Vripack
Naval architecture
UNDER ONE ROOF
Dick Boon's Sneek studio, founded in 1961, and the expedition yachts that defined it.
In 1961 Dick Boon founded Vripack so that yachts could be designed under one roof. Vripack says his Doggersbank series earned him the title "Father of the Expedition Yacht". The studio's headquarters are at Oppenhuizerweg 2 in Sneek. It now has 40 designers, engineers and naval architects, and its portfolio runs to more than 8,000 projects. Creative directors Bart M. Bouwhuis and Marnix J. Hoekstra lead it. Vripack handled the naval architecture, exterior and interior of the 54.85-metre Al Waab, delivered by Alia Yachts in 2021, which won three prizes at the 2022 BOAT Design & Innovation Awards. It did the same for Royal Huisman's 52-metre sportfisher Special One, which won Best Naval Architecture for semi-displacement or planing motor yachts in 2025. Amica Mea, a 46.33-metre Royal Hakvoort from 2004, was built to a design by Vripack.








