Model Maker Group Plays It Safer
May 21, 2020
Italy is the largest yacht building nation in the world. Its shipyards create vessels of all sizes and shapes.
Italy is the largest yacht building nation in the world. Its shipyards create vessels of all sizes and shapes.
photo courtesy of Riva Yacht
To answer this blog’s titular question in short: Of course it does. The real question, masked by that rhetorical one, is “How much does yacht design matter?” It matters to boaters, and to those who are thoughtful enough to understand the importance of boat design in the greater context of how it represents and reminds us of our collective past, and how its halo affects other kinds of design.
Don’t let your eyes trick you: This boat isn’t sinking.
Things aren’t always what they appear, as the saying goes. Because when the boat is out of the water it looks completely different:
Italy is the largest yacht building nation in the world. Its shipyards create vessels of all sizes and shapes.
photo courtesy of Riva Yacht
To answer this blog’s titular question in short: Of course it does. The real question, masked by that rhetorical one, is “How much does yacht design matter?” It matters to boaters, and to those who are thoughtful enough to understand the importance of boat design in the greater context of how it represents and reminds us of our collective past, and how its halo affects other kinds of design.
Don’t let your eyes trick you: This boat isn’t sinking.
Things aren’t always what they appear, as the saying goes. Because when the boat is out of the water it looks completely different:
