Southerly Designs has been at the forefront of high speed Aluminium and FRP composite vessel designs for over three decades.
Drawing on decades of experience designing, constructing and operating fast commercial vessels, our professional and dedicated team has forged an enviable reputation for producing robust vessels that are practical, handle well even in extreme conditions, are fuel efficient and offer comfort without sacrificing performance.
We have shipbuilding partners in Australia, Singapore, Mexico, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, Canada, Indonesia.
Our designs operate globally
Over 500 Southerly Designs from 5m to 52m are operating in diverse roles globally today.
From the early years designing the renowned Geraldton Boat Builders lobster fishing boats that dominated the 1980s and 90s Western Australia fleet, Southerly Designs have expanded and diversified our designs to suit a wide variety of applications and clients.
Southerly Designs are highly valued world wide.
Our boats are designed to work.
Southerly Designs is an established provider of quality vessel designs:
- Long range and high speed patrol vessels for multiple Australian and international military and law enforcement agencies;
- Offshore support vessels in oil and gas, construction and aquaculture;
- Pilot vessels;
- High speed fishing vessels;
- RHIB vessels for coastal rescue services & bespoke large motor yacht tenders
- Tourism, charter and luxury motor yachts.
Southerly Designs utilize an extensive range of integrated software packages:
As an early adopter of computer design technology, Southerly Designs have always tested the latest naval architecture software and CAD/CAM/CAE software. We then use the best.
Southerly Designs was a beta tester for Macsurf back in the 1980’s.
Maxsurf has become the dominant naval architecture software for hull design & stability analysis worldwide.
Southerly Designs was an early adopter of Shipconstructor software back in the early 2000’s for 3D part generation, streamlined shipyard production assembly management, & delivery of highly optimized nested plasma/router/laser cut sheets to shipyards.
Shipconstructor has become the dominant CAD/CAM naval software worldwide.
Southerly Designs typically use:
- Bentley Maxsurf suite for hull design, detailed hydrostatic and stability analysis;
- Bentley Microstation & Autodesk AutoCAD for general drawing, 3D visualisations and production modelling;
- SSI ShipConstructor for structural detailing and shipyard production drawings, nesting & build module management;
- Autodesk Navisworks 3D model for vessel structural design visualization & production management
- Ansys CAE/multi-physics for high level vessel performance prediction, seakeeping & structural engineering analysis when required.
Close consultation with owners, operators and shipyards: combined with modern technology – and our extensive database of real world boat data enables Southerly Designs to continuously deliver innovative and efficient designs to satisfied clients around the world.
A typical Southerly Design package includes:
- Performance prediction;
- 2D and 3D visualisations;
- Structural design;
- System schematics;
- Driveline: conventional FPP & rudder design, azimuth FPP, Waterjet, Surface Drives;
- Fire and safety diagrams;
- Nested cut part files;
- Comprehensive construction and approval drawings;
- Stability analysis.
With a wide range of clients globally, Southerly have designed to all major classification society rules and government regulations. We offer high quality design packages required by international classes such as ABS, Lloyds, DNV and BV, as well as to the Australian NSCV code and the requirements of any other flag state or local authorities.
Southerly Designs takes pride in delivering customised solutions that work for every client.
Our track record speaks for itself.
