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.