Yacht is a kind of high – class durable consumer goods for water entertainment.
It combines sailing, sports, entertainment, leisure and other functions in one, to meet the needs of individuals and families to enjoy life.
In 1660, when Charles II succeeded to the throne of England, the people presented a hunting boat named “YACHT”, which became the etymology of today’s YACHT. Before that, boats were manufactured for practicality. Since the birth of yacht, pleasure sailboats came into being, so Charles is naturally the ancestor of yachts.
In the 18th century, it became a fashion for princes and rich people in Britain and Europe to compete with each other to show themselves by sailing boats.
In the 19th century, the British used propellers and steam engines on yachts.
By the 20th century, all the new power machines of modern industry had been put into yachts, and even the old wind-powered sailboats were equipped with low-power motors and self-guided steering instruments.
In the middle of the 20th century, after the Second World War, western developed countries derived yacht clubs in the tertiary industry to solve the problem of yacht berthing, yacht has been more vigorous development.
From the first King Charles II hunting and fishing boat to Paul Allen’s Octopus, the world’s largest luxury yacht, the history of yachting has been celebrated in the western world for more than 300 years.
Nowadays, Western countries put almost all the most advanced technology on their yachts.
Almost all the materials used to build the yacht are used. The yacht equipment even exceeds the car, and the yacht has become the second only walking and playing tool in the world today.
In developed countries, yachts, like cars, are mostly owned by individuals, while in developing countries, yachts are mostly operated as parks and tourist attractions for people to consume, and a small amount of them are also used as working means of port supervision, public security and border defense.
The essential feature of a yacht as a means of entertainment distinguishes it from high-speed boats and tourist passenger ships as means of transport.
Now, our narrow sense of yachts more refers to modern yachts with motors, the world yacht industry output value has reached $40 billion to $50 billion a year.
The characteristics of yacht design features: fashion and comfort, yacht as high-grade, is a symbol of the buyer’s identity and grade, in addition to the interior design decoration requirements of luxury, unique personality, but also reflect the characteristics of the buyer’s fashion grade;
Safety and stability, which is the first factor to be considered by buyers, because the speed of the yacht is fast, in order to ensure safety, the yacht design of stability requirements are very high;
Speed, yachting is often seeking a kind of excitement, speed is required, so should choose to use materials and equipment to help speed.
Production features: Exquisite design, especially luxury yacht is a symbol of consumer identity, status, so the design requirements are very high.
Many yacht manufacturers hire world famous yacht designers to design or purchase the design of world famous designers to enhance their visibility and competitiveness.
Strict material selection, equipment and accessories, yacht for hull material, craft equipment, boat inner decorative parts have special requirements, such as the boat body material has enough stiffness and strength, not easy to deformation, damage, the equipment requires the use of the yacht is special equipment, materials and hardware items such as built-in than ordinary ships with more advanced, more use teak wood,
Metal outfitting parts use a large number of stainless steel products, gold products and silver products and a variety of shockproof, anti-seawater corrosion glass.
Fine production and decoration.
Yacht in addition to the requirements of beautiful appearance design, high-grade internal equipment parts, interior decoration requirements are also very particular, a lot of decoration work in the field, manual decoration is given priority to, difficult, long cycle.
It is because of the high quality of materials, equipment and accessories used in yacht, large amount of manual production, strong technology and complexity, so that its cost is expensive, and it has become a product with high added value and high profit.
Structure of the yacht: The yacht is mainly composed of hull, main engine, transmission system, navigation and control equipment, lifesaving equipment and equipment, fire fighting equipment and equipment, radio communication equipment, etc.
Its composition and functions are as follows: 1. Hull: FRP, aluminum or steel material.
2. Main engine: generally using internal combustion engine, and can be divided into gasoline engine and diesel engine.
The BASIC structure OF a built-in gasoline engine IS THE same AS that of a DIESEL engine, which uses a fuel injection system to inject fuel into a cylinder and then ignite it with hot air.
Gasoline engines use a spark to ignite the vaporized mixture in the cylinder.
3. Transmission system: consists of multiple parts, including gearbox (wave box), thrust rotor, propeller shaft (tail shaft), tail shaft barrel bearing and propeller.
4. Propeller: When choosing the suitable type of propeller, both machine and ship type must be taken into account.
A propeller is generally defined by its pitch and external diameter, which is the distance that any point on the blade moves forward when the propeller rotates one week.
The outer diameter of a four-bladed propeller is the distance from the tip of one blade to the opposite blade tip, and the outer diameter of a three-bladed propeller is the diameter of the circle drawn as the propeller rotates.
Therefore, when choosing propeller, should choose the appropriate pitch and positive diameter.
The diameter of the propeller is usually determined by the position in which the propeller is mounted.
The selection of propellers with appropriate pitch requires the use of several propellers with different pitch values, a tachometer to measure the number of propeller movements and a speedometer to measure the speed of the ship.
The propeller that produces the fastest ship speed at normal speed is the most suitable propeller.
Yacht materials for its basic structure materials, mainly divided into wood, glass fiber reinforced plastic and metal three categories, among which steel is the most common metal materials.
At PRESENT luxury YACHT IS glass steel structure, this KIND OF structure TECHNOLOGY is advanced, luxury degree is higher, THE United States, Britain, Italy and other countries yacht all use this material.
Yacht manufacturing uses a variety of advanced processing technology and materials in today’s world, such as polymer, basalt aerospace multi-mixed materials and fabrics, vacuum perfusion molding (aircraft manufacturing) technology;
The yacht has multi-mixed material, multi-mixed structure, multi-functional characteristics;
Advanced control systems such as intelligent sounding, GPS positioning, automatic steering, automatic monitoring and automatic switching of internal functions are adopted in the control and electronic system, making it a new material intelligent yacht with international leading level, among which fiberglass structure is widely used in yacht manufacturing.
