Our Team

The team that will create this magnificent vessel is headed by the renowned Robert Perry. Bob has more boats sailing the oceans than any other designer in the world. Bob will be onsite a good deal of time. Learn more about Robert Perry.

Founder Ivan Erdevicki started his career as a designer and engineer working for some of the world’s most respected American custom yacht yards and design offices. His first personal designs attracted attention with their unique styling, reliability and performance. His talent and studies in naval architecture, mechanical engineering and yacht design, hands on experience in yacht construction and rich boating experience on variety of vessels, created a designer with uncommon combination of art and engineering.

In the past 10 years, more than 85 boats were built to Ivan’s designs ranging from custom tenders and work boats, racing sailing boats to mega sailing yachts and motor yachts. The goal was always to meet client’s expectations and visions through creation of truly artistic, beautiful and elegant sailboat and powerboat designs of the highest quality, supported with uncompromised engineering in every detail. Nowadays, Erdevicki signature is synonymous with unique, high quality elegant designs.

Rob is a Naval Architect and Consulting Engineer with over 45 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 engineering and hands-on consulting for over 50 well-known boat manufacturing companies, the U.S. Navy, Customs & Border Patrol and the American Bureau of Shipping. He has been a marine litigation expert witness in over 118 court cases to-date. Rob’s design & construction commissions have included such varied projects as a good number of 155 ft. high speed yachts and passenger craft, helicopters, composite kit aircraft, hovercraft, patrol boats and fiberglass naval minesweepers. He also managed the initial concept-level structural design of the Navy’s latest DDG-51 Class destroyer.

There are over 250-plus marine craft in Rob’s design archive files, from 12 foot canoes to 180 foot superyachts and large tonnage naval and commercial steel ships. For the last 38 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 Engineering in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

He was the U.S. representative for developing the new ISO 12215 structural standards for European marine craft, is a member of the American Bureau of Shipping’s Small Vessel Committee and 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 and Marine Engineers. Rob also is currently registered as European Engineer (#08120GB) in the European Union and Chartered Engineer (#352565) in the United Kingdom.