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| About Vripack Yachting | ||
| History Dick Boon, President of the company, became an independent naval architect in 1961: three years later, he had established Vripack Yachting International. Boon originally had a partner in this venture, but his untimely death - within a year of the company's foundation - left Boon, a secretary and two draftsman to handle not only the design and main contracting of all the company's project's, but also the sales side of the business. Despite these difficult and unfortunate circumstances, by 1968 Boon had completed the designs for the Doggersbank series of 11-37 metre ocean-going motoryachts. This design proved to be immensely popular, and more than 470 have been launched to date. Although the Doggersbank was, and still is, one of Vripack's most successful designs, it had one drawback: its reputation became so widely spread that many people thought it was the only thing Vripack Yachting International did. Far from it !  Between 1965 and 1987, the company designed and built numerous custom-built yachts for clients all over the world. In 1987, Boon decided to drop the company's main contracting activities in favour of pure naval architecture, planning and construction supervision, as well as representing clients on projects. Since that time, Vripack-Yachting International has been involved in the production of 20 foot power sloop to 200-foot superyachts - and everything in between from sailing yachts to commercial used vessels. In addition to all of the regular services involved in yacht design, Vripack extended it's services by playing an active roll in the building of the yacht. This is accomplished by delivery of a complete building kit of the entire yacht in-regardless its size. Beside motor and sailing yachts also commercial vessels are in the scope of Vripack-Yachting International services. In the last 5 years Vripack has been active in developing designing and supplying drawing & building kit for : Yards and Owners dealing with cockle harvesters, shrimp harvesters, fishing cutters, Coastguard patrol vessels, Coastguard exploration vessels high speed Pilot vessels etc. The main goal to achieve for these yards and owners was and still is to limit the building cost and shorten the total building time, until now, they all succeeded on that. And Vripack Yachting is still improving to gain for even better results. Vision We don't imitate...., we innovate ! Our principles are easy: Creativity is allowed only during the design stage. To keep building
costs as low as possible the production drawings are finished of
all areas that might affect other disciplines. Then the highest
level of productivity can be achieved without modifications or creative
building. http://www.vripack.com |