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Hoek Design

Founded in 1986 by Andre Hoek, Hoek Design is one of the world’s leading offices for yacht design, naval architecture and engineering today. Based at the heart of the Dutch yacht building industry, it offers a comprehensive range of styles, from truly classic to ultra-modern. Hoek Design Naval Architects BV Grote Kerkstraat 23 1135 BC Edam The Netherlands Telephone: +31 (0) 299 372853 Fax: +31 (0) 299 371519 [email protected]

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GRACE III SES YACHTS

Tc 128-3 s/y ‘grace iii'.

Grace III is a customised version of the Truly Classic 128 limited series designed by Andre HOEK, Hoek Naval Architects B.V. Grace III is built for an experienced yachtsman who has been heavily involved in all details of the yacht, especially her interior and exterior design. She incorporates an owner’s cabin aft, three guest cabins and two crew cabins, one of which is a ‘flex’ cabin for use during charters. The interior design and styling are by Hoek Design with décor and soft furnishings by YM Design of London, all in close cooperation with the owners. The interior joinery features simple mahogany panelling, oak floors and off-white painted deckheads and bulkheads in all cabins. The exterior has been customised with a single main deckhouse open to the lower saloon and dining area to create a great feeling of space. On the aft deck there are two separate cockpits, one a working area, the other for guests to relax. There’s a dining table for twelve. The separation of the cockpits works well, providing guests and children not involved in sailing a safe and comfortable place to relax. Technically, Grace III is built to world class standards and is equipped with a Scania main engine, Kohler generators, Lewmar hydraulics systems and a controllable pitch propellor by Hundested, as well as features and equipment normally found aboard a sailing superyacht of this size.

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World’s coolest yachts: Reliance

• August 3, 2022

We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. Andre Hoek nominates Reliance

My choice would be the yacht Reliance of 1903 designed by the famous Nat Herreshoff. I read the book Temple to the Wind a long time ago and could not put it down. That yacht was, for its day, such an extreme design and engineering feat, without computers and all designed and built in a short time. Herreshoff was the master in those days.

The yacht measured over 200ft overall with just 90ft of waterline [the huge overhangs were to take advantage of the rating rule when heeled], it displaced 189 tons and had a sail area of 1,500m2 (16,000ft2)! It was massive and with wooden masts that tipped 200ft above the water, an 84ft long wooden spinnaker pole and cotton sails.

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She was the first yacht with winches below decks and despite that still had a crew of 64 to handle the gigantic sailplan.

Reliance won the America’s Cup against Shamrock III , a beautiful yacht designed by William Fife. Those were the days of extreme but beautiful yachts!

Reliance stats rating:

Top speed: 20 knots LOA: 61.3m/201ft Launched: 1903 Berths: 0 Price: $175,000 Adrenalin factor: 80%

Over the last four decades Andre Hoek has designed or optimised more classic style yachts than perhaps anyone, from traditional Dutch leeboarders to his highly successful Truly Classic and Pilot Classic ranges, through to stunning superyachts such as Adele and Elfje – plus of course his work on three of today’s latest J Class yachts .

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Andre Hoek on superyacht design in the age of climate change

AMSTERDAM – Superyacht builders are at pains to improve environmental performance, says Dutch yacht designer Andre Hoek. They focus “on substantive reduction of environmental impacts” by shifting to electric and hybrid.

“A large sailing yacht is being built now designed for no fossil fuel dependency,” Hoek says in a recent Metstrade newsletter interview. “Another 60m sailing yacht … will have a 5MW lithium battery bank weighing 25 ton, the same weight it would usually carry in fuel.”

Owner of the Hoek Design studio of the Netherlands, Hoek is the jury chairman of the DAME Design Awards at the annual Metstrade show in Amsterdam – the world’s biggest B2B leisure marine equipment event. The jury will take entries from mid-July for the awards contest at the 2022 Metstrade (Nov. 15-17).

In the Metstrade newsletter interview, Hoek offers a glimpse of marine sector issues in play today that draw jurors’ attention. He makes these points:

• Diesel engines are becoming more of a backup than a primary power source as battery technology makes fast tracks. “Some diesel-electric builds are being constructed to be upgradeable when the technology and regulatory requirements catch up.”
• Starting with diesel-electric power using an electric propeller makes it easier in the future to swap out the engines for a fuel cell, a battery bank, or a combination of the two. “There’s a 100m motor yacht under construction with two engine rooms, one for conventional engines, the other for hydrogen power.”
• Sailing yacht designers increasingly work on motor yachts “because we have always had to focus on efficiency.”
• Classification societies must do better. They can insist on a lot of onboard lithium battery capacity. Current class rules “are so difficult that clients have asked us to change the specification back to lead-acid cells and greater engine capacity. That’s the opposite of what you want to happen!”
• A hefty equipment headache: poor installation, “which may not directly be the equipment maker’s fault. Good design of the equipment and any accompanying resources “can help improve the situation.”

For more insights:  https://www.metstrade.com/news/sustainability/reducing-environmental-impact-improving-design-superyachts-equipment/

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Designers Hoek Design & Nauta Yachts

In the early-to-mid 1980s big yacht building grew and solidified into a serious, self-contained industry that required designers, and in 1986 Hoek Design, Nauta Yachts, Andrew Winch Designs, and Bill Dixon Design all entered the breach. The influence of these leading design teams has shaped the modern superyacht, in all its variations.

‘What surprised me is in all those years since there have not been that many new design offices,’ says Andre Hoek, founder of Hoek Design. ‘It’s not an easy market [in which] to design and build a business like this; you have to be passionate about yachting, focused and a little lucky.’

