Current manufacturers and designers

• Allen Boat Company
• Baltic Yachts
  Baltic Yachts
  Baltic Yachts is a company which constructs sailing yachts. It is located in the municipality of Larsmo in Finland, where it also is the largest employer....
  
  
• Bavaria Yachtbau
  Bavaria Yachtbau
  The Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH is a German major yacht builder, with its headquarters in Giebelstadt, Bavaria, Germany. The model range consists of both sailing and motor yachts, of which especially the sailing yachts are very common. With ca. 600 employees, ca...
  
  
• Beneteau
  Beneteau
  Beneteau is a French sail and motor boat manufacturer, with production facilities in France and the United States.-History:Shipwright Benjamin Beneteau founded his company in 1884, at Croix-de-Vie, France to build sailing trawlers. In the mid sixties Benjamin's grandchildren Annette Benneteau...
  
  
• British Hunter
  British Hunter
  British Hunter is a manufacturer of sailing boats based in the Lauren Marines boat yard Southampton, England. It was formerly based in Essex, and was known as Hunter Boats Limited...
  
   (British manufacturer, formerly Hunter Boats)
• C&C Yachts
  C&C Yachts
  C&C Yachts is a builder of high performance fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats. It was founded in 1969 by a joint venture among several companies and design teams.-History:...
  
  
• Cabo Rico Yachts
  Cabo Rico Yachts
  Cabo Rico Yachts is a small manufacturer of fiberglass, aft cockpit sailboats built in Costa Rica anddesigned by W.I.B. Crealock and Chuck Paine. The US headquarters are in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sizes range from 34 to 56 feet...
  
  
• Cascade Yachts
  Cascade Yachts
  Cascade Yachts was a pioneering U.S.-based builder of fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats ranging in sizes from 23 to in length. It was founded in 1954 in Portland, Oregon by a group of local sailors interested in experimenting with fiberglass sailboat construction.-History:In 1954 the...
  
  
• Catalina Yachts
  Catalina Yachts
  Catalina Yachts is a U.S.-based builder of fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats ranging in sizes from eight to 47 feet in length. It was founded in 1969 in Hollywood, California by Frank Butler .-History:...
  
  
• Columbia Yachts
  Columbia Yachts
  Columbia Yachts is a US manufacturer of sailboats, with offices and production facilities in Southern California.-History:Richard “Dick” Valdes founded Glas Laminates, a fiberglass contract company, in 1958. Among the early products were camper shells and producing canoes for Sears...
  
  
• CW Hood Yachts
  CW Hood Yachts
  CW Hood Yachts is a boat builder, designer, and broker in Marblehead, Massachusetts. They produce a range of power and sailing vessels, from the 26 foot Wasque 26 through to the larger Hood 43, along with custom designs.-History:...
  
  
• The Downriver Boatworks Ltd.
• Dufour Yachts
  Dufour Yachts
  Dufour Yachts is a French sailboat manufacturer which was founded in 1964 by designer Michael Dufour.-History:* Dufour 365 Grand Large* Dufour 375 Grand Large * Dufour 405 Grand Large* Dufour 425 Grand Large* Dufour 455 Grand Large...
  
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• Elan Yachts
• Etap Unsinkable Yachts
• Farr Yacht Design
  Farr Yacht Design
  Farr Yacht Design, headed by Bruce Farr, is a racing yacht design team based in the United States. Its yachts measure from 25 to 125 feet . Farr develops custom and production yachts, including: interiors, sails, and hull design...
  
  
• Ferretti Group
  Ferretti Group
  Ferretti Group is one of the world leaders in the design, construction and sale of motor yachts with a portfolio of exclusive and prestigious brands of the nautical world: Ferretti Yachts, Ferretti Custom Line, Pershing, Itama, Riva, Bertram, Mochi Craft and CRN. The company initially produced...
  
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• Flying Scot (dinghy)
  Flying Scot (dinghy)
  The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. The Flying Scot was designed in 1957 by Gordon K...
  
  
• Gil's Catamaran (Southern California)
• German Frers
  German Frers
  Germán Frers is a naval architect renowned for designing successful racing yachts. He designed his first yacht in 1958. There is a design team consisting of Germán Frers and his son, also named Germán Frers, supported by a team of engineers, architects and designers, some of whom have been with...
  
  
• Hallberg-Rassy
  Hallberg-Rassy
  Hallberg-Rassy AB is a Swedish shipyard internationally known for producing exclusive, high quality sailing yachts.The yard is located in Ellös on the island of Orust, Västra Götaland....
  
  
• Hampton Yacht Group
• Hans Christian Yachts
  Hans Christian Yachts
  -History:Most designs are credited to Robert H. Perry, Harwood Ives, Scott Spragne and Tommy Chen. Boat production began in the early 1970s.-Hans Christian today:...
  
