ABOUT OUR PLANS

Why should you purchase a Waller Designed Plan instead of another design ?

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We place our reputation on the quality of the plans we provide. Not only are our designs of a high standard, but the printed plans themselves are high quality, comprehensive and very complete.

The boats

• All Waller designed boats are exceptionally strong, and are generally more strongly constructed than many similar designs on the market. We want our vessels to be able to stand up not only to the rigors of every day use, but also to the worst of nature, and the wear and tear of time. We want our boats to still be around in 40 - 50 years time. 
• Design quality - all Waller designed vessels are designed on tried and true principles which have withstood the tests of time. We design safe, seaworthy family boats, and do not employ any strange, unproven or unusual ideas in our boats.
• Proven track record - Waller designed boats have crossed oceans in the worst of conditions, undertaken extensive coastal voyages in all conditions, coming through unscathed, and have proven to be excellent sea boats, both comfortable, strong and fast.
• Re-sale value - being from the board of a qualified yacht architect, Waller designed boats  can be assured of retaining good value, and achieving a good re-sale value (subject of course to market conditions), assuming that they have been well built to begin with.

About Our Stock Plans

The Full Building Plans

• Drawings in either large scale A1 sheets, or A3 builders format (depending on the boat).
• Drafting to a very high standard and degree of accuracy, and in clear, concise and familiar 2D format.
• Full dimensioning wherever necessary.
• Clear, comprehensive and understandable building notes and specifications.
• Materials lists.
• For computer designed vessels, DXF files on disk for laser or router cutting of molds, where these are necessary or appropriate.
• Reasonable plan prices.
• Backup during the building process.

• Poor quality drawings and hand drawn sketches.
• Piles of very interesting, but barely useful photographs to make up for the lack of plan detail. We provide the plan detail as well, and put the photos on our web site so you can look at them before you decide.
• Sketchy, incomplete information.
• Guesswork!!!.

Some designs include full size templates (smaller designs). Some designs include CAD/CAM disks for the laser or router cutting of mould frames (larger designs where patterns are not practical.) These vary from design to design. All full stock plan prices include backup from this office via mail, telephone or email

The Study Plans

We provide study plans in 2 formats.

1 - Standard Study Plans

These consist of:

• A selection of actual plan sheets reduced to A3 size. By reducing in size we are able to send more sheets whilst still retaining clarity and readability. Typically these will include a sail/rigging plan to allow preliminary quotes, a layout plan, profiles, and a couple of sample construction drawings.
• A materials list and sail plan to allow a preliminary costing.
• A written run-down on the design, its features and characteristrics, and a breakdown of the full plan content for the particular boat.

These are available for some of our designs, and come as a single A4 document.  For more information see our  Electronic ePlan page

These study plans are in A4 eBook format and contain as much, and generally more information than the standard study plans. The main differance is that the drawings are re-formated so that instead of having several drawings on a single sheet, the eBooks have many more drawing sheets (A4) each of which contains a single drawing. All drawings are clear and concise. 

No doubt you will have many questions about a boat which cannot be answered by a simple study plan, however we are only too happy to answer more specific questions by phone or email.
 

How are plans delivered.

Our plans are delivered either by Post/Courier, or electronically via email or Internet download.
Electronic plan packages are identical in content to our printed plans sets, and are provided as either single PDF files (eBook format Study ePlans), or as Zip files containing PDF files.

Electronic Plan Packages

Electronic versions of study plans (Study ePlans) are are downloaded by you direct from Mike Waller Yacht Design, and will be in your possession within minutes of your purchasing them.

Electronic versions of full building plans will be either sent to you as an attachment to the email from Mike Waller Yacht Design confirming your purchase, or your confirmation email will contain a link which will allow you to download them directly from the Internet (Some of our full plan packages are very large, and some mail servers have size limits for attachments.) Normally your confirmation email will arrive within 24 hours (1 working day) of your purchasing your plans.

Posted or Courier delivered Plan Packages

All printed study plans are delivered by standard mail within Australia, and Airmail to other countries. Drawing sheets are A3 (1/2 scale) and documentation is A4. 

Full printed building plans are delivered by standard mail within Australia (1-2 days) and by either Express Courier (plans > $1000.00 Aud.) or Airmail (plans < $1000.00) to other countries. Full building plans are delivered in either protective tubes or protective envelopes, depending on format.

All full building plan drawing sheets are printed on bond paper in A1 or A3 format, depending on the design.
Full building plans which include electronic files (DFX or DWR) for mould or bulkhead cutting will have those files supplied on a USB data stick or CD disk, which you may supply direct to your chosen laser or router cutting service should you prefer not to make them yourself. Plan documentation (specifications, building manual,materials list etc) for these plans is included on the data USB stick or disk in  PDF A4 format, and may be printed out on any home printer. Printed copies of documentation will be supplied at the builders request.

Full building plans which do not include electronic files  for mould or bulkhead cutting will include documentation (specifications, building manual, materials list etc.) printed on A4 paper.