This is where the shipwrights, designers, and managers begin to take your dreams from drawings to tangible elements we can touch and feel.

Many yacht buyers want to visit the shipyard during construction to see their yacht being built. The stages of construction best suited to a visit is near the later part of the process. While noisy, dusty, and hot, buyers can get a good sense of the structure and begin to imagine how it will all look when finished. If time for stone and fabric selections remain, this allows buyers the time to visit the suppliers to choose slabs themselves. With technology today, we also can do this via phones and virtual meetings for buyers that cannot make a visit to the shipyard.

The basic steps of the Build Process are divided between the major milestones: hull construction, engine and major systems installation, support systems to include electrical and plumbing, and finishing. At each stage of construction, inspections, and review of the project with Project Management and Shipyard Department heads takes place. Additional inspections with any Classification representatives and all major systems are coordinated with our Project Manager.

Step 1

Specifications and options selection, contract review, and contract signing.

Step 2

Shipyard will begin the order process for engines, systems, materials, and develop a production schedule to achieve each milestone.

Step 3

Hull and deck lamination begins

Step 4

Once hull is complete, the main bulkheads and stringers, engine beds are installed.

Step 5

Large systems and tanks are installed, engines and generators installed, bow and stern thrusters installed, plumbing and major wiring scheduled.

Step 6

Interior furniture and cabinetry are begun once hull and deck are joined.

Step 7

Wiring, plumbing, and other systems for completed areas are installed.

Step 8

Surfaces, finishes, custom details, and installation of hardware, fixtures, lights.

After all this, the ship may look finished, but significant activities remain before the build is complete and the yacht ready for cruising. These are:

Step 9

Systems checks, QC, testing, and final touches.

Step 10

Performance Trials – scheduled operations and performance checks are taken, systems tweaked to ensure proper performance, vendor review and reports for their major systems such as engines, generators, stabilizers, etc are written and recorded.  Each of the major vendors, from propellers to engines will provide a report to document performance and ensure your installation is ready for warranty activation when final delivery occurs.

Step 11

Shipyard review of final testing and QC checks, owner sign-offs on acceptance of the vessel before shipping

Step 12

Finally, shipping to the buyer’s home cruising port is scheduled and your new yacht is offloaded in the home cruising port for commissioning and additional performance checks before official delivery.

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