Welcome to Bray Yacht Design And Research...Making Dreams Come True Since 1974

Our clients come to us with their hopes and dreams for a ship that will meet their specific needs. Our task is to take those dreams and combine them with experienced, knowledgeable design to create a vessel that will exceed their expectations. Safety, performance, and comfort are key factors in the design. Working closely with the client ensures that the vessel reflects their personal choices as well as including the most technologically advanced design features. Our team of design professionals will be happy to meet with you to learn your requirements and evaluate how best to bring together your needs and our skills to give you the vessel of your dreams.

Once your design is under way, we can assist you in the selection of a builder, and supervise construction of your vessel until launch. Also available is model testing of the design to confirm desired parameters, such as sea keeping abilities, speed and powering requirements. After launch, sea trial supervision and testing to confirm stability parameters are also available.

Designing boats has never been an exact science-it still contains a bit of art and magic blended with the technology. To confirm that the blend of art and science are working the way they should, much of our work is tested with both open water and test tank model tests. Scrutinized and evaluated, the vessel is put through its paces at the model stage to ensure optimum performance once built and to avoid potential disappointments. Once the results are in, the design is optimized, and construction of the vessel can proceed with total confidence.

Patrick J. Bray
Naval Architect