This is a list of boat builders, for which there is a Wikipedia article.

Motorboats (<50 feet)

* American Skier * Andrée & Rosenqvist *

Bayliner Bayliner is the world's largest manufacturer of recreational boats. Established in 1957 by Orin Edson, Bayliner currently has over 400 dealers in over 60 countries around the world. The company operates as part of the Brunswick Boat Group, a div ...

Beneteau Beneteau or Bénéteau () is a French sail and motor boat manufacturer, with production facilities in France and in the United States. The company is a large and recognized boat builder, commanding a substantial worldwide market, with its holdi ...

Boston Whaler Boston Whaler is an American boat manufacturer. It is a subsidiary of the Brunswick Boat Group, a division of the Brunswick Corporation. Boston Whalers were originally produced in Massachusetts, hence the name, but today are manufactured in Edge ...

Brunswick Boat Group The Brunswick Boat Group, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, is the largest maker of pleasure boats in the world. The company's net sales were US$1.7 billion in 2008, and US$1.0 billion in 2012. The Boat Group makes Sea Ray, Bayl ...

* Carter Marine * Carver Yachts * Centurion Boats *

Chaparral Boats Chaparral Boats (originally Fiberglass Fabricators) was founded in 1965 by William "Buck" Pegg and Reggie Rose in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The company's bellwether boat at the time was the 15-ft Tri-Hull with a sticker price of $675. Although th ...

* Chris-Craft Boats *

Cimmarron Boats Cabela's Inc. is an American retailer that specializes in hunting, fishing, boating, camping, shooting and other outdoor recreation merchandise. The chain is based in Sidney, Nebraska. Cabela's was founded by Richard N. Cabela in 1961. Cab ...

Clyde Boats Clyde Boats was a small, privately owned, custom boat company located in Detroit, Michigan. For nearly fifty years it produced custom mahogany motorboats for clients in the Great Lakes area. The early years Clyde Boats was founded in 1928 in t ...

* Cobalt Boats * Correct Craft * Cruisers Yachts * Evinrude * Front Street Shipyard *

Glastron Glastron is a boat manufacturing company and was one of the first manufacturers of fiberglass boats. Glastron is owned by Rec Boat Holdings, a subsidiary of Groupe Beneteau. Bob Hammond, Bill Gaston, Bob Shoop, and Guy Woodard founded the company ...

Gulf Craft Gulf Craft is a manufacturer of luxury yachts and fiberglass boats based in Umm Al Quwain in the United Arab Emirates. Gulf Craft operates from two shipyards in the UAE and one in the Maldives. History Gulf Craft was founded in 1982 in the Unit ...

* HanseYachts * Jade Yachts * Jeanneau * Kadey-Krogen Yachts * Lowe Boats *

Malibu Boats Malibu Boats is an American manufacturer of recreational boats, founded in Merced, California in 1982, and currently headquartered in Loudon, Tennessee with additional production facilities in New South Wales, Australia. Malibu is "the world's lar ...

MasterCraft The MasterCraft Boat Company is an American manufacturer of luxury high-performance boats. The company was founded in 1968 in Maryville, Tennessee, and is currently headquartered in Vonore, Tennessee. MasterCraft boats are used in waterskiing, ...

Maxum Maxum was a subsidiary of the Brunswick Boat Group, a division of the Brunswick Corporation, which manufactured recreational boats. One manufacturing plant was in Pipestone, Minnesota. This facility was established in the 1970s with 300 plus e ...

* Nautique *

Ocean Alexander Ocean Alexander is a Taiwanese yacht manufacturer with shipyards in Taiwan and the United States. In 2021 it was the 4th largest yacht builder in the world by feet of yacht produced. History Ocean Alexander was founded by Alex Chueh in 1977 ...

* Pearson Yachts * Porta-bote *

Sea Ray Sea Ray Boats is an American manufacturer that produces recreational motorboats. It currently operates as part of the Brunswick Boat Group, a division of Brunswick Corporation. History It was founded in 1959 by Zach Ray as an independent compa ...

* Ski Nautique * StanCraft Boat Company * Sunseeker * Ta shing (yacht) *

Tayana Yachts Tayana Yachts is a Taiwanese brand of fiberglass sailboats built by Kaohsiung-based Ta Yang company. Ta Yang means "big ocean" in Mandarin, and Tayana means "belongs to big ocean." The yard was founded in 1973 and has built over 1,400 bluewa ...

* Tiara Yachts * Tollycraft *

Trojan Yachts Trojan Yachts is (1949–1992) a US manufacturer of motorboats, with offices and production facilities in Lancaster Pennsylvania, Elkton Maryland and Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario Canada. History In 1949 James R. "Jim" McQueen and Harper Hull purc ...

Uniflite Uniflite (United Boat Builders) was founded in Bellingham, Washington, by Art Nordtvedt in October 1957. Although the company is best remembered as a maker of recreational powerboats, its initial products were small fiberglass runabouts. The ...

Wacanda Marine From its inception in the late 1940s through about 1984, Wacanda Marine, Inc. was owned and operated by Forrest Collins, Colville, Washington. From 1984 to 1988, the company was owned by the Yakima Indian Nation, Wapato, Washington, although ...

Herbert Woods Herbert Woods (3 February 1891 – 18 April 1954) was an English boat builder and mooring developer from Potter Heigham, Norfolk. Early life Woods was born to a family of boat builders in Brundall in 1891. He started his career as an apprentice at ...

Horizon Yachts Horizon Yacht (often referred to as Horizon Yachts) is a Taiwanese yacht manufacturer headquartered in the city of Kaohsiung. In 2018 Horizon was the tenth largest yacht builder in the world by total feet of yacht delivered. History Horizon ...

