"What is a Sport boat!!??" 

An explanation (based on performance characteristics and not emotion) of what really constitutes a sailing sport boat.

Cost Effective Research & Development

One of the problems any yacht design company faces when it embarks upon a new project is being able to assess the vessel's performance characteristics. This article is a description of how VGYD designed and optimized their highly successful Mount Gay 30.

Laminate Analysis - Upgrading with Reduced Risk

A description of the state of the composites industry and the impact it has on boat building projects; a description of the analytical tools presently available.

Water Ballast - Race Boat Applications

A description of how water ballast on a sailboat works, the advantages and disadvantages, and a description of the system on the VG-Mount Gay 30.

Custom Boat Designs Made Affordable

Kit plan packages are the perfect boat building projects for the amateur or professional boat builder alike.

And now for something completely different ...........Water Mansions

“Form versus function” is always a balancing act, and no where is that more applicable than in the design of a house boat that is styled after an Italian Villa.

The long awaited production version of the VG-Open 30 has just been splashed in Cape Town, South Africa. This exciting 30 footer was developed as an affordable high performance blue water racer for the short-handed sailing enthusiast.

Lake Balaton, Hungary is the setting for the latest in performance sailing design from VGYD. The VG-35XS is a unique hybrid of ideas combining the radical speed potential of an around-the-cans rocket with the proven reliability of an offshore racer.

VGYD offers a broad range of engineering services including structural analysis in composites and metals, ABS and ISO scantling development for both power and sailing yachts, mechanical engineering and detailing, hull form development, and powering and performance predictions.

VGYD offers state-of-the-art appendage refits, whether it's a light weight composite rudder, a lifting or canting keel arrangement, or the reconfiguration of an existing keel, our proven foil geometries are engineered and optimized to give you the desired results.

The VG-GP42 is the first of the ORC "box rule" boats to be designed by Van Gorkom Yacht Design.This powerful and easily driven hull form, combined with a vast sail area and a generous righting moment, will rival the performance of many modern day 50 footers.

Prices on selected packages have been reduced! The kit-plan-packages offered by VGYD are the perfect boat building projects for the amateur or professional boat builder.  Also offered as pre-assembled components.