  
• Hinckley Yachts
  Hinckley Yachts
  Hinckley Yachts, founded in 1928, is a manufacturer of luxury sailing yachts and jet-powered picnic boats based in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Known for its innovation of the yachting world, Hinckley has developed such technologies as the JetStick and Dual Guard composite material along with being the...
  
  
• Hobie cat
  Hobie cat
  A Hobie Cat is a small sailing catamaran manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company. Begun as a manufacturer of surf boards in the late 1950s, Hobie began manufacturing catamaran sailboats in the late 1960s and has become the largest manufacturer of small catamarans in the world...
  
  
• Hood, Ted
  Ted Hood
  Frederick E. "Ted" Hood is a distinguished American Yachtsman and Naval Architect. He started the company in Marblehead, Massachusetts which makes sails...
  
  
• Hunter Marine
  Hunter Marine
  Hunter Marine Corporation is a U.S.-based sailboat builder and a subsidiary of Luhrs Marine Group, which also produces Silverton, Mainship, and Luhrs brands of powerboats.-History:...
  
   (American manufacturer, marketed as "Legend" in Europe)
• Hylas Yachts
  Hylas Yachts
  Hylas Yachts is a brand of fiberglass, center cockpit sailboats built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine Ltd and designed by Sparkman & Stephens and German Frers. The US headquarters are in Marblehead, MA under the name Hylas Yachts USA. Sizes range from 42 to 70 feet...
  
  
• Island Packet Yachts
  Island Packet Yachts
  Island Packet Yachts is a United States-based builder of sailing and motor yachts. They are based in Largo, Florida. The incorporated name for the company is Traditional Watercraft, Inc. Production facilities are located on nine acres of ground with of covered manufacturing space in central...
  
  
• MacGregor Yacht Corporation
  MacGregor Yacht Corporation
  The MacGregor Yacht Corporation is a manufacturer of sailing yachts, located in southern California.-History:MacGregor Yacht Co. was founded by Roger MacGregor as part of a Stanford University MBA class project in the early 1960s...
  
  
• Melges Performance Sailboats
  Melges Performance Sailboats
  Melges Performance Sailboats, is a United States company founded by Harry Melges, father of former Olympic sailor Buddy Melges. The company's headquarters is in Zenda, Wisconsin. The about six hundred existing boats are approximately evenly split between North America and Europe, with fleets in...
  
  
• Najad Yachts
  Najad Yachts
  Najad is a Sweden-based builder of yachts. The firm's full name is Najadvarvet AB. The headquarters and production facilities are located on the west coast of Sweden, in Hen%C3%A5n, on the island of Orust....
  
  
• Nauticat Yachts Oy
  Nauticat Yachts Oy
  Nauticat Yachts Oy is a manufacturer of yachts. They make traditional ketch rigged motorsailers and the pilothouse sailing yachts. They are based in Finland, and were originally owned by Siltala Yachts, but the name changed in 2005 to Nauticat which was the name given to their major yacht range....
  
  
• Nelson Marek
• Nickels Boat Works
• Pacific Seacraft
  Pacific Seacraft
  Pacific Seacraft Corporation is a Washington, North Carolina based sailboat manufacturer specializing in fiberglass monohull cruising boats. Pacific Seacraft is best known for producing the Crealock line of sailboats. These are heavy, overbuilt offshore cruising designs designed by William Crealock...
  
  
• Rex-Meyer Yachts (USA)
• Salona Yachts
• Santa Cruz Yachts
  Santa Cruz Yachts
  Santa Cruz Yachts is a U.S.-based yacht design and manufacturing company. The offices and production facilities are located in Greencove Springs, Florida.- History :...
  
  
• Select Yachts
  Select Yachts
  Select Yachts is a British boat manufacturer, making British Hunter yachts and other boats....
  
  
• Sensei Yachts
• Sparkman & Stephens
  Sparkman & Stephens
  Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with main offices on 5th Avenue in New York City, USA and offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use....
  
  
• Swan
  Nautor's Swan
  Oy Nautor AB is a Finnish producer of luxury sailing yachts, based in Jakobstad. It is known for its Swan line of fiberglass yacht. The company was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä...
  
  
• Tartan Yachts
• Tecnomar (Italy)
• Vanguard Sailboats
  Vanguard Sailboats
  Vanguard Sailboats was founded in 1967 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA by Peter and Olaf Harken. The brothers started to gain attention after their sailing hardware was used on boats that won Olympic gold in 1968 and after Vanguard supplied the Finn class for several countries in the 1976 Olympics...
  
  
• WindPearl Yachts
• Wally Yachts
  Wally Yachts
  Wally Yachts is a maritime design and manufacture company based in Monte Carlo, Monaco.-Company history:Founded by wealthy Italian businessman Luca Bassani in 1994, Wally started out primarily as a sail boat design firm and have more recently branched out into designing cutting edge motor yachts,...
  
  
• X-Yachts

Historic manufacturers and designers

• Albin
• Aloha Yachts
  Aloha Yachts
  Aloha Yachts were a range of sailing keelboats manufactured in Whitby, Ontario, Canada by Ouyang Boat Works, founded by Ti Ouyang who had previously worked for Whitby Boat Works.-The range:...
  
