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Jaron Ginton

Jaron Ginton’s relationship with boating started when he joined the Navy at the age of 18. After serving five years as a Marine Officer he worked for three years as a captain of a 24m schooner. While Jaron was logging more than 50,000 sea miles (including an Atlantic crossing in an old wooden sloop), the decision to study naval architecture was slowly forming in his mind.

After graduating from the Higher Institute of Technology in Haarlem, Holland, Jaron first worked for a design office for large yachts, but in 1991 he joined forces with Ferri Weber, Interior Designer, to form Ginton & Weber Naval Architects in Haarlem.

Jaron is an innovative designer and knows how to take advantage of modern technology – small wonder that MultiSurf is his design program of choice. He likes to push the envelope, make a program work as hard as he does himself and the results are remarkable. He has frequently served as our Beta tester and given us much valuable feedback and ideas as to how to improve our software.

"Over the years, we have enhanced our design methods such that every project is another step forward. Our main trend is to use 3D design tools exhaustively, not only for the main parts of the ships, but also for creating special details, etc. We develop a MultiSurf model into a large source of accurate data, which is used in the design and production process ensuring that all parties involved are using the same "virtual base".

Jaron is not one who’s afraid of big challenges. His very first project using MultiSurf was to draw the hull and superstructure for a 92m motor yacht. To quote Jaron, as he described the design process in our June 1997 newsletter, "The program makes it all possible, even with time pressure. To draw the design, we used 83 surfaces (including RuledSurfs, BlendSurfs, BloftSurfs, SubSurfs, Fillets and TranSurfs). We specified 153 sections, exactly where we wanted them, which gave us tremendous accuracy and efficiency throughout the design and building of this complicated vessel." The result was a model with all difficulties solved: hull with bulbous bow; skeg faired to hull; step-in deck; rounded bow; cylindrical transom; transom edge rounded to the hull with a taper; trim wedge vanishing into the sides and a deckhouse with many details, rounded edges, etc.
The vessel, Evergreen, has since been built and delivered to the owner.

(To see larger images of these designs, click on thumbnails.)

Another exciting Ginton & Weber project is a 40m expedition boat with a completely new design, which reflects the styling of the beginning of the century. This ice-classed vessel with a steel hull will be registered as a commercial charter ship under the Dutch flag to sail in the Northern waters. Its hull and deckhouse were designed and fully faired with MultiSurf. What makes the hull shape of this ship special is its simplicity; the hull below the knuckle is mainly a single MultiSurf surface with very few master curves. This simplicity made the fairing nice and easy without any forcing or "oscillations". Says Jaron, "After the hull was built, I talked to other designers and I realized that they regard such a hull shape as very difficult to design in CAD. They did not have MultiSurf as their tool".

Ginton & Weber collaborated with another Dutch design firm, Guide de Groot Design, to draw a 20m aluminum planing craft and a 27m aluminum semi-planing motor yacht (two pictures on left). In these complex models, MultiSurf was used, besides hull and deckhouse, to generate "slip-way" aft, stern door, internal complex bulkheads and members, and even the hull longitudinal frames.

Dr. John Letcher has these words from many design discussions with Jaron: "Jaron has a design philosophy that I think is an important key to his great success using MultiSurf. I would capsulate this in the phrase "Build shallow, build strong." To get fast, robust, and accurate models, he constantly strives to minimize the number of layers of dependency. For example, when building the several levels of a motoryacht superstructure, he starts by defining an independent deck surface for each level. Then the dependency of each piece of superstructure only goes back as far as the deck surfaces immediately above and below it. Another example: when his hull design is complete and "frozen", he'll put a snake on the hull surface to serve as main deck edge; but then he'll make a BFitCurve on the snake, and BFreeze it so it becomes a free-standing BCurve. Then he can develop his deck and superstructure in a model that is free of all the hull and appendage detail. This philosophy leads to models that are simple, clean, predictable and easy to understand."

We at AeroHydro are very pleased to see MultiSurf put into such excellent use by this talented naval architect and look forward to the next innovative Ginton & Weber design.

Ginton & Weber Naval Architects
Zijlweg 61
2013 DC Haarlem
Netherlands
Phone : +31-23-542-1985
Fax : +31-23-532-8344
ginweb@wxs.nl