Vanquish

Vanquish Yachts is a Dutch builder founded in 2012 by Tom Steentjes, a professional welder and engineer who could not find a lightweight aluminium day boat with superyacht-grade fit and finish - so he built one himself. The shipyard is at Marknesse, in the Netherlands, and every hull leaves that facility as a made-to-order, semi-custom build; there are no spec yachts in the production queue.

The range runs from the VQ40 day cruiser up to the VQ115 flagship, with the Aluminum Series covering the core performance and chase segment and a composite Sports Line handling the smaller, higher-speed tender and watercraft models. In the superyacht support space, Vanquish is recognised for applying full marine-grade aluminium construction to chase-boat and custom-tender briefs that would elsewhere require a bespoke yard commission. The VQ80 SportFish, designed as the chase boat for Heesen's 60m Project SkyFall, is the most public expression of that capability: Caterpillar C32B power, and a recorded speed of over 50 knots in Dutch sea trials. The yard has delivered over 200 hulls to date.

What makes Vanquish recognisable on a dock is the vertical stem, the chopped angular deck geometry, and a hull that runs 25 to 30 percent lighter than a comparable fibreglass build. For your programme, the practical upshot is a chase or support platform with genuine high-speed range and an aluminium structure that holds its value and resists the maintenance cycle that composite hulls accumulate in hard seasonal use.