On Friday, August 24, Hodgdon Shipbuilding presented James Anderson, Engineering Manager of SP Gurit / High Modulus (USA), as their new head of the Design and Engineering department.
Luxury charter yacht SCHEHERAZADE by Hodgdon Yachts
After several years of successful collaboration between Hodgdon and SP Gurit / High Modulus, James will be leaving the engineering firm to join Hodgdon‘s existing yacht building design and engineering team of 11 and take over its leadership on January 1, 2013. James brings a breadth of superyacht knowledge and experience in the structural engineering of advanced composite construction to Hodgdon’s already broad experience base.
James holds a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University in the UK and has served in a variety of consulting and management roles in a structural engineering capacity including some of the world’s most notable superyacht and aviation projects.
James has a special connection to Maine and Hodgdon, as he met his wife while both were consulting on a Hodgdon project and were engaged while on a canoe trip in Maine. James is an avid outdoorsman though since settling down is less likely to repeat his more extreme outdoor feats such as having climbed Kilamanjaro and high bungee jumping.
The excellent working relationship between SP Gurit / High Modulus and Hodgdon will likely continue as the demand for both supplemental structural engineering and SP Gurit’s SmartPac ® kits warrants.
James will be present with the Hodgdon team at the Monaco Yacht Show.
