The Builders' Guide
Yacht Brands & Builders
Every great charter starts with a great shipyard. Learn what each builder stands for, explore their signature models, and see the yachts you can charter or buy right now — matched live from our fleet.
Production & Semi-Custom Yards
Series-built ranges with named models — the yachts you can learn once and find again anywhere in the world.
Azimut
ItalyThe world's largest luxury yacht builder
One of the world's largest production yacht builders, part of the Azimut|Benetti Group, with ranges from 12m day boats to the 38m Grande Trideck.
Est. 1969 · 61 for charter · 340 for sale
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Benetti
ItalyItaly's original superyacht house
Italy's oldest superyacht builder, part of the Azimut|Benetti Group, building semi-custom and full-custom motor yachts from 24m to over 100m.
Est. 1873 · 37 for charter · 43 for sale
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Custom Line
ItalySemi-custom superyachts, Ferretti-built
Ferretti Group's semi-custom superyacht brand: planing Custom Line series and the displacement Navetta series, 26-43m.
Est. 1996 · 19 for charter · 60 for sale
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Ferretti Yachts
ItalyThe definitive Italian flybridge
Flagship flybridge motor yacht brand of the Ferretti Group, building 15-30m planing yachts.
Est. 1968 · 47 for charter · 120 for sale
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Horizon
TaiwanTaiwan's answer to the European yards
Taiwan's largest luxury yacht builder, based in Kaohsiung, known for the fast-displacement FD series designed with Cor D. Rover, plus the E, V, RP and PC power-catamaran lines from 18m to 50m.
Est. 1987 · 13 for charter · 52 for sale
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Lagoon
FranceThe world's catamaran, by some distance
The world's largest catamaran builder, part of Groupe Beneteau and based in Bordeaux, with sailing cats from 12m to 24m and the Sixty 7 and Seventy 8 power catamarans.
Est. 1984 · 91 for charter · 22 for sale
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Maritimo
AustraliaLong-range luxury, Gold Coast engineered
Gold Coast builder of long-range luxury motor yachts, founded by Bill Barry-Cotter, with the M-series flybridge and S-series sedan lines.
Est. 2003 · 11 for sale
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Pershing
ItalySpeed as a statement
Ferretti Group's high-performance open yacht brand, known for 40-knot-plus sport yachts.
Est. 1985 · 9 for charter · 121 for sale
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Princess
United KingdomBritain's widest luxury range
Plymouth-built British motor yacht builder with the widest luxury range afloat: V Class sportbridge, S Class sport yachts, F Class flybridge, X Class Vista and the Y and M Class superyachts, 12m to 40m.
Est. 1965 · 22 for charter · 202 for sale
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Riva
ItalyThe most glamorous name afloat
Storied Italian marque famous for its varnished-mahogany runabouts, now building luxury yachts from 8m to 54m within the Ferretti Group.
Est. 1842 · 15 for charter · 140 for sale
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Riviera
AustraliaAustralia's blue-water builder
Australia's largest luxury motor yacht builder, Gold Coast-based, known for offshore-capable flybridge and sport yachts 12m to 25m.
Est. 1980 · 5 for charter · 39 for sale
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Sanlorenzo
ItalyMade-to-measure since 1958
Italian builder of made-to-measure yachts: SL planing, SD semi-displacement, SX crossover and Steel superyacht lines, 24m to 73m.
Est. 1958 · 54 for charter · 155 for sale
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Sunseeker
United KingdomBritain's performance icon
Britain's best-known luxury motor yacht builder, Poole-based, building 15m to 49m performance yachts.
Est. 1969 · 43 for charter · 214 for sale
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Custom Superyacht Yards
One-off builds from the world's great shipyards — no two yachts alike, every one an event.
Abeking & Rasmussen
GermanyEngineering-led, quietly exceptional
German yard in Lemwerder building fully-custom superyachts 60m-125m, with a reputation for engineering-led builds and SWATH vessels.
Est. 1907 · 5 for charter
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Amels
NetherlandsLimited Editions, unlimited polish
Dutch yard within Damen Yachting, best known for the Limited Editions semi-custom superyacht range 55m-80m.
Est. 1918 · 3 for charter · 3 for sale
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CRN
ItalyOne-off superyachts from Ancona
Ferretti Group's full-custom steel-and-aluminium superyacht yard in Ancona, building one-off yachts from 50m to 90m.
Est. 1963 · 9 for charter
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Feadship
NetherlandsThe Dutch gold standard
Dutch alliance of Royal Van Lent and Koninklijke De Vries, regarded as a benchmark for fully-custom superyachts 40m to 110m+.
Est. 1949 · 12 for charter · 4 for sale
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Heesen
NetherlandsFast aluminium, Dutch precision
Dutch builder of semi-custom and custom aluminium and steel yachts 50m-80m, known for fast lightweight hulls.
Est. 1978 · 13 for charter · 2 for sale
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Lürssen
GermanyThe world's largest superyachts
German yard behind many of the world's largest fully-custom superyachts, from 60m to over 180m.
Est. 1875 · 4 for charter · 1 for sale
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Oceanco
NetherlandsDutch builder of giants
Dutch custom yard specialising in 80m-140m superyachts, including some of the largest sailing yachts ever built.
Est. 1987 · 4 for charter · 1 for sale
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