New Construction

Would you like your next boat to be built with the same technology that created winning boats for Olympic-class and America's Cup champions? Mark Lindsay, a pioneer in high-strength, lightweight composite construction, moved to the technological hub and historic boatbuilding port of Boston Harbor in 1996 and with Scott Smith founded Boston BoatWorks. Together, with a team of 45 highly skilled boatbuilders and technicians, they continue East Boston's tradition of building boats with 'best methods and materials' established during the mid-1800s by Donald McKay, builder of the record setting clipper ship Flying Cloud and many other famous sailing ships. Boston BoatWorks' proprietary composite construction techniques and depth of skill in cabinetry, systems and yacht finish produce nimble, responsive and fuel efficient yachts that are exceptionally strong and durable-meeting CE offshore requirements.

If you haven't found the boat of your dreams on the market, call us to discuss your project. Our experience building on-time/on-budget custom and production cruising powerboats, all-out racing sailboats and blue-water performance cruising sailboats gives us the background to help you turn your dream of a perfect yacht into a beautiful, high-performance, work of art with heirloom durability.

Here's a selection of our new construction projects from the last 10 years...

MJM 34Z - Called "one of the most imaginative and well-thought-out boats seen in some time" by Motorboating magazine, the 34Z (drawn by Doug Zurn at Zurn Yacht Design) is Bob Johnstone's venture into powerboats after his extremely successful J-boat line of sailboats. Using a high-tech, pre-preg, vacuum-bagged oven-postcure, epoxy/Kevlar/E-glass/Corecell construction method combined with high-quality joinery and thoughtful systems implementation, BBW has manufactured 53 34Z's as of August 2007. More info >>
MJM 29Z - A slightly smaller version of the 34Z (but certainly not daunted by her bigger brother!), the 29Z has multiple cockpit options to accomodate twin outboards or sterndrive. At 6500 lbs, the 29Z takes the fuel-efficiency of the 34Z even further by giving the owner 9 GPH at 25 knots. All this with 6 ft headroom in the cabin! More info >>
Visions of Johanna - Designer Chuck Paine brought us the opportunity to build the hull and deck for a custom Kevlar/epoxy sailing cruising yachts with interior and fit out to be completed by Morris Yachts in Maine. This lovely pilothouse design based on an IMS racing hull shape, was the most recent of several of Paine yachts that we built this way up from 47 to 62 feet in length. More info >>
Lustrous - This Boston BoatWorks 46, another Chuck Paine pilothouse performance cruiser, was built for a customer from Seattle. We constructed "Lustrous" for self-sufficient world cruising or exploration of the Pacific Northwest, with a finely detailed varnished cherry interior, a full complement of systems, carbon spars and gleaming custom finish. More info >>