- Founded
- 1966
- Headquarters
- Södra Varvsgatan 27, 593 50 Västervik, Sweden
- Shipyard location
- Västervik, Sweden (main production and headquarters)
- Official website
- https://www.windyboats.com/
Brand Overview
Scandinavian builder of deep-V sports boats and superyacht tenders founded by Hugo Vold in 1966 — the SR yacht-tender line from the SR26 to the 24-metre SR77 and the 29 Huracán, 32 Grand Zonda, 34 Alizé and 40 Camira representation models — headquartered and built at Västervik on Sweden's Baltic coast, with more than 12,000 boats since.
Overview written fromwindyboats.comread 9/17/2026
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Windy began in 1966 when Hugo Vold, a Norwegian with a lifelong respect for the Skagerrak, hired the best Scandinavian designers and craftsmen to build boats to a standard that made the name a mark of quality; sixty years on, Windy Scandinavia AB builds to that standard from its headquarters and shipyard at Södra Varvsgatan in Västervik, right on the Baltic where every boat is tested, with 177 people, 92 models built and more than 12,000 boats delivered. The range is two lines: the SR yacht tenders and chase boats — SR26, SR40, SR44, SR52 and SR52 Sport, the new SR53, SR60 and the 24-metre SR77 flagship, offered with inboard sterndrives, Volvo Penta IPS pods, water jets or triple outboards and drawn with Eidsgaard Design, Espen Øino and others — and the representation models for owners, the 29 Huracán, 32 Grand Zonda, 34 Alizé and 40 Camira, deep-V sports cruisers with Volvo Penta DPI power. Every model page prints length, beam, draft, lightship, top and cruising speed, fuel, fresh and black water, range, PAX, CE category and engine options, with the caveat that speeds depend on options, load and sea state and range on engine and tank.
Who sails them
Windy owners are superyacht captains and owners who need a tender or chase boat built to the mother ship's standard — fast, dry, seakindly, with the range for a day away from the yacht — and Scandinavian and Mediterranean sports-boat owners who want a hand-finished deep-V weekender from 29 to 40 feet that runs at 40 knots and looks like a yacht.
Signature models
The SR52 Blackbird, unveiled at Cannes, set the benchmark for luxury yacht tenders and is still the heart of the SR line; the 40 Camira is the classic Windy sports cruiser reborn, and the SR77 — the largest yacht in Windy's history — takes the chase-boat idea to 24 metres.
Strengths
Windy is known for legendary deep-V hulls that stay dry and stable at speed, vacuum-infused hand-finished construction, designs by Espen Øino, Eidsgaard and Hans Jörgen Johnsen, a yacht-tender range with inboard, IPS, jet and outboard options, published performance tests, and sixty years at one standard.
Considerations
Engine ratings are given only as model names (D6-440, IPS 650, V12-600) with no horsepower figure, weights are lightship subject to options and load, speeds and ranges carry the builder's caveats, the SR40 and SR44 print separate inboard and outboard figures, the SR53 page has no specifications yet, the SR52 Sport repeats the SR52's block, and some page photographs are magazine copyright and were not taken.
Analysis generated 9/17/2026
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Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Västervik
Västervik, Sweden
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 13
- Length range
- 7.96–23.98 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 13
- Cabins
- 0–3
Models by this brand
13 models
Yacht tender chase boats7
History
Hugo Vold's father was a fisherman whose boats were all called Vindy and all of which brought him home through the storms of the Skagerrak. Vold founded Windy at Skarpnes on the Norwegian coast in 1966, named it after them, hired the best designers he could and sought out Scandinavia's finest craftsmen. The first generation of cabin and day cruisers, 22 to 30 feet, made the name across Scandinavia on seaworthiness and finish. The naval architect Hans Jörgen Johnsen then joined and drew the planing hulls the marque became known for, each named after one of the world's winds: Mistral, Ghibli, Bora, Scirocco. Windy later turned its experience to bespoke tenders and chase boats of superyacht quality; the Windy Dubois SR52 Blackbird made its mark at the Cannes Yachting Festival and was rated the world's best chase boat by Superyacht Magazine in 2015. A collaboration with Espen Øino brought a range of custom superyacht tenders from 7 to 24 metres and shaped the SR40, Huracán and Alizé, while Malcolm McKeon drew the award-winning SR60 and the coming SR77. Windy is built today at Västervik on Sweden's Baltic coast by more than 170 people, from 26 to 77 feet, with hulls in resin transfer moulding; the yard says seven in ten of all the boats it has ever built are still afloat.
History written fromwindyboats.com/about/· Our storyread 9/25/2026