CMN Yachts have a heritage that dates back to 1912 when Felix Amiot aircraft put Normandy on the aeronautical stage.
 
Aircraft design and production gave way to shipbuilding, both commercial and military, developing advanced high performance vessels and was the driving force to develop the shipyard into cutting-edge computer technologies, engineering techniques and quality work hand-in-hand with the ability to compress build times which impacts now on the production of high quality, exceptionally engineered luxury superyachts.
 
Milestones over the intervening years, from commercial and military shipbuilding to the luxury superyachts of today, have created the power house that includes cutting edge composite engineers, JMV Industries and a yard driven by passionate people equipped with the latest digital tools to produce exceptional products.
 
The journey to reach the highest levels in yacht building started in 1960, setting the future for many more milestone achievements.
 
It is in the sixties that CMN brought their knowledge of leading edge technology to the yachting industry with the construction of serials of Maïca, an 11-metre sailing yacht designed by Illingworth and Primrose.

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, among other projects for famous Yacht skippers, CMN launched  Paul Ricard for Eric Tabarly and Kriter IV for Olivier de Kersauzon.
 
The aluminium ice-breaking exploration sailing yacht Antarctica, built in 1989, again illustrates the innovative approach found at CMN. This unique exploration ship was used as a support vessel for the Transamerica Expedition end the Erebus expedition.
 
With the luxury yacht market expending into larger and larger yachts in the nineties, CMN YACHT DIVISION undertook projects over 140’ such as the schooner Friday Star or the Expedition yacht French Look II.
 
The new millennium saw CMN Yachts launching larger motor yachts like Bermie II and Héloval, and sailing yachts such as Attimo and Lady Barbaretta.
 
Today, with three 197'/60m motor yachts in production, CMN YACHT DIVISION is becoming a powerful new bench marque in luxury yacht building.