History of the company

In the spring of 2018, the 40-metre C133 tri-deck yacht, the largest motor yacht ever built in Poland, departed the slipway of the Conrad shipyard in Gdansk. The descent was originally timed to coincide with the birthday of the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad. So what’s this shipyard that’s suddenly set a national record? And what does that have to do with the writer? I must say that this Conrad has nothing to do with the shipyard, whose sailing boats were so popular in the Soviet Union, as well as with the famous marinist writer. The shipyard was established in 2003 as a subsidiary of Marine Project, one of the first private Polish shipyards, which was founded in 1989. Conrad’s main task was to produce motor and sailing yachts in steel and aluminium.

Production .

Currently, the company has more than 20 yachts of various types built or refitted, ranging in length from 12 to 66 meters. The shipyard’s production processes can involve up to half a thousand specialists of different profiles, including 25 design engineers. They have at their disposal an impressive area of 50,000 sq. m., including 6,600 sq. m. of covered workshops and halls.

Model range

The shipyard produces 4 completely different families of yachts and boats. This is a recognizable range of classic «towing» boats 15-25 meters long. The shipyard’s 27- and 40-metre motor superyachts have already found their owners, and 4 semi-custom models from 43.5 to 70(!) metres in length are waiting for their projects. The third and very important product of Conrad is luxury cruising yachts of 20, 24 and 28 meters and a luxury designer moto-sailer of 35 meters in length. The aluminium special purpose boat segment has also not been overlooked by the yard. Also worth mentioning is a 67m long steel sailboat created for the Vietnamese Navy with a modern filling inside.

Features

The Conrad range is difficult to call extensive, but the company manages to produce both motor yachts and boats as well as sailing boats with a high reputation in the market.

«It was a difficult way to meet the challenges – if you look at our range of really different projects – but I think we have laid the groundwork and the best is ahead of us,” says the»head of the company Mikolaj Krol.