Years of expertise in support of your offshore adventures
Allures Yachting has built an international reputation for designing and building world-cruising sailboats. Our yachts are developed by an experienced team, with proven innovations continuously refined through owner feedback, and built using skilled craftsmanship by highly qualified professionals within a precisely coordinated organization.
The Design
blue water cruising
Sailboats
A Team of Experts Behind every New Model
Based on our discussions with our owners and our analysis of the market and its trends, we draw up precise specifications for each new model. This collaborative process continues with a naval architect, who brings his vision and expertise to bear on designing the hull, calculating the structure, and developing the sail plan and general layout. A designer then refines the layout plans and imagines the interior ambience. Finally, our design office, bringing together architects, engineers, and technicians, integrates the various systems and finalizes the deck layout, ensuring a harmonious and successful design.
Innovation and Reliability
for Blue Water Cruising
Materials, manufacturing techniques, equipment: we remain at the forefront of developments, incorporating only those we have rigorously tested and validated. Our priority is to offer our owners the most effective and proven solutions. A blue water cruising sailboat, especially one designed for high latitudes, must be uncompromising, so that you can sail with complete peace of mind, whatever the conditions.
Continuous Evolution
Guided by the Experience
of Our Owners
In Every Corner of the Globe
Our owners sail to the four corners of the globe, exploring the most varied and demanding destinations, from tropical anchorages to ocean crossings and high latitudes. Their sailing experience is invaluable, and we're always ready to listen. Their feedback, suggestions and observations - whether on ergonomics, accessibility or the integration of new equipment - feed directly into our thinking and our continuous improvement process. As a result, we are constantly upgrading our boats, optimizing them over the course of different vintages.
Know-how Forged by Experience
Masterful construction
and first-rate quality
Mastered
Craftsmanship
To create your Allures, more than a dozen trades are involved: boilermakers, painters, carpenters, upholsterers, fitters... These are manual trades, requiring great care and precision. Our boats are thus produced in small series, by passionate craftsmen, according to the equipment wishes of their future owners. Allures yachting masters each and every one of its trades, offering top-quality, ultra-reliable yachts.
In an Optimized
Organization
This mastery of craftsmanship is nevertheless part of our organization. The intervention of each trade is carried out step by step, our material and equipment flows are optimized, and our facilities are designed to facilitate our operations and guarantee the safety and quality of working life of our employees. Our production is controlled by a management software package, which gives us full control over our schedules. What's more, as part of the Grand Large Yachting group, Allures Yachting benefits from a pooling of knowledge and best practices.
A Robust
Quality Approach
Reliability is essential for exploration yachts, destined to face harsh conditions and venture into remote places. In addition to the expertise and know-how of our staff, a Quality team carries out checks at every stage of construction, from the cutting of the first aluminum sheet to final sea trials, guaranteeing the high level of performance and reliability of our boats.
An Environmental
Approach
We are also committed to optimizing the environmental performance of our boats, at every stage of their life: design, production, use and end-of-life. To manufacture our hulls, we already use 80% recycled aluminum. We have also set up a waste sorting system, an annual site clean-up campaign and actions to reduce our production of non-recyclable waste. We also involve our suppliers. Finally, as the use of the boat accounts for most of the overall footprint of owning a sailboat, we are also working to raise our customers' awareness of good practices on board.
Manufacturing Details
manufacturing
in 8 steps
01
Boilermaking, Hull Creation
The story of your sailboat begins in one of our 3 boiler-making facilities. On a tool called a table, we create the structure of your sailboat: vertical ribs and horizontal stringers gradually create a kind of skeleton, onto which the aluminum sheets, previously bent, are welded and shaped to give life to the hull.
Our hulls are shaped, without chine, for improved seaworthiness, enhanced performance and greater elegance. It all starts with the exceptional work of our boilermakers, whose know-how is passed on in the traditional way, with a system of apprenticeship that enhances the value of the craft and ensures that the gestures are accurate, precise and verified.
Our hulls are shaped, without chine, for improved seaworthiness, enhanced performance and greater elegance. It all starts with the exceptional work of our boilermakers, whose know-how is passed on in the traditional way, with a system of apprenticeship that enhances the value of the craft and ensures that the gestures are accurate, precise and verified.
02
Installation
of the Various Systems
The boat then moves on to its production slot, where various trades are involved. The first step is to carefully install the boat's insulation, in parallel with the various electrical wiring and interior plumbing systems.
This is also the stage at which the engine and any other systems you may have chosen, such as heating, watermaker or generator, are installed.
This is also the stage at which the engine and any other systems you may have chosen, such as heating, watermaker or generator, are installed.
03
Interior Fit-Out and Joinery Installation
Our interior modules are built and pre-assembled by Griffon Marine, Grand Large Yachting’s joinery facility.
Once the cabin soles are in place, our joiners in Cherbourg carefully install each piece of furniture, bringing the yacht’s interior to life. Our upholsterers then step in to fit the headlining with great care, adding warmth and a refined finish to the Allures interior atmosphere.
Once the cabin soles are in place, our joiners in Cherbourg carefully install each piece of furniture, bringing the yacht’s interior to life. Our upholsterers then step in to fit the headlining with great care, adding warmth and a refined finish to the Allures interior atmosphere.
04
Deck
Bonding
A key milestone in the build, deck bonding takes place once all interior modules are installed. The one-piece foam-sandwich deck is first positioned, then bonded, and kept under pressure for 48 hours. Additional mechanical fastening is then carried out from inside the hull, with a screw every 10 cm around the entire perimeter.
The bulwark then completes this joint, reinforced more rigidly to the hull through the deck. The result is perfect watertightness and optimal rigidity—hallmarks of Allures Yachting’s craftsmanship.
The bulwark then completes this joint, reinforced more rigidly to the hull through the deck. The result is perfect watertightness and optimal rigidity—hallmarks of Allures Yachting’s craftsmanship.
05
Deck Covering (Optional)
Rather than a plain aluminum deck with a simple non-slip surface, we recommend the addition of a special coating, which offers much more than just an aesthetic advantage. It improves thermal insulation, while providing more pleasant contact underfoot.
Two options are available: Flexiteek, a synthetic composite covering imitating teak, or Marinedeck, a cork and resin agglomerate. Both are highly resistant over time, maintenance-free and perfectly non-slip.
Two options are available: Flexiteek, a synthetic composite covering imitating teak, or Marinedeck, a cork and resin agglomerate. Both are highly resistant over time, maintenance-free and perfectly non-slip.
06
Deck Hardware Installation
Pulpits, winches, rope clutches, blocks, cleats, windlass… Every piece of deck hardware is carefully installed by a dedicated specialist team.
07
Masting the Sailboat
The final step before launching, the boat is removed from its slot to have its mast installed, followed by its sails, halyards, sheets, lazy-bag protective and shade fabrics.
08
Launching, Checks and Sea Trials
Your yacht finally meets the water. A full series of tests then begins. Using a detailed checklist, a dedicated team puts everything on board throught its paces: engine, thrusters, deck hardware, electronics and more.
Every sail is hoisted, and the yacht is tried under all points of sail. Once validated, she is ready for delivery.
Every sail is hoisted, and the yacht is tried under all points of sail. Once validated, she is ready for delivery.
Sail further, sail beyond
