The largest active superyacht projects in the current SYG database, ranked by length from announced builds through construction, launch, outfitting and sea trials.
The largest superyachts under construction in 2026 span more than 120 metres at the top of the current Superyacht Guide project database, with German, Dutch, Italian, Turkish and American yards represented across the active build pipeline. This ranking uses a 10 September 2026 snapshot and includes yachts recorded as announced, construction started, hull joined, outfitting, launched or in sea trials, while excluding projects already marked delivered.
That definition is deliberately broader than “steel cutting has begun” because a yacht remains part of the construction pipeline after launch while outfitting, commissioning and sea trials continue. The result is a practical view of the largest not-yet-delivered projects visible in the SYG database rather than a narrower list limited to hulls still inside construction sheds.
The 20 largest active superyacht projects
- Project Elusive — 122.50m · Lürssen · Announced
- Project Tanzanite — 120.00m · Amels · Sea Trials
- Project 1014 — 101.20m · Feadship · Sea Trials
- Project 828 — 89.60m · Feadship · Sea Trials
- Royal Huisman Project 410 — 85.00m · Royal Huisman · Outfitting
- Royal Huisman Project 412 — 81.00m · Royal Huisman · Hull Joined
- Amels 8005 — 80.00m · Amels · Outfitting
- Amels 8004 — 80.00m · Amels · Outfitting
- Feadship Project 826 — 80.00m · Feadship · Launched
- Project Y729 — 80.00m · Oceanco · Outfitting
- Amels 8006 — 79.80m · Amels · Construction Started
- Custom DY 75 Hybrid — 75.00m · Damen Yachting · Construction Started
- Project Ananda — 72.30m · Heesen Yachts · Announced
- Project Thunderball — 70.00m · CRN Yachts · Launched
- Project Master — 70.00m · ICON Yachts · Outfitting
- Zero — 68.90m · Vitters Shipyard · Sea Trials
- Sea Raider X — 67.00m · ISA Yachts · Launched
- Project Poe — 67.00m · CRN Yachts · Construction Started
- Tankoa 61MT Full Custom C135 — 61.00m · Tankoa Yachts · Construction Started
- Xplorer 6002 — 60.10m · Damen Yachting · Construction Started
The current leader is Lürssen’s 122.5-metre Project Elusive, followed closely by the 120-metre Project Tanzanite at Amels. Feadship’s 101.2-metre Project 1014 is the largest active Dutch custom project in the snapshot, while Project 828 at 89.6 metres and Royal Huisman’s 85-metre Project 410 show how strongly the Netherlands is represented near the top of the list.
The 80-metre band is especially crowded. Amels 8005, Amels 8004, Feadship Project 826 and Oceanco Project Y729 all sit at 80 metres, with Amels 8006 just below at 79.8 metres. Their statuses range from launched and outfitting to active construction, illustrating how a simple length ranking can place projects at very different points in their build cycle.
Launch does not mean delivery
A yacht that has touched water can still have months of work ahead because interior completion, harbour trials, systems commissioning, owner acceptance and sea trials often continue after launch. For that reason, Sea Raider X, Project Thunderball and Feadship Project 826 remain in this active list while their database status is launched rather than delivered.
Sea trials are even closer to completion but still represent an unfinished delivery process. Project Tanzanite, Project 1014, Project 828 and the 68.9-metre sailing yacht Zero are recorded in sea trials in the current snapshot, so they remain within the ranking until the delivery event is independently confirmed and the database status changes.
This distinction matters because public reporting often uses “launched” and “delivered” interchangeably when they describe very different milestones. A launch establishes that the yacht is afloat; delivery means the owner has formally taken possession after the contractual and technical acceptance process.
Dutch yards dominate the active pipeline
When builder countries are normalised so “Netherlands” and “The Netherlands” are treated as one country, Dutch yards account for 25 of the 41 active projects in the current public fleet snapshot. Italy follows with 10, Turkey with four, while Germany and the United States each have one qualifying active project in this particular database view.
The Dutch concentration reflects several distinct production models. Feadship and Oceanco focus on large custom yachts, Royal Huisman contributes major sailing projects, while Amels and Damen Yachting combine custom work with repeat platform families that can generate several active hulls at the same time.
Italy’s active list is spread across CRN, Tankoa, ISA and other builders, with a particularly dense group between 50 and 70 metres. Tankoa alone has several current hulls in the database, including its 61-metre full-custom C135, 56-metre T560 Apache C132 and multiple 50–55 metre projects.
Why order books are difficult to compare
A database ranking can only include projects whose existence, builder and status are sufficiently confirmed to publish. Secretive custom projects, confidential hull numbers and builds announced without reliable dimensions can therefore sit outside the list until primary information becomes available, which means the ranking should not be read as a complete measure of every contract held by every yard.
Yards also count order books differently. One may include signed projects that have not reached visible construction, another may announce only after keel laying, and a group such as Damen Yachting can operate multiple product families under connected brands, so corporate order-book totals are not always directly comparable with individual builder records.
Superyacht Guide therefore ranks the yachts themselves rather than relying on promotional yard totals. Each project in the list has a live fleet page with a recorded length and active status, giving readers a reproducible basis for the ordering even when the commercial details of the underlying contracts remain private.
What the top projects say about 2026
The most striking feature is the persistence of very large custom construction above 80 metres alongside a much broader concentration of 50–80 metre projects. The market is not being driven by a single size class; instead, giga-yacht programmes coexist with platform-based builds, explorer projects and large sailing yachts across several countries.
Explorer and support-vessel demand also appears in the pipeline through Damen Xplorer and Yacht Support projects, while Royal Huisman and Vitters keep large sailing yacht construction visible among the predominantly motor-yacht order book. That mix matters because the engineering, build time and operating profile of a 70-metre explorer, an 85-metre sailing yacht and an 80-metre conventional motor yacht can be very different even when their headline lengths are similar.
The list will change as 2026 progresses because sea-trial yachts will deliver, launched yachts will move into commissioning and newly announced projects will enter the database. The 10 September date is therefore part of the result: it is a current ranking of the largest active SYG projects, not a permanent historical table frozen for the whole calendar year.
