The shipyard employs world-renowned naval architects, who understand their clients and listen to their needs. Creative, precise and meticulous, they plan and design boats to meet the clients’ expectations.

 

• AUZEPY-BRENNEUR has carried out numerous studies on yachts and professional boats. This reputable naval architect, very experienced in designing ships, works on docking boats in collaboration with ALU MARINE.

• BERRET RACOUPEAU YACHT DESIGN has been drawing innovative, carefully planned and extremely seaworthy boats for 30 years. His skills in the design and layout of the accommodation on large luxury catamarans have been recognized the world over. With a huge portfolio of designs and an excellent reputation, his firm is today one of the leaders in French naval architecture. The Havana luxury sailing catamarans for long distance cruising are amongst his creations with ALU MARINE.

 

• DELION ARCHITECTURE has a vast experience in the study and design of professional and pleasure boats

 

• GERONIMO NAVAL DESIGN is a naval architects office with a particular expertise in the fields of pleasure yachts, fishing boats and the naval industry. They collaborate closely with ALU MARINE on projects for professionals such as fishing or diving boats and passenger ships.

 

• LAURENT ARCHITECTURE carries out studies of monohull and multihull yachts and workboats.  Patrice Laurent is a naval architect and member of the Commission Nationale de Sécurité de la Navigation de Plaisance.

 

• MARC LOMBARD NAVAL ARCHITECTURE is a renowned naval architecture office, who has developed many cruising and racing monohulls and multihulls. It works with ALU MARINE on fast cruising monohulls.

 

• NG YACHT DESIGN is a naval architects office based in Tahiti. Their skills in naval architecture, design, engineering, and their experience of sailing allow them to answer different programs: cruising monohulls and multihulls, boats for professionals.

 

• PLESSIS ASSOCIES Particularly well known in relation to pleasure yachts and workboats, this firm of naval architects has produced many designs of multihulls, yachts, large privately owned sailing yachts, classic or avant-garde motorboats, racing and charter yachts, industrial units… Striving for originality, high-performance and simplicity, their designs are always attractive and different from the usual production boats.

 

• SHIP STUDIO is a naval architecture and engineering design office. They carry out all the preliminary preparation for the projects and sets of building, architecture and design plans for ships between 30 and 130 meters: fast boats, passenger ships, specific ships for particular professions, river boats, yachts…

 

• STIRLING DESIGN INTERNATIONAL, cabinet de design et d’architecture navale spécialisé dans la conception d’unités de grande plaisance et de navires de croisière.

 

• TECHNI CARENE is a naval architecture and engineering design office founded by Philippe NINEUIL, a naval architect and member of the Institut Français des Architects Navals (I.F.A.N). For 30 years, he has been designing diverse types of boats: passenger or cargo transport, tourism, fishing, surveys, fast interventions, pushing and towing tugs, diving, cruising, floating homes, etc. He is now working in collaboration with ALU MARINE on passenger riverboats.

 

• VPLP (Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost) is a large design office and world leader in naval architecture for racing and cruising multihulls. With ALU MARINE and in collaboration with Anne-Monique Bonadei, a reputed Italian interior designer, they created Douce France, the world’s largest sailing catamaran. They also developed the Noah concept, a class of luxury power catamarans, distinctive and timeless with their elegant and fluid lines.

Light, strong, robust and durable, easy to repair and maintain, aluminum is the ultimate choice material for shipbuilding.

 

• Lightness and resistance

Aluminum construction allows hulls and superstructures to be built both strong and light. Additionally, with its exceptional properties of strength and resistance, an aluminum hull can take more of a beating than a polyester one for example. An aluminum boat is therefore safer and better suited to blue water sailing.

 

• Durability

Aluminum also offers the advantage of an incomparable longevity.  Little maintenance is required and the structure doesn’t deteriorate over the years. An aluminum boat doesn’t have a lifetime limit. Another major asset of aluminum is its remarkable resistance to corrosion.

 

• High resistance to corrosion

Aluminum is used in the nautical industry for a long time now and has always demonstrated its high resistance to corrosion and to the structural fatigue. The number of aluminum boats is very important and we don’t know boats having been scrapped because of corrosion. The state of the current knowledge does not allow to determine the life cycle of a structure in aluminium, and to simplify, the experts consider its longevity as permanent.
The possible problems of galvanic corrosion on aluminum hulls are due to electrolysis and to the contact between aluminum and stainless steel parts.
The ALU MARINE boats are carefully built to avoid any contact of the stainless parts with the aluminum. Electricity is carried out professionally in bipolar with insulation transformer and leak tester. Cables are in H07 RN-F marine quality and protected in shafts and pipes to avoid wear due to a friction.

 

• Comfort

The robustness of an aluminum hull is reassuring. It doesn’t creak at sea and doesn’t smell.

 

• Customized accommodation

Aluminum offers more freedom when planning the accommodation. Thus, it is possible to adapt each boat to the specific needs of the owners.  It is quite conceivable to modify the layout or even the superstructures.

 

• Safety

Safety at sea is a major concern for every owner.  Aluminum doesn’t burn in the atmosphere and doesn’t fuel a fire.

 

• Resale value

Aluminum boats are extremely sustainable and keep their value on the resale of the boat, because the structure does not wear out and does not deteriorate in the time.

• Environment

Aluminum is easily recycled. It generates little secondary pollution because of the minimal maintenance it requires.