Marine Craft, Vessels, Aircraft Design and Engineering

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. high speed yachts and passenger craft, helicopters, composite kit aircraft, hovercraft, patrol boats and fiberglass minesweepers. As the Gibbs & Cox Structural Group Chief Washington Office, He also managed the initial concept-level structural design of the Navy’s current Aleigh Burke Class destroyer.

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.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

He was the voting U.S. representative for developing the new ISO 12215 structural standards for European marine craft, was a member of the American Bureau of Shipping’s Small Vessel Committee and current member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (U.K.) Small Craft Committee.

Rob is a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and American Boat & Yacht Council. He was formerly secretary of the Structural Plastics Research Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of American Society of Naval Engineers, and was twice a South East Section Vice President for the Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers.

Engineering Registrations:
European Engineer (#08120GB) registered by FEANI (Brussels) for the European Union
Chartered Engineer (#352565) registered by RINA (London) for the United Kingdom.

Contact Information: E-Mail:
RASNA@RASchofield.com
Address:
4105 Lake Washington Road
Melbourne, Florida USA 32934
tel & fax# 321-255-8331
mobile# 321-917-5100