Nautical Structures’ incredible depth of products gives us the ability to tailor a tender-handling system for most on-board yacht applications. We take pride in our willingness and ability to work closely with the client and shipyard to develop equipment that provides the desired form and functionality. Our management and design team have over one-hundred combined years in the marine industry, and we bring this experience to the table with every new project.

Recently working with a shipyard we helped to provide access to the yacht for the client and his wife, both wheelchair bound. A specialized passerelle with wheelchair ramps and wheel guides was developed and built to our stringent standards, providing enhanced safety and access for the handicapped yachtsman. A unique scissor-lift platform provides this client the ability to safely travel between the main deck and the lazarette deck. A total of three independent overhead beam cranes will hoist the yachtsman in his motorized wheelchair and transport him to and from the dock, from either the starboard or the port side of the yacht. This is just one example of the success that may be achieved with close collaboration between Nautical Structures and the shipyard's design team.

We offer such a wide variety of products because there is such a diverse variety of yacht type and style available to the yachtsman today. Some of our many innovative products include: Small davits that can be easily integrated into the boat, and upgraded with power rotation and wireless controls. Large hydraulic deck cranes, mounted on a periscoping standpipe system that permits the crane to stow below the bulwarks, or in the deck itself is another. Cranes that totally integrate with the vessel's bulwarks, freeing all of the available deck space for tender-storage or entertaining. Overhead traveling beam crane systems that mount in the overhead structure of the yacht permitting storage of the vessel's tenders on lower decks. Hydraulic passerelles that extend twenty-five feet or more unsupported by the dock, providing boarding to either side of the yacht with minimal deflection of the plank. It is this experience that we hope you will consider when asking Why Nautical Structures?