Custom Yacht Construction

Yachts Built Around You

Every hull we lay down starts with a conversation, not a catalogue. Whether you want a vessel engineered from a blank sheet or a proven platform shaped to your taste, IMPERIS builds around how you actually intend to use the water.

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Custom & Semi-Custom

Two Ways To Build

Not every owner starts from the same place. Some arrive with a sketch and a vision; others want a hull whose behaviour is already proven and simply want it made theirs. We build both ways, with the same engineering discipline behind each.

Full Custom Yachts

A vessel designed and built entirely to your specification — hull form, general arrangement, layout, systems, and finish all defined around you. Our naval architects start from first principles: how many guests, which waters, how far between ports, what the vessel has to do at anchor. Nothing is inherited from a previous build unless you want it to be. This route takes longer and asks more of the owner, and it produces a yacht that exists nowhere else.

  • Clean-sheet naval architecture
  • Owner-defined layout and systems
  • Bespoke interior design and finish

Semi-Custom Yachts

A proven engineering platform with wide room for personalization. The hull, structural package, and propulsion layout are already validated on the water, which shortens the build and removes a large portion of technical risk — while interiors, deck arrangement, finishes, and equipment remain open to you. For most owners, this is the fastest path to a genuinely personal yacht.

  • Validated hull and propulsion
  • Faster delivery timeline
  • Extensive personalization options
Yacht Categories

What We Build

Six categories, one standard of construction. Each one is engineered for a different kind of owner and a different kind of sea.

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Luxury Motor Yachts

The classic expression of a private yacht — generous living space, wide beam, and the kind of finish that makes the difference between a boat and a home on the water. Built for owners who cruise coastlines, host aboard, and expect the vessel to look as considered at the dock as it does underway.

Every system is sized for comfort rather than compromise: stabilisation at anchor, quiet running at cruise, and guest accommodation that works as well for a long weekend as for a full season.

24–45 mLength Range
8–12Guest Capacity
1,200 nmTypical Range
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Explorer Yachts

Built for owners who measure a yacht by where it can take them rather than by how it looks at the marina. Reinforced hulls, extended fuel and water capacity, and redundancy in the systems that matter when the nearest port is two days away.

We design these around genuine autonomy: greater range, heavier tankage, robust deck equipment, and storage for tenders and toys that turn a remote anchorage into a base rather than a stop.

30–60 mLength Range
10–16Guest Capacity
4,000+ nmExtended Range
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Liveaboard Yachts

A yacht designed to be lived on, not just cruised on. The design priorities shift: storage, galley capacity, fresh-water production, laundry, and crew quarters stop being afterthoughts and become the structure of the layout.

We build these for owners and long-stay charter operators who need the vessel to sustain life comfortably for weeks at a time, with the quiet systems and generous stowage that make that possible.

28–50 mLength Range
12–20Berths
30+ daysAutonomy
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Diving & Safari Yachts

Purpose-built for Red Sea diving operations and safari charter — compressor rooms, tank storage and filling stations, dive platforms, and deck flow designed around groups moving in and out of the water all day.

Having a shipyard on the Gulf of Suez means we build these for the conditions they'll actually work in, with the durability that daily commercial diving operations demand rather than occasional recreational use.

24–40 mLength Range
16–26Divers Aboard
2Dive Platforms
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Tourism Yachts

Commercial passenger vessels for tour operators, resorts, and day-charter fleets — where the economics depend on capacity, turnaround, and uptime. Layouts are built around passenger flow, shaded seating, service points, and safe boarding at busy jetties.

These are built to a commercial standard from the first plate: easy to clean, easy to maintain, and engineered for a schedule that runs every day of the season.

20–45 mLength Range
60–200Passenger Capacity
Class-certifiedCommercial Standard
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Private Recreational Craft

Smaller craft where the pleasure is in the handling — tenders, day boats, sport cruisers, and fast recreational vessels. Lighter builds, sharper response, and finish quality that matches the larger yachts they often accompany.

Frequently ordered alongside a main vessel as a matched tender, and built in the same yard to the same standard.

8–18 mLength Range
6–12Guest Capacity
35+ knTop Speed
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How We Build

From First Conversation To Sea Trial

1

Brief & Concept

We start with how you intend to use the vessel, not with a hull number.

2

Design & Naval Architecture

In-house architects turn the brief into structural calculation and a general arrangement.

3

Construction

Hull, structure, systems and fit-out, built and inspected in our own shipyard.

4

Quality Control

Structural, systems and finish inspection against classification standards before launch.

5

Sea Trial & Handover

Performance validated on the water, then handed over with full documentation.

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After Delivery

The Relationship Doesn't End At Handover

A yacht is not a finished object on delivery day — it's a vessel that will spend years in salt water, carrying systems that need attention and finishes that need care. Our refit and after-sales division exists so that owners aren't left searching for competent support once the yard doors close behind them. We service and maintain the vessels we build, carry out scheduled and emergency work, and undertake full refits when an owner's needs change or a yacht simply earns a second life. Because the same engineers who built your hull are the ones maintaining it, nothing has to be reverse-engineered from a drawing someone else made. That continuity is what keeps an IMPERIS vessel safe, comfortable, and worth what you put into it, years after the first sea trial.

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Scheduled Maintenance

Full Refit & Conversion

Technical Support

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Start Your Yacht Project

Tell us how you intend to use the water, and we'll tell you what it takes to build for it.

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