Overing Yachts is an extension of Overing Yacht Designs, carrying the firm's design experience into a model-led new-build offering: a FAST TRACK program that reduces build time and cost by capitalizing on proven designs and time-tested engineering.
After nearly 40 years of creating custom yachts and advanced hull forms, Overing Yacht Designs has built an extensive design library. Styling trends and interior fashions evolve, while core engineering and proven hull forms change far less. Drawing on this library, Overing Yachts can offer ocean-proven, time-tested models with contemporary styling and interiors, matched with established, vetted builders.
Overing Yachts is an extension of Overing Yacht Designs, carrying the firm's design experience into a model-led new-build offering: a FAST TRACK program that reduces build time and cost by capitalizing on proven designs and time-tested engineering.
After nearly 40 years of creating custom yachts and advanced hull forms, Overing Yacht Designs has built an extensive design library. Styling trends and interior fashions evolve, while core engineering and proven hull forms change far less. Drawing on this library, Overing Yachts can offer ocean-proven, time-tested models with contemporary styling and interiors, matched with established, vetted builders.
Overing Yachts is an extension of Overing Yacht Designs, carrying the firm's design experience into a model-led new-build offering: a FAST TRACK program that reduces build time and cost by capitalizing on proven designs and time-tested engineering.
After nearly 40 years of creating custom yachts and advanced hull forms, Overing Yacht Designs has built an extensive design library. Styling trends and interior fashions evolve, while core engineering and proven hull forms change far less. Drawing on this library, Overing Yachts can offer ocean-proven, time-tested models with contemporary styling and interiors, matched with established, vetted builders.
Each model draws on Overing’s ocean-proven hull forms and time-tested engineering. Our collection spans proven models for different styles and purposes—from fast-displacement global explorers and semi-displacement, all-aluminum tridecks to coastal and express cruisers, alongside fully custom yachts.
Dauntless and Mariner models share Overing’s FD / FD2 fast-displacement hull foundations. Dauntless explorers are shaped for extended range and autonomy; Mariner models bring that proven hull performance to motoryacht styling, with distinctive layouts for owners and crews.
Overing Yachts offers a fast-track path from interest to delivery, notably reducing the wait for a new yacht. Choose an established model and specification, then personalize the details with our team. As each area is finalized with Overing Yachts, we coordinate it directly with the vetted builder, allowing construction to begin promptly after completion of the tailored contract specifications.
We welcome broker-led introductions, respect the introducing broker’s relationship with the client, and establish representation and compensation clearly at the outset. Our team works with brokers to provide clear model, specification and builder information as a client evaluates the right yacht.
Start a broker conversation ↗Good yacht design accounts for life aboard and the systems behind it. Overing brings the owner, designer and builder into a coordinated process from the first brief to the finished vessel.
Hull development, performance, stability and the vessel’s operating profile.
Exterior form, arrangement and owner-led customization around a coherent design.
Structural and systems engineering with access, redundancy and maintainability in mind.
Builder coordination, technical packages and owner representation through the build.
For more than five decades, Jon Overing has worked across naval architecture, marine engineering, shipbuilding and yacht design. His career has ranged from United States Navy and commercial-vessel programs to internationally recognized megayachts, advanced fast-displacement hull forms and the Dauntless Explorer Yacht series. Throughout that journey, he has remained guided by technical discipline, practical seamanship and an insistence that a vessel's beauty must be matched by integrity, capability and purpose.
A Lifetime’s Journey to the Most Scandalous Megayacht Refit in America
Drawing the Line is both a professional memoir and a deeply personal account of conviction under pressure. It follows Overing’s journey from a thirteen-year-old apprentice to an accomplished designer and business owner, while recounting the high-stakes legal battle that tested his reputation, faith, family, and resolve.
Offering a rare look inside the worlds of yacht design, construction, and maritime business, Drawing the Line is ultimately a story about integrity, perseverance, and the price—and enduring value—of standing one’s ground.
Explore Overing Publishing ↗Tell us where you want to go, what you want to do on the water and what matters most aboard. We’ll help shape the design around it.
