Custom Yacht and Mega Yacht Construction

At the first stage, however simple this may sound, we need a person to person discussion. Even if it’s for the first time one has come across yachting, the most important thing is to understand his/her vision. Everything is important: the speed (sailing speed, rate of sailing, maximum design speed), how many days one is going to spend on board, assumed budgets for construction and yearly maintenance, quantity of guests, region of sailing, level of customization and much more. We do also take into account the desired terms of delivery, variations of payment, availability and readiness of the hulls, actual trends and renewals of the model line. After all the parameters are brought into balance, we provide the initial variants of models, to choose and elaborate the one to get incorporated.

From the first discussion of ideas and to the final delivery of the yacht to the Client, along all the stages of projecting and construction, the Clients have at their disposal both the management of our team and the experience of engineers and designers from Azimut Benetti Group. The projecting of the megayacht has its flow and order, but the priority is always the one – to incorporate the Client’s tasks on expressing his/her individuality. Meetings and discussions of blueprints and designs take place at the shipyard in Italy or at our office in Moscow, or visiting the Client’s place if need be. Depending on the sizes of a ship, it will take from 1 to 4 months. Each yacht Azimut Grande or Benetti is inimitable and has a high degree of customization, which allows to change substantially the interiors and partially, the superstructure of the yacht. That diversity is the reason why the yachting world usually knows the Benetti ships by their names and not by their model.

When concluding the agreement all the terms of construction and the delivery date are set up. During the whole period of construction our company is controlling every stage and provides regular reports on the work flow. All in all, for a medium size yacht (about 40 metres) there are executed more than 1000 quality control audits. Our surveyor regularly visits the shipyard to execute mid-term control. It should be noted that the future Owner of the yacht can add his/her alterations even during the construction stage, yet understanding that it can cause prolongation and delay of the delivery date.

According to the signed agreement between the sides and after the notice in advance from the shipyard, our representatives start surveying and inspection procedures. Initial inspections are conducted immediately after the hull is on water, successive checkouts are made while assembling the equipment already on the surface. At every stage a snagging list is compiled and terms for completion of corrections are settled. After our surveyors have fulfilled the acceptance of delivery, the yacht is delivered for acceptance by the Client. Commonly, the acceptance of the yacht by the Client doesn’t take long, as 99% of corrections have been already completed during all the previous stages of survey and construction.