your vision.
our obsession.
Building a superyacht is a major investment. Every decision shapes the yacht you’ll own for years. Our role is simple: to represent your interests from the first sketch to your first season.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
Every stage.
One trusted partner.
Where precision engineering, elegant design, and exceptional craftsmanship define every yacht.
Vision
Every exceptional yacht begins with a vision. We help define the brief, challenge assumptions where needed and establish the foundations for everything that follows.
Build
From selecting the right shipyard to overseeing construction, we remain present throughout the build—providing independent owner representation, practical guidance and clear reporting at every stage.
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Beyond delivery
Delivery is only the beginning. We prepare your yacht for operational life, ensuring a seamless transition from shipyard to ownership, with continued support wherever your journey leads next.
Our Work
Recent deliveries
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Built Around Ownership
The best decisions are made long before launch.
They influence reliability, crew operations, maintenance, resale and ultimately the experience of ownership.
By thinking beyond delivery, we help ensure your yacht performs as beautifully in years to come as it does on launch day.
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Why 70/ONE
We believe exceptional yachts are defined by attention.
Attention to the details others overlook. Attention to the decisions that shape ownership. Attention to the people who place their trust in us.
That's why we remain deliberately boutique, giving every owner direct access to experienced people who remain personally accountable from beginning to end.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Meet our team
with 75+ years of combined experience in yacht build, refit, and management.
Paul Were
Founder & Director
Richard Hodgson
Founder & Director
Benedict Torrance
Vessel & Crew Compliance
FAQs
Every project is different. The design phase alone can take anywhere from six months to more than two years, with construction typically taking a further two to five years depending on the yacht's size, complexity, level of customization and shipyard programme.
The important part is not simply reaching delivery. Decisions made during design and construction will influence how the yacht operates for years afterwards. 7O/ONE represents the owner's interests throughout that process, from the earliest conversations through construction, sea trials and delivery.
A new build involves a shipyard, designers, naval architects, technical specialists, lawyers, suppliers and eventually captain and crew. Each has their own responsibility. The owner's representative has one: the owner.
7O/ONE provides an experienced point of contact throughout the project, helping coordinate the people involved, challenge decisions where necessary and keep the owner's requirements at the centre of the build.
Ideally, before the shipyard and major specifications are finalised.
Early involvement gives us the opportunity to support the decisions that shape the project rather than simply oversee decisions already made. However, we can also join an existing project where additional owner representation or technical oversight is required.
There isn't one shipyard or designer that is right for every project. The right team depends on the yacht you want to create, the technical requirements, intended use, budget, programme and the way you want to work.
Our role is to help assess those considerations objectively and represent your interests through the selection process.
As involved as you want to be.
Our job is to understand what matters to you, maintain oversight of the detail and give you clear information when a decision genuinely requires your attention.
Behind that sits the work owners should rarely need to see: checking, challenging, anticipating and resolving. The detail should create calm for an owner, not more complexity.
At delivery, the yacht completes her final sea trials, commissioning, flag and class certification and the handover of documentation, before moving into operation with her captain and crew. Delivery is the end of construction, not the end of the relationship.
Sea trials, commissioning, documentation, operational readiness and the transition to captain and crew all need careful coordination. 7O/ONE can remain alongside the yacht beyond delivery through ongoing yacht management, compliance and future refit support.
Yes. 7O/ONE manages refits from scope and specification through tender, yard and contractor selection, contract, on-site supervision and redelivery, including major paint and technical refits.
A refit follows the same principle as a new build: the owner's interests come first, and the detail is controlled so that cost, quality and schedule are not left to the yard.
For a major refit, ideally 12 to 18 months before the yard period. Yard slots for larger yachts book early, and a clearly defined scope is the best protection against cost and time overruns.