Custom build

From first sketch to first splash

Five stages, one point of contact, weekly photographs, and a keel with your name on it. This is how a Frida comes into the world.

Marking out a template with pencil and tape measure

Design & naval architecture

4–8 weeks · your drawings to keep

It starts with a conversation — your waters, your family, your idea of a perfect afternoon. Start from a Frida model, bring a sketch, or send us a boat you love and ask the yard to re-imagine it in the Frida line: design, engineering and craft move forward together from the first pencil mark.

Or start from a model
Hull frame skeleton standing in the Bozburun shed

Hull construction

3–9 months · keel laying to planking

The keel is laminated from solid mahogany, frames rise one by one, brackets and stringers turn parts into a structure — then three crossing skins of okoume and sapelli close the hull. You receive photographs every week, and the yard shares every stage openly; many owners say the build was the best part of the boat.

How we build hulls
Deck and interior fit-out under way inside the shed

Fit-out & finishing

3–12 months · systems, teak, varnish, leather

Engine, tanks, water and electrics go in; teak decks and joinery close over them; the varnish room takes possession of everything that shines. This is when you choose hides, fabrics and hardware — the yard's favourite appointment, and yours.

The finishing trades
Aurora 27 running past the Bozburun hills on trials

Sea trials

2–4 weeks · in the bay she was born in

Every Frida earns her papers in Bozburun bay: engine hours, speed runs, systems shakedown, and a full day with you at the helm. When Aurora 27 first met the water, the yard wrote simply: "after a flawless test run, she is ready for the blue." Nothing is signed off before that sentence is true.

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Aurora 27 at anchor beneath the Aegean hills, ready for her owner

Delivery, worldwide

Cradled & shipped, or delivered on her own keel

Trailer sizes travel by road across Europe; larger hulls ship cradled or make the crossing on their own keel. Cradle, shrink-wrap, insurance and commissioning at destination are handled end to end by the yard — and the launch photos go in the journal, like every Frida before her.

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