Owen Clarke Design provides services as consultant racing yacht designers and engineers to private owners, project managers, yards and professional teams worldwide. Our competences also include performance development consultancy, appendage design, composite and metal hardware engineering design for new yachts and refits. The full range of our design tools and staff can be made available. Contract terms are negotiable but are typically based on one of four models:
a) Fixed fee, for a fixed contract delivery or contract duration
b) Fixed fee for one build, plus licence royalties
c) Licence royalties only
d) Daily, weekly, or monthly short-term contract rates
Examples of consultancies completed include the in-service development of the record-breaking yacht Mari Cha 4 and single task projects as small as the design of a single piece of deck hardware, to design and engineering of a rudder for a 30m maxi: