François Vivier Naval Architect
Links
- My main partners
- Boat builders
- Chantier du Guip : The French leading traditionnal boatbuilder with two building sites : Ile aux Moines and Brest
- Bayside wooden boats : an australian boatbuilder, which is building Aber (go to "projects").
- Marc
Vuilliomenet : a mediterranean boatbuilder (Saint Raphael) of cold moulded boat with beautiful brightworks. He has built an Ebihen.
- Olabe : a boatbuilder in the spanish Basque country.
- Ben Ullings : In the Netherlands, a builder of small boat on my design as well as Iain Oughtred designs.
- Suppliers
- Icarai : France, supplier of kits, plywood, timber, epoxy products, fittings, sails, trailers for home builders.
- Classic Marine : UK, traditionnal equipment for classic boats.
- Toplicht : Germany, equipment for classic boats and traditionnal boats.
- A l'Abordage, la quincaillerie de marine pour la voile traditionnelle et classique.
- Magazines, editors
- Wooden
Boat, the american reference for wooden boats
- Classic
Boat, the British magazine for classic boats
- Watercraft, an excellent magazine for designing boats, building boats, using boats, with a preference for small boats
- Le Chasse-Marée, the French magazine for traditionnal boat and maritime history.
- Llagut : spain, books in spanish on traditionnal boats
- Softwares
- Naval designer, an excellent hull form design tool I am curently using
- Delftship : (ex Freeeship) an excellent and new sofware for ship design
- Directories
- Others
- Nautical dictionary, a very complete dictionary of nautical terms
- European maritime heritage
: a non-govermental organization for private owners of traditionnal
ships, as well as for maritime museums and other interested bodies.