- Founded
- 2003
- Headquarters
- Coomera, Queensland, Australia
- Shipyard location
- Coomera (Gold Coast), Queensland, Australia
- Official website
- https://www.maritimo.com.au/
Brand Overview
Australian family-owned builder of long-range flybridge and sedan motor yachts — the M-Series (M50 to M75), S-Series (S50 to S75) and Offshore M600/S600 — built at Coomera on the Gold Coast, founded in 2003 by Bill Barry-Cotter.
Overview written frommaritimo.com.auread 9/13/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Maritimo builds long-range luxury motor yachts at a purpose-built facility at Coomera on Queensland's Gold Coast, the heartland of Australia's boatbuilding industry. Founded in 2003 by Bill Barry-Cotter AM — the site calls him Australia's most awarded boat builder, with sixty years in the trade — it remains family owned, with his son Tom Barry-Cotter now at the helm. The range is three series: the M-Series flybridge yachts (M50, M55 Black Edition, M60, M75), the S-Series sedans (S50, S55 Black Edition, S60, S75) and the Offshore M600 Black Edition and S600. Every model page prints the same specification — length overall and ISO hull length, beam, draft, dry weight, fuel, water and holding tanks, cabins and sleeping capacity, standard Volvo Penta D13 or Scania engines and the generator — and a US head office in Fort Lauderdale serves the American market.
Who sails them
Maritimo owners are experienced cruising couples and families in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the United States who want to go far on one tank — shaft-drive diesels, large fuel capacity and full-beam masters — in a boat built for offshore passages rather than marina display; the Black Editions add a darker, more contemporary specification.
Signature models
The M60 and S60 are the heart of the range, the M75 and S75 the flagships with four cabins and Scania power, the M50 and S50 the entry point, and the Offshore Series M600 and S600 the long-range variants; the brand's offshore powerboat racing programme feeds its reputation for hull engineering.
Strengths
Maritimo is known for long range and fuel efficiency at cruising speed, robust shaft-drive engineering, generous engine rooms, full-beam owner's staterooms and a wholly Australian in-house build, backed by owner programmes such as Maritimo Surety and registration.
Considerations
The site states dry weight rather than displacement, gives no speed or range figures on the model pages, prints engine options only in prose (the M75's MTU upgrades), the S50 page lists an AMSA design length rather than a length overall, and the founding year is not on the site itself.
Analysis generated 9/13/2026
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Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Coomera
Coomera (Gold Coast), Queensland, Australia
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 10
- Length range
- 15.88–23.07 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 10
- Cabins
- 2–4
Models by this brand
10 models
S-Series Sedan4
M-Series Flybridge4
History
Maritimo is designed and built by hand in Australia, and makes long-range motor yachts. Its founder, Bill Barry-Cotter, has spent more than sixty years seeing that each one does what the yard promises of it -- experience becoming knowledge, and knowledge what lets a builder develop, improve and solve. The company came up through competition and still races, and it counts its owners and the people who build the boats as the same foundation.
History written frommaritimo.com.au/oceans-apart/· Oceans apartread 9/25/2026