- Founded
- 1916
- Headquarters
- Muelle de Poniente S/N, 03130 Santa Pola (Alicante), Spain
- Shipyard location
- Santa Pola (Alicante), Spain
- Official website
- https://astondoa.com/en/
Brand Overview
Family-run Spanish shipyard founded in 1916 by the Astondoa brothers at Portugalete and building since the 1980s at Santa Pola near Alicante — twelve semi-custom motor yachts from the 11.6-metre 377 Coupe to the 60-metre 197 Steel, more than 3,000 vessels in four generations.
Overview written fromastondoa.comread 9/18/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Astilleros Astondoa dates from 1916, when the brothers Jesús and José Astondoa Martínez began building rowboats and traineras in a small carpenter's workshop at Portugalete on the Bay of Biscay; Jesús Astondoa Santamaría joined in 1944, the third generation took the yard to Spain's east coast, and in the early 1980s it moved from wood to fibreglass-reinforced polyester. Today the fourth generation of the family runs a 30,000-square-metre seafront shipyard at Muelle de Poniente in Santa Pola, ten minutes from Alicante airport, where design, 5-axis milling of 1:1 plugs, vacuum-infused lamination, joinery from raw teak trunks, metalwork and upholstery are all done in-house and every yacht passes through more than 150 hands; more than 3,000 vessels have been built. The range runs from the 377 Coupe and its outboard-optional sister through the 577 and 677 Coupe, the 66 Flybridge, the As5 and As8 sport yachts, the round-bilge Ax8, the 100 and 110 Century tri-decks, to the 151 and 197 Steel megayacht projects with steel hulls and aluminium superstructures. Every model page prints length overall, maximum beam, maximum draft at full load, lightship and full-load displacement, tanks, standard and optional engines, speeds, range, certified persons, cabins and heads, build material and the certifying society (RINA).
Who sails them
Astondoa owners are Mediterranean and international buyers of 40 to 200 feet who want a yacht built around them rather than off a production line — owners who value Spanish hand craftsmanship, teak joinery from the yard's own carpentry, RINA-certified construction, and a family shipyard that has been answering to owners for more than a century.
Signature models
The 100 and 110 Century tri-decks are the modern flagships of the GRP range, the 66 Flybridge and the As5 and As8 carry the yard's contemporary design language, the 377 Coupe brought Astondoa quality to 12 metres, and the 151 and 197 Steel projects extend the yard's megayacht building to 60 metres.
Strengths
Astondoa is known for a century of family ownership, one seafront shipyard where every trade is in-house, semi-custom interiors around each owner, vacuum-infused GRP construction, steel-and-aluminium megayacht capability, RINA certification, and the most extensive single-brand range in Spain.
Considerations
The English pages print imperial figures with decimal commas, so metric figures were taken from the Spanish pages (the 151 Steel has none and its draft and tanks are converted); draft is the maximum at full load; several standard engines are named without horsepower (MAN V12 in kW, Volvo Penta IPS 1350, IPS 800, MTU 16V4000 in kW) so hp is empty or comes only from optional engines; the 577 and 677 Coupe have Spanish-only pages; the 66 Flybridge prints speeds as '30/31' and '24/26' knots; and the 125 Century in the site menu leads only to a 2019 news article.
Analysis generated 9/17/2026
Part of
Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Santa Pola
Santa Pola (Alicante), Spain
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 12
- Length range
- 11.61–60.05 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 12
- Cabins
- 2–7
Models by this brand
12 models
Coupe4
Century2
History
The yard dates itself to 1916, when the brothers Jesús and José Astondoa Martínez began building rowing boats and traineras in a small carpenter's workshop in Portugalete. Work stopped during the Spanish Civil War, after which the brothers went separate ways and Jesús turned to fishing and recreational boats; his son Jesús Astondoa Santamaría joined in 1944 and took over the yard soon after, its wooden boats and finish earning it a national name. The third generation joined once the company had established itself on Spain's east coast, and in the early 1980s Astondoa left wood for glass-reinforced polyester. By 2006 the group employed more than 500 people and offered what it describes as the widest range built under one brand, from 40-foot open boats to composite yachts over 120 feet and steel-hulled megayachts up to 45 metres. More than 3,000 vessels have been built in the century since, the family still runs the yard, and the main site at Santa Pola near Alicante spans 30,000 square metres and concentrates on yachts above 122 feet.
History written fromastondoa.com/en/company/· Astondoaread 9/25/2026