Custom yacht & superyacht design
Owners' reps, brokers, yard design teams. Referral first, website second. The site confirms the introduction or ends it.
Web design & SEO for naval architects · Mediterranean
Known by referral. Found by search.
Your next commission may come from a name passed along, or from a yard in Rotterdam searching marine design services. We make sure your website answers both.
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759
Marine businesses we mapped across France, Monaco and Italy
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37%
Of them had no website listed
The credential problem
They already have your name
Unlike building architects, naval architects have no statutory register in France. IFAN and FIN are professional bodies, not legal registers.
Your credentials, experience and reputation must speak for themselves.
When no register exists, your website becomes the register.
Search behaviour reinforces this: prospective clients often search for individual firms, not just the profession. They're not discovering you. They're checking you.
What clients actually typed
"marine design services"275
"designer naval"200
"naval designer"190
"naval architecture design services"181
"naval design"162
Google search impressions for one naval architecture website we manage. Source: Google Search Console.
Who we work with
Naval design is not one market
Same qualification, different clients. Each one finds you differently.
Refit & conversion engineering
Captains, technical managers, yards missing a discipline in-house. Search drives enquiries directly.
Commercial & workboat design
Fleet operators and industrial yards on class deadlines. Compliance evidence beats styling.
Independent consultancy & survey
Stability, structure, scantlings, expert opinion. Commissioned per problem, found per discipline.
Search language
Your clients use different words
Bureaus write
naval architecture
Clients search
naval design
Bureaus describe themselves as naval architecture practices.
Clients search naval design, naval designer and marine design services.
Different words, different results. A site that never uses them doesn't show up for them.
Want the wider picture? We mapped 759 marine businesses in France, Monaco and Italy. Read our Mediterranean research
Bureau verification check
Would your bureau pass the check?
Seven things a yard, owner's rep or insurer looks for. Tick what you have.
Tick what is true today.
Deliverables
What we actually build for you
Not a template. Built around how technical clients check a bureau.
Credentials as evidence
Qualifications, institutions, IFAN / ATMA / SYDNA where relevant. The register that doesn't exist.
Structured vessel record
LOA, material, displacement, scope, yard, year, class. "Have they done one like mine?" answered at a glance.
A page per discipline
Stability, structure, scantlings, conversions, compliance. Each one is a separate search.
Class society & flag experience
Lloyd's Register, RINA, Bureau Veritas, flag administrations. A filter before it's a preference.
Brand search cleanup
Your name returns your site first. Consistent details everywhere else.
English & French, properly
Correct technical terms in both. Each language indexed for its own market.
Why it matters who builds it
A generic agency will get this wrong
Generic web agency
- Builds a portfolio of renderings, not proof
- Targets "naval architecture", misses "naval design"
- Doesn't know IFAN, ATMA or SYDNA
- One services page for every discipline
- Machine-translated technical terms
Lautryv
- Credentials, class and vessel record found in under a minute
- Keywords from measured search data
- 759 marine businesses mapped across France, Monaco and Italy
- One page per discipline, matched to real demand
- Based in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, working with marine businesses across the Mediterranean
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Shipyard servicesHow it works
From nothing to shortlisted
Week 1
Brief
Your disciplines, markets, credentials and vessel record, gathered in one place. We agree the structure.
Weeks 2–3
Build
Credentials, vessel record, discipline pages, English and French content, schema. WordPress and Elementor Pro. You review every technical page.
Week 4
Launch & index
Search Console, sitemap, schema checks, directory cleanup. Your name resolves cleanly from day one.
Ongoing
You own it
No lock-in, no monthly fees. An asset, not a subscription. SEO, Google Ads and web care are optional.
FAQ
Questions from bureaus
Don't see yours? Ask us, we'll answer straight.
Ready when you are
Let's start working
Tell us what you design, who commissions it and where the work comes from. We reply within 24 hours.
Or email directly — info@lautryv.com