CASE STUDIES

• Konfidence Ltd
• Mitchell Sails
• Pendennis Shipyard Ltd
• Seacore Ltd
• The Select Yacht Group

REPORTS

• Skills Needs of the Marine & Maritime Sector in the South West of England
• The New Entrepeneurs

Marine

"It's important for us that Cornwalls' marine sector as a whole continues to thrive and develop."
Karen Colam, Sales Director

The newly named Select Yacht Group has a combined turnover of around £4.5 million and offers over twenty different models. These are bought by everyone from millionaires with a taste for luxury cruising in the Caribbean to ordinary families whose idea of heaven is spend a summer's day pottering around Cornwall's idyllic creeks and coves in a sturdy little gaff-rigger.

Cornish Crabbers started building boats in the picturesque village of Rock some thirty years ago, and their unique mix of traditional craftsmanship and modern materials rapidly won an enthusiastic following. The company is still based in Rock, but these days the core of its boat-building operation is a state-of-the-art facility built at a cost of around £0.5m, with help from the South West Investment Group and the DTI Enterprise Grant Scheme.

But the recent expansion will not change the company's approach to every boat it makes. Managing Director Frank Colam sums it up  "It must be functional, it must be beautiful, and it must be the best of its kind."