- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- La Grande-Motte, France
- Shipyard location
- Same as headquarters
- Official website
- https://gunboat.com/
Brand Overview
American-born builder of high-performance cruising catamarans, founded in 2002 and now built in La Grande-Motte, France, under Grand Large Yachting ownership since 2016.
Overview written fromgunboat.com/our-shipyard/read 9/13/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
AI-generatedAn independent reading of this builder written by AI. Unlike the specifications and descriptions elsewhere on this page, it is interpretation rather than a sourced fact — treat it as a starting point, not a citation.
What this builder is
Gunboat is a high-end performance cruising catamaran builder that applies Grand Prix race-boat technology to fast, luxury multihulls, blending American design origins with French boatbuilding expertise under Grand Large Yachting ownership. It occupies a niche at the top of the performance-cruising catamaran market, distinct from volume production catamaran brands.
Who sails them
Gunboat owners are typically experienced sailors and offshore cruising enthusiasts seeking high-performance, semi-custom catamarans for long-range cruising and occasional racing, often with the means to commission a bespoke, high-end build.
Signature models
The current range is the Gunboat 68, 72 and 80 series, alongside the Fusion 80 concept; the 72 comes in Explorer and Flybridge variants.
Strengths
Gunboat is widely credited with pioneering lightweight, high-performance cruising catamarans built to exacting weight and quality standards, backed by VPLP naval architecture and strong in-house engineering and project management.
Considerations
As a semi-custom, high-tech performance catamaran builder, Gunboat commands a premium price and longer build times than production yards, and its range is narrow (large luxury performance cats), so buyers must weigh cost and lead time against the racier, less common design.
Analysis generated 9/13/2026
Part of
Grand Large Yachting↗ · since 2016
Also in the catalogue
Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
La Grande-Motte
La Grande-Motte, France
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 3
- Length range
- 20.75–23.95 m
- Hull forms
- Sailing Catamaran 3
- Cabins
- 4
Models by this brand
3 models
History
Gunboat has applied Grand Prix race boat technology to the world cruising catamaran since 2002, an American brand that set out to give a cruising multihull the speed, comfort and style of a racing one. Since 2016 it has been owned by Grand Large Yachting, and its factory headquarters is at La Grande-Motte in France, where the boats are built with the discipline of a race programme -- on weight, to the build time, to CE ISO Category A Ocean standards. Naval architecture comes from VPLP, and the yard's own design and engineering office runs the whole design loop; what it builds are light, high-tech, semi-custom performance cruising multihulls.
History written fromgunboat.com/our-shipyard/· Our shipyardread 9/25/2026