Rob Schofield is a Naval Engineer and Naval Architect with over 40 years of active experience in design and engineering of boats, yachts, ships, composite aircraft, and naval craft. Rob has been doing complete designs and providing structural design and hands-on consulting for over 50 well-known boat manufacturing companies, the U.S. Navy and the American Bureau of Shipping.
His design commissions have included such varied projects as a good number of 100-155 ft. There are over 250-plus marine craft in Rob's design archive files, from small boats to 180 foot superyachts, commercial small passenger vessels, and naval and commercial steel ships. Rob has been a marine and composite structures litigation expert witness in over 102 court cases to-date, a good number of patent-infringement suits, and has been certified by Federal trial judge as a marine accident reconstructionist.
He also has testified in many cases involving dynamic stability of high-speed boats. For the last 33 years, he has been teaching seminars in design of composites for naval engineers for military, marine, and industrial structures in the U.S., Australia, and Europe.
His design commissions have included such varied projects as a good number of 100-155 ft. There are over 250-plus marine craft in Rob's design archive files, from small boats to 180 foot superyachts, commercial small passenger vessels, and naval and commercial steel ships. Rob has been a marine and composite structures litigation expert witness in over 102 court cases to-date, a good number of patent-infringement suits, and has been certified by Federal trial judge as a marine accident reconstructionist.
He also has testified in many cases involving dynamic stability of high-speed boats. For the last 33 years, he has been teaching seminars in design of composites for naval engineers for military, marine, and industrial structures in the U.S., Australia, and Europe.
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Rob has had structural design or naval architecture design consulting projects with the following well-known production boat building companies: Filippetti Yachts (Italy), Fittipaldi Yachts (Brazil), SeaRay Boats, Zodiac, Tracker Marine, VectorWorks Marine, Luhrs and Hunter Marine, Grady White, Cobalt Boats, Cruisers Yachts, Doral Boats, Marlin Yachts, and many former OMC Boat Group companies, including Chris Craft, Stratos, HydroSports, and Javelin.
Astondoa Shipyards, Santa Pola, Spain - Rob did overall hull design, design and analysis of propulsion components, weight estimates, and structural design for ABS Class Approval - 43, 51, and 63 ft.
Astondoa Shipyards, Santa Pola, Spain - Rob did overall hull design, design and analysis of propulsion components, weight estimates, and structural design for ABS Class Approval - 43, 51, and 63 ft.
4/85 to 10/86 - Wausaukee, Inc. Manager of Composites Engineering (and still consulting for them)- Supervised construction of two large fiberglass stacks, 23 tanks up to 3000 gals., and sonar domes for U.S. Navy's MCM-2 & 4 ships under subcontract (N00024-83-C-2142) to Marinette Marine Corp., shipbuilder for this class.
Designed, marketed, cost estimated and supervised fabrication of a large number of fiberglass and composite structural components for automotive, military truck, and industrial customers.
Designed, marketed, cost estimated and supervised fabrication of a large number of fiberglass and composite structural components for automotive, military truck, and industrial customers.
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