  
• Bristol Yachts
  Bristol Yachts
  Bristol Yachts was a US-based company which was among the first commercially successful production fiberglass sailboat boat builders. The company was founded in 1966 and closed in 1997.-History:...
  
  
• C&C Yachts
  C&C Yachts
  C&C Yachts is a builder of high performance fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats. It was founded in 1969 by a joint venture among several companies and design teams.-History:...
  
  
• Cal Yachts
  Cal Yachts
  Cal Yachts was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa, California, headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders...
  
  
• Camper and Nicholsons
  Camper and Nicholsons
  Camper and Nicholsons are the oldest leisure marine company in the world, producing and managing yachts for the world's richest people.As Camper and Nicholsons was founded at Gosport, Hampshire before organised seawater yachting had even started, John Nicholson of the founding family once overheard...
  
  
• Cape Dory Yachts
  Cape Dory Yachts
  Cape Dory Yachts was a Massachusetts based fiberglass boat builder which operated from 1963 to 1996.- History :Over the years the company was building boats, they produced several thousand ranging from 10 to 45 feet in size....
  
  
• Cavalier Yachts
  Cavalier Yachts
  Cavalier Yachts was a yacht manufacturer in New Zealand, with production in New Zealand and designs also licensed to Australia and Japan. In the 1970s Cavalier were the largest production boat builders in the Southern Hemisphere.-History:...
  
  
• Coronado Yachts
  Coronado Yachts
  Coronado Yachts was a US sailboat manufacturer located in Southern California which produced several popular lines in the 1960s and early 1970s. Many hulls are still sailing and racing today.-History:...
  
  
• Creekmore, Raymond
  Raymond Creekmore
  Raymond Creekmore was a prolific artist, author and sailboat designer.Creekmore was an American artist who, in the beginning of his career, "wandered" extensively, using his experiences in observation and his direct and expressive draftsmanship as vehicles to bring the sensitivity and ways of...
  
  
• Down East Yachts
  Down East Yachts
  Down East Yachts was a manufacturer of sailboats headquartered in Santa Ana, California. According to Coast guard records, the company was founded on August 5, 1974, and went out of business on July 12, 1983. The company was founded by Bob Poole, who had previously worked for Columbia Yachts...
  
  
• Ericson Yachts
  Ericson Yachts
  Ericson Yachts, Inc. was a pioneering builder of fiberglass yachts. Ericson is now out of business, but its designs have been reproduced periodically by other manufacturers.-History:...
  
  
• Gil's Catamarans
• Grampian Marine Limited
  Grampian Marine Limited
  Grampian Marine Limited was a Canadian-based builder of cruising fiberglass monohull sailboats. It was founded in 1959 and was the first fiberglass boat builder in Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Jakobson & Petersen
  Jakobson Shipyard
  The Jakobson Shipyard, Inc. was a shipyard involved in manufacture of tugs, ferries, submarines, minesweepers, yachts, fireboats and other craft, based in Brooklyn, New York from 1926–1938, and Oyster Bay, New York from 1938-1984.-History:...
  
  
• Jakobson Shipyard, Inc.
  Jakobson Shipyard
  The Jakobson Shipyard, Inc. was a shipyard involved in manufacture of tugs, ferries, submarines, minesweepers, yachts, fireboats and other craft, based in Brooklyn, New York from 1926–1938, and Oyster Bay, New York from 1938-1984.-History:...
  
  
• Jensen Marine
  Cal Yachts
  Cal Yachts was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa, California, headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders...
  
  
• Herreshoff, Nathanael
  Nathanael Herreshoff
  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff I , was an American naval architect-mechanical engineer. "Captain Nat," as he was known, revolutionized yacht design, and produced a succession of undefeated America's Cup defenders between 1893–1920....
  
  
• Morgan, Charley and Morgan Yachts
  Charley Morgan
  Charley Morgan is an American sailboat racer and designer. He is best known as the founder of Morgan Yachts.He was born in Chicago in 1929 and raised in Florida. When he was 17, Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. Morgan...
  
  
• Newbridge Yachts
• O'Day Company
• S2 Yachts
  S2 Yachts
  The sailboat building division of Tiara Yachts located in Holland, Michigan . S2 sailboats were built from 1974 through 1987- S2 Models : Various pictures of S2 sailboats can bee seen .-External links:* * * * * *...
  
  
• Spaulding
  Myron Spaulding
  Myron Spaulding was a renowned American sailor, yacht designer and builder and concert violinist in Sausalito, California.-Life:...
  
  
• Varne Marine
  Varne
  'Varne' is a British Marque of sailing yacht built in Essex by Varne Marine in the 1970s and 1980s.- Varne 27, Varne 850 & Weston 8500 :The most notable model produced was the Varne 27, designed by Duncan Stuart, and its successors the Varne 850...