Yamaha Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of motorcycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, and other motorized products. The company was established in 1955 upon separation from Yamaha Corporation (however, Yamaha Corporation ...

* Princess Yachts *

Benetti Benetti is an Italian shipbuilding and boat building company based in Viareggio, Livorno, and Fano, owned by Azimut. Benetti designs and constructs motoryachts, and is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts, having won the ''S ...

Blohm + Voss Blohm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Hans Blohm C.M. (born 1927), photographer and author * Hermann Blohm (1848–1930), German businessman and co-founder of German company Blohm+Voss * Linn Blohm (born 1992), Swedish hand ...

Burger Boat Company The Burger Boat Company, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US, is a builder of custom-designed, hand-built pleasure yachts. The company also produces commercial vessels. Henry B. Burger founded the H. Burger Shipyard in 1863 in Manitowoc, WI. It produced ...

Cantieri di Pisa Cantieri di Pisa (Pisa Shipyards) is an Italian company that produces yachts. Its history began in 1945 Pisa. The company became famous during the 1960s and 1970s when it began developing a particular line of yachts with names inspired by celes ...

Codecasa Codecasa is an Italian luxury super yacht building firm, founded in Viareggio by Giovanni Battista Codecasa in 1825. History The shipyard Codecasa was created by Giovanni Battista Codecasa in 1825. Today, under the direction of the sixth genera ...

Ferretti Group Ferretti S.p.A. (trading as Ferretti Group) is an Italian multinational shipbuilding company headquartered in Forlì which specialises in the design, construction and sale of luxury motor yachts. Its products are sold under the brands Ferretti ...

* Front Street Shipyard *

ICON Yachts ICON Yachts is a Dutch shipbuilding company headquartered in Harlingen, Netherlands. ICON Yachts is a highly specialized shipyard for yacht conversion and refit projects, which has established a leading position in the sector of Explorer yachts a ...

Lazzara Lazzara is a surname originating from the Aramaic given name Lazar, which is a form of the Hebrew name Elazar. This name is a conjunction of "El", meaning God and of "Azar", which means help. This translates roughly as "may God help him" or "Go ...

Lürssen Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipyard with headquarters in Bremen-Vegesack and shipbuilding facilities in Lemwerder, Berne and Bremen-Fähr-Lobbendorf. Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels. Tradi ...

* Mondomarine *

Nobiskrug Nobiskrug is a shipyard located on the Eider River in Rendsburg, Germany, specialized in building innovative, custom-made luxury superyachts. In 2020 it celebrated its 115 years of operation. History Nobiskrug was founded in 1905 by Otto ...

oceAnco Oceanco is a privately owned custom yacht builder, based in the Netherlands, that builds full displacement yachts in the range since 1987. It is owned by Mohammed Al Barwani, an Omani billionaire. History Oceanco came into existence in 1987, wh ...

Royal Yacht A royal yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family. If the monarch is an emperor the proper term is imperial yacht. Most of them are financed by the government of the country of which the monarch is head. The royal yacht is most often ...

* Sunseeker * Su Marine Yachts *

Wally Yachts Wally may refer to: Music * Wally (band), British prog rock band ** ''Wally'' (album), a 1974 album by Wally * '' La Wally'', an opera by Alfredo Catalani Other uses * Wally (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * WALLY, a pro ...

* A.F. Theriault & Sons Shipyard

Sailboats

* Amel Yachts *

Bavaria Yachtbau Bavaria Yachtbau was founded in 1978 by Winfried Herrman, a window manufacturer, and Josef Meltl, a yacht charter broker. By 2006, the company had grown to produce approximately 3,500 sailing and motor yachts and employing 600 people. Bavaria Ya ...

Dufour Yachts Dufour Yachts is a French sailboat manufacturer which was founded in 1964 by naval architect and engineer Michel Dufour. It was purchased by Fountaine Pajot in 2018, and Dufour remains a separate brand. Current models From the list of mo ...

* Jeanneau *

J/Boats J/Boats is an American boat builder based in Newport, Rhode Island and founded by Rod Johnstone in 1977. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.'J/Boats: Sailing to Success' by Anthony Dalton, Voyageur ...

* Pearson Yachts * Pogo Structures * Sunseeker *

Nautor's Swan Oy Nautor AB is a Finnish producer of luxury sailing yachts, based in Jakobstad. It is known for its ''Nautor's Swan'' range of yachts models. The company was founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä. The designers Nautor has worked with four ...

Catamarans

* Farrier Marine * Front Street Shipyard

Trimarans

* Corsair Marine * Farrier Marine

Luxury yachts

KaiserWerft KaiserWerft is a German boat building company specializing in yachts. The Kaiser shipyard was considered one of the most exclusive in its branch. At the boat industry exhibition in 2006, the Kaiserwerft exhibited the Catwalk, the largest yacht e ...

* Feadship * Perini Navi

Watersports, dinghies, launches & tenders

* Bombardier *

Bossoms Boatyard Bossoms Boatyard is located opposite Port Meadow, Oxford, England, on the bank of the River Thames. History The yard was managed by the Bossom family from about 1830 until 1945, when the last in a line of several generations retired from the fa ...

* Corsair Marine * Honda Marine Group *

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (or simply Kawasaki) is a Japanese public multinational corporation manufacturer of motorcycles, engines, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense equipment, rolling stock and ships, headquartered in Chūō, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It ...

Zodiac Group Zodiac Aerospace was a French aerospace group founded in 1896 that supplied systems and equipment for aircraft. It had around 100 sites across the globe and employed nearly 35,000 people. In October 2018, it was acquired by French aerospace an ...

* Z1 Boats

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