Indeed, Hoek’s background describes a determination to work in yacht design, even when it was not an easy path.

After gaining a naval architecture degree in Holland and serving an apprenticeship at C&C yachts in Canada, Hoek was unable to find work at a design studio. So he took a job as a salvage engineer at a Dutch company, where he supervised the enormous submersible ships that carry offshore drilling platforms. In its own way the job was excellent training for a superyacht designer, with an abundance of engineering, stability and organisational work.

‘During those years I was also always involved in yacht design, but not on a professional basis – I did it more as a hobby for clients who were friends and family. I was optimising a racing class of leeboard yachts that are popular in Holland, yachts I raced myself for a very long time.

‘We optimised sailplans, stability, performance, foilshapes in leeboards and more, and later on designed new yachts in this style. Through the past 25 years more than 300 of these yachts were built to our designs.’

In 1983 he left his job to take an MBA in business administration, but his growing reputation as a designer interfered with his plans.

‘When people heard I’d quit my job I got a lot of enquiries asking if I could do boats. It took me three years to do the MBA and when I finished I was already working with four people – it turned from a hobby into a business.’

Hoek Design is also active in motor yacht designs, and is working on various projects including the 50m and 65m Hollander projects. But it, too, is best known in the sailing arena and like Mario Pedol of Nauta Yachts, Hoek believes his sailing yachts have a definite character.

‘You can definitely recognise the boats that we do,’ says Hoek. ‘We have an emphasis on performance and also on looks – how it looks on deck, how well-balanced the profile is.’

In particular, Hoek Design has become renowned for yachts offering classic styling and modern performance. Its early analytical work, optimising Dutch leeboard sailing yachts, caught the attention of big-yacht owners.

‘We got clients asking if we could design a boat in a similar way – a classically styled yacht optimised for performance – but ocean-going. That’s why the early Truly Classics came out. It was a design that looked like a J boat, but with the in-water configuration of a modern sailing yacht.’

The Truly Classic series was inspired by a yacht created in partnership with Michael Peacock, former captain of the British Admiral’s Cup team. Launched in 1994, the yacht Truly Classic (now Zephyr) won the Spirit of Tradition Class at Antigua Classic Week three years in a row. She is one of Hoek’s favourite yachts.

‘She was extremely successful on the racecourse but was also a very good cruising yacht – a very nice combination,’ he says.

Another favourite is the 55m ketch Adele, launched in 2005.

‘We developed an interior with an owner’s deckhouse, a large cockpit and an owner’s cabin all connected – a privacy concept,’ describes Hoek. ‘She proved you could do circumnavigation or go to the Antarctic on a really beautiful-looking yacht. You don’t have to go for an ugly looking boat, you can do this in style.’

Nauta Yachts

Mario Pedol, founder of Nauta Yachts took a similarly roundabout route to the profession. He began working as an agent for Oyster Marine in Italy in 1978 and became increasingly interested in the design of superyachts. When he learned that a new school of design had opened in the north of Italy, he left his job and signed up.

When he finished his studies, he spent time working abroad for Scott Kaufman in New York. On his return to Italy Pedol founded Nauta Yachts with his business partner Massimo Gino.

‘For the first six years of Nauta we were designers and constructors, we were selling finished yachts to clients. But in 1993 Italy suffered a political and economic catastrophe and the market stopped,’ he recalls. ‘We decided to take our design expertise to the market – selling not a product but our experience, know-how, design services and project management services.’

At this stage, Pedol’s expertise was in sailing boats – and the design house is still best known for its work in this field. Innovations such as carbon fibre and changes to competition rules governing hull shapes have changed the way Nauta makes yachts, but Pedol’s philosophy of ‘balancing performance and comfort’ has remained the same. My Song, one of his favourite yachts, embodies it beautifully.

‘The owner has a passion for racing and cruising. It is difficult on a yacht to combine these, because cruising means comfort and comfort means weight, but for racing you need speed, which means lightness,’ says Pedol.

‘The way we’ve done this is by making some contents of the yacht removable for racing. With four days of crew work it can be turned from a cruising boat into a racing boat.’

The company’s most famous foray into motor yachts is project Light, an 80m commission that is both visually and physically light. It was well-received within the industry, but the 2008 economic crash put the project on hold. In any case it has led to a commission for another 100m+ motor yacht.

That, perhaps, is the mark of this golden group, the first fully-fledged crop of yacht designers – not naval architects or interior designers – to enter the arena, after Jon Bannenberg pioneered the profession. When it comes to yachting, they have taught us how to do it in style.

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HOEK BROKERAGE

Founded in 1998, initially as a service to existing clients developing a new yacht with Hoek Design, the team at Hoek Brokerage realised there was a need to represent clients with yachts which meet the Hoek Design philosophy. Working closely with the Design office, the Brokerage has a comprehensive understanding of the niche market that Hoek Design has created. The Hoek Brokerage team has many years’ experience between them, with backgrounds in design, management and the building processes and can offer valuable expertise and insider knowledge of the performance and qualities of the yachts they sell and charter. Our main priorities are to establish strong relationships with clients, owners and their crew, offering them a personal service and making sure their experience is not only an easy one but a pleasurable one, along with listening to new clients and working with them to find the most suitable yacht for their needs, whether it is a new design or pre-loved. For more information, visit  http://www.hoekbrokerage.com ,  contact Pieter van der Weide on +31 299 315506 or email us at  [email protected] .