 60.35m (198') Blue Moon project, we depended on Autoship to help us develop the hull lines we were looking for in this luxury yacht. The hull geometry is easily exported into Autohydro so we can run all stability calculations necessary to ensure that these yachts meet and exceed stability requirements when operating in various loading conditions.

We have recently upgraded our Autoship System programs to the latest 2006 versions and look forward to using the new features on our forthcoming projects. Currently, we are exploring new concepts (e.g. the future concept Feadship 'X-stream' - as shown below) and expect that new features like the Features Patches™ and Edge Mate™ tools now in Autoship 9 will help us to do this easier.

Having the Technical Support Department at Autoship Systems readily available to provide us with answers to any pressing questions helps to keep us ahead of our challenging delivery schedule."

Autoship Systems Corporation is a marine software developer based in Vancouver, Canada. For over twenty-five years, ASC has been making state-of-the-art software design solutions for naval architects and marine engineers around the world. More recently, Autoship Systems has been providing world-class load planning systems and loading instruments to the marine shipping industry. For more information email products@autoship.com