The modern call of efficient, time-saving building techniques has made it difficult to find a yacht the way you want it, from start to finish. Building a yacht through Hargrave Custom Yachts will give you a unique, one-of-a-kind yacht that you will not find anywhere else.

The Lost Art of Custom-Built Yachts – Found Only at Hargrave

Custom building of anything is almost a lost art in the world of assembly line, cookie cutter, stamped out goods. However, building a unique, one-of-a-kind yacht each time – for each owner – is still the backbone of business at Hargrave Custom Yachts. Our traditions live on: those of Jack Hargrave and his love of building yachts that possess the highest degree of user-friendliness, elegance, functionality, and quality attainable. Hargrave Custom Yachts derives its business from those traditions; it is what we do on a daily basis. We specialize in building 70-foot to 135-foot custom yachts – just the way the owner wants them built.

Jack Hargrave is undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous marine architects and engineers. His legacy is American yachting as we know it today. When he began building yachts, he viewed projects through a customer’s eyes. He sought input from the future owner, decorators, designers, efficiency experts, cooks, crews, captains, hull designers, and any other person who could provide valuable insights into how a yacht could be built better. That is still how we build them today, but we consider the owners to be the most important element.

Mimicked, but Never Copied

Our ideas, designs, and styles are often mimicked, but they cannot ever be copied. The basic reason is that Hargrave and its competitors in the production yacht business are divided in their basic philosophies:

• Production yacht builders base their business strategy on a philosophy that provides maximized profits for the work effort.
• Hargrave’s philosophy provides maximized customer satisfaction, which yields the company its success.

Owners Come First in Custom Building

We not only encourage owners to participate, we invite them into every planning step in the process.  From the first meeting where concepts, ideas, and desires are first charted to paper, to the final hoisting of the owner-selected pennant, a Hargrave is always the owner’s yacht. To achieve that goal, we employ whatever engineering and design skills are needed to make the specific wishes of the owner come true.

Listening to Owners Creates Beautiful Designs

A Hargrave owner never has to convince us of the way to do things; we make those custom design requests happen.

• When an owner wanted his stateroom to be full-beam and located on the main deck – we made it happen.
• When an owner-captain liked manning the wheel from various parts of the yacht – we made it happen.
• When another owner wanted a fully-equipped gym adjacent to his stateroom, but also kept out of sight — we designed that layout and made it happen.
• Other custom layouts include a pilothouse integrated with the entertainment-oriented sundeck, enlarged galleys for gourmet cooking, and even a yacht with two, full-beam, master staterooms for the ultimate in entertaining special guests.

That is what customizing means to us at Hargrave Custom Yachts and we can do the same with you.

Building a Hargrave Yacht is the Experience of a Lifetime

Hargrave makes it as easy and painless to participate in the build as possible. That is not always true in owner-participation projects if you have had the experience with a custom built home, or car, or something else. Hargrave makes it so enjoyable that 52% of Hargrave owners have returned to do it again – some as many as four times in ten years! The reason is simple. Another company’s philosophy may be “doing things the easy way.” Our philosophy replaces that with “doing things the owner’s way.”  Visit with us and find out just how we implement that basic, unique philosophy.

Your Way of Building a Yacht Is Our Way of Building a Yacht

The unique advantage Hargrave Custom Yachts gives you allows you to have the yacht you always dreamed of and participate in its development at every stage. Hargrave still builds yachts the “old-fashioned” way, the way Jack Hargrave built them: with expert input, owner participation, and high quality built into every component.

Call us at our toll-free number (800) 551-9590 or in Florida, (954) 463-0555. Talk to us about how we build yachts. Come and see our operation first hand. Visit the Hargrave displays at the top US boat shows.  Let us show you how easy and enjoyable building your very own yacht can be.