Hargrave Custom Yachts has built American motor yachts in Fort Lauderdale since 1957, and the name still carries the authority of its founder, Jack Hargrave, whose naval architecture shaped much of the postwar cruising fleet. Today the yard works to a simple principle: every hull is drawn around its owner rather than pulled from a catalogue. Builds run from roughly 70 to 190 feet, spanning raised pilothouse cruisers, sky lounge models, long-range euro-hybrid designs and full custom superyachts engineered in house at the Hargrave Superyachts Division.
What separates Hargrave is the degree of involvement an owner is given before the first panel is cut. Layouts, machinery, materials and styling stay open to revision, and the yard collaborates with independent design studios when a client wants a specific hand on the exterior. Recent projects pair carbon-reinforced composite construction with hybrid propulsion, a response to buyers who want range and quiet running without surrendering performance.
The result is a fleet that reads as individual commissions, not variations on a theme. For buyers who treat a yacht as a long-term relationship rather than a purchase, Hargrave offers a route to a genuinely bespoke vessel backed by nearly seventy years of continuous building.
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