BRUCE ROBERTS CUSTOM YACHTS Bruce Roberts-Goodson EMAIL BRUCE HAL WHITACRE  IS BACK   SAILING CATAMARANS POWER CATAMARANS CRUISING SAILBOATS Spray Sailboats POWER BOAT PLANS WORKBOATS &  FISHERMAN PASSAGE-MAKING TRAWLERS

 CUSTOM DESIGNS @ AFFORDABLE PRICES !

If you want something special then a FULL CUSTOM DESIGN may suit you. You may have seen a boat that you like and you would like to build something similar ... We can provide you with CUSTOM PLANS to build just about anything !!!  In a world where most things we own are standardized ... cars and even homes tend to be built in series so all look so similar ... this leaves your boat as one area where you can still have what YOU want.  For additional information contact EMAIL Bruce

ABOUT OUR COMPANY.

   As we said above, EVERY design you see there started life as a custom design for a particular client and we always retain the design as our property and this enables us to have much LOWER custom design fees than most other marine designers, we make our profits on resales and customization of existing designs.
   We usually have a space in one of our our design offices with the ability to handle your project and it usually  taks 8 to12 weeks to complete and deliver your custom design. We now await your detailed specifications and firm order for your project and in return we will send you our standard CUSTOM / DESIGN / ORDER for your acceptance and approval.

    We work on a 3 stage payment schedule, 33% deposit with order, 33% when the client has approved the GA and 34% when the plans are complete and ready for delivery to the client. OK, we await your instructions. Regards Bruce Roberts~Goodson, CEO & Chief Designer Bruce Roberts Yacht Design

BUILD YOUR OWN AND SAVE OVER 60% - SEE HOW BELOW ?   PRODUCTION BOATS HAVE OVER 50% OF THE COST IN LABOUR ! PLUS SEE BELOW FOR MANY OTHER COSTS THAT YOU WILL SAVE!

CUSTOM DESIGNS @ AFFORDABLE PRICES.

PLEASE READ ALL THE INFORMATION BELOW, IT CAN SAVE YOU THOUSANDS !!

Here are  just a few of the many other areas where you will save; you will buy your own materials and equipment, often at discount prices,  you will not pay Vat / IVA / Employment Taxes on your labour. If you use local tradesmen and engineers you will be paying less than the CHARGED rate of a professional boatbuilder, often paying no taxes on this labour.

For steel and aluminum boats you can employ local tradesmen at cash in hand rates. Different building methods offer different savings, for instance wood epoxy builders can mill their own timber, fiberglass builders can do all or most of the fiberglassing themselves, and of course welders can weld up their own boat.

Early in my career as a designer I built several boats using the methods and savings outlined above ... I made some nice TAX FREE profits when re-selling those boats.

Here are the main three ways you can approach building your own boat:

1. DO ALL THE WORK YOURSELF - If you are a tradesman, wood-worker, welder or fiberglasser you can consider doing all the work youself , takes longer but costs less ... you will save at least 70% on the cost of a manufactured new boat.

2. YOU DO SOME OF THE WORK YOUSELF - As above but you employ some professional labour say for welding, wood work or electrics but you still do all lot of the work yourself ... you will still save between 50% and 60% on the cost of a manufactured boat

3. YOU ACT AS YOUR OWN CONTRACTOR - Many fine examples of our designs have been built this way. You find a building site, you hire local professional tradesmen, welders, wood-workers, electricians, plumbers and mechinacs and you MANAGE the project ... you will save AT LEAST 40% on the cost of a manufactured boat. We have MANY expamples of this method. You will save BIG TIME on the Taxes, you pay the sales tax on the basic materials and not the finished product. See our web site for details ... Here is one example, the TY 620B built by Lee Simpson in California ... Lee was a farmer who had a spare building shed available and hired local help for all the trades ... Lee built his TY 60 for fraction of the cost for a similar manufactured TY 620. This boat certainly beat the 40% saving rule. TRAWLER YACHT 620  

4. CHOOSE A SMALL / MEDIUM SIZED PROFESSIONAL YARD to  custom build your chosen Bruce Roberts design. As you can often have some input into the build by supplying equipment that you buy at discount prices etc., you will still save 25% to 30% on the cost of an fully manufactured boat. PLUS as in all the above cases your will end up with EXACTLY the boat you want !

1. BUILD FROM BOAT PLANS AND FULL SIZE FRAME PATTERNS ... STOCK boat plans .. STEEL, ALUMINUM ... FIBERGLASS ... WOOD /  EPOXY ... boat plans & Patterns

are available at a low cost for - many at only (€245 EU VAT PAID) BUY NOW BUTTONoo  for you to build your own sailboat or powerboat. Over 35,000 individuals have completed their own boats from our boat plans and full size frame patterns.  All plans and patterns are available as a download to your computer & are sent as electronic files ready for you to have printed locally.
 

2. BUILD FROM BOAT PLANS AND CUTTING FILES using CUTTING FILES & boat plans ... If you want to build in steel or aluminum and you want to get your project off to a flying start then consider our Cutting files and boat plans package.  We guarantee our cutting files will work with any CNC equipment.  All plans and cutting files are available as a download to your computer or are sent as electronic files ready for you to take to you local cutting shop.  SEE  CUTTING FILES EXPLAINED    POWERBOATS or SAILBOATS

3. CUSTOM SERIES. SO YOU LIKE OUR STEEL OR ALUMINUM PLANS & CUTTING FILES DESIGNS but you do NOT want to build in Steel or Aluminum boat plans!  These CUSTOM boat plans are designed for those that wish to build from FIBERGLASS OR WOOD/EPOXY boat plans rather than from our STEEL OR ALUMINUM boat plans and cutting files. These boat plans offer you the opportunity to be involved in the design to ensure you get exactly the boat YOU want !  POWERBOATS or SAILBOATS  for lists of available boat designs that can be CUSTOMIZED just for you.  For additional information contact EMAIL Bruce