Design Team: The design process has been a collaboration between the Naval Architects, the Builder and the Owner. There are about 200 construction drawings completed so far. The first 70-odd drawings were developed by the Naval Architects, the remaining 130 drawings and documentation by the Owner.

CAD Drawings: Morrelli & Melvin developed the Adagio design in 3D in AutoCAD, incorporating the overall yacht layout design developed by Carl Schumacher. We have continued the detailed design in 3D using DenebaCAD/MacOS - using the AutoCAD 3D model as the starting point. All of the examples on this website are from DenebaCAD, including the renderings.

 

 

Mold Construction: In this photo, Adagio's male mold is being constructed to laminate both hulls and the underwing as one continuous structure. We used the underwing section of the mold as a large laminating table to build all of the structural bulkheads.

That is why the right hull in the photo (the port hull mold) is unfinished at this stage. Because the cabin-back bulkhead is so large, we built the underwing mold/laminating table to extend through the space that will become the port hull mold. Once the cabin-back bulkhead was completed we could finish the port hull mold.

Database: Perhaps one-half of our design effort is reflected in a FileMaker Pro® database. The BOM is the foundation layer . There are 36 other tables, resulting in a total database size of about 18MB. There are about 100 pages of bill-of-material/weight-analysis which itemize (hopefully) every gram of construction materials, equipment, stores, spares and personal gear (and X,Y locations of same). For short we call this the BOM, which is the master FileMaker Pro® database for the project. One of the key motivations for building and updating such a detailed breakdown is to ensure that the true sailing displacement and center of gravity of the vessel are known (both before the final lines are drawn, and as construction proceeds).