The project manager is either an outside contractor appointed by the owner to oversee the work or it is the yacht’s captain. Equally true, it could be the engineer or, as is often the case, a team effort involving all key members of the yacht’s crew.
Regardless of size or age, every superyacht will, at some stage in its life, need to be repaired, maintained or refitted according to its applicable regulation. This means that, from a shipyard’s point of view, there is a never ending stream of business waiting around the corner. Where it not for the fact that superyacht repair and refit is a profitable business, none of them would bother to compete with the other.
Fortunately for the yacht owner, there are too many superyacht specialist shipyards for them to become complacent and therefore healthy rivalry ensures they stay on their toes when it comes to acquiring new business.
NAVANTIA SHIPYARD Navantia shipyard is strategically located on the Mediterranean coast in the millennial tourist city of Cartagena. A shipyard with over 300 years of history specialised in the repair and refit of large yachts. Its large and modern facilities and services allow the performance and completion of any type of work, from yacht extensions, interior renovations, full painting, rigging, technical services to upgrades or full overhauls of engines. The yard has its own team of highly qualified personnel to meet the luxury megayacht market highly demanding standards and provide all required. The Shipyard boast its own engine factory that manufactures and overhauls Caterpillar, MAN or MTU engines, as well a fully comprehensive after sales service. For more details Tel: +34 968 12 83 40 or visit
www.yacht.navantia.es
So, superyacht refit and repair shipyards market are setting themselves up to meet not only the increase in number and size of superyachts seeking to attend in the coming years, but also, they are being forced into meeting the new complexities that superyachts present when they enter the yard. Privately and off the record I cannot find a single yard that does not acknowledge that the people they most have to impress, when seeking new business, are the yacht’s Captain and the Chief Engineer.
On the record, they deny this, claiming that it is the owner or the yacht’s manager who are the more important party. Whatever the truth, there remains a powerful element of choice that rests with the yacht’s crew members when choosing the yard to complete the work.
This means that crew need to have a grasp as to which factors they must consider when they require repair shipyard services
Commercial shipyards traditionally fall into two distinct types and these depend on the workload for which they are designed. The
two comprise of construction shipyards and repair and maintenance shipyards. But superyacht yards tend to fudge the lines of distinction somewhat and builders the likes of Feadship, Amels and Lurssen are muscling in on the lucrative refit side of the business where they can, giving those yards that do not build yachts, a run for their money.
The big boy builders have got reputation and marketing might on their side but offer little else to the visiting yacht. The repair and maintenance shipyards have got geography on their side. This type of yard is characterised by its infrastructure and available facilities. Each have landside and seaside elements. The seaside is used for repairs afloat or inside floating docks. While ashore their space is used to store and work on superyachts lifted from the water by travel lift, crane or slipway. The area ashore is also used for support areas such as warehouses, workshops, stores and offices.
Having established which type of yard is the most appropriate the next task is
I cannot find a single yard that does not admit that the people they most have to impress, when seeking new business, are the yacht’s Captain and the Chief Engineer
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