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We track 18 known superyacht refit projects across 11 yards expected to deliver in 2026. Of those, 7 are on schedule for the announced window, 4 are sliding by 1 to 6 months, and 7 have no public delivery date because the owner or yard has not communicated one. The slip-rate of 22 percent is consistent with prior years and reflects the structural reality that big-yard refits run long. The publishable list is below, ranked by delivery slot, with what we know about each project. Where confirmation is sparse, we mark and update monthly.
This page exists for two audiences. First, charter clients trying to understand which inventory will return to the market in 2026 and at what point. Second, buyers looking at refit-needed yachts and trying to understand the practical lead time on yard slots. The third audience is yard sales engineers who want to see how their competition is reading.
How to read the tracker
Each entry has the same fields. Yacht (name where public, generic descriptor where redacted). Yard. Scope (mechanical, paint, interior, propulsion, structural). Original delivery slot. Current status (on schedule / sliding / no public date). Implication for charter or sale.
The 18 projects below are the ones we have meaningful intelligence on. The total 2026 superyacht refit pipeline is closer to 60 to 80 projects across the major yards, but most are private and not trackable in a public document.
On schedule (7 of 18)
1. 60m Northern European motor yacht, Lurssen, Bremen
Scope: full propulsion overhaul plus interior refresh. Slot: November 2025 to August 2026. Status: on schedule as of April 2026. Implication: re-enters Med charter program for the 2027 season. 2026 season Med inventory does not include this yacht.
2. 50m Italian motor yacht, Amico, Genoa
Scope: paint plus stabilizer upgrade plus tender garage rebuild. Slot: January 2026 to June 2026. Status: on schedule. Implication: returns to Med charter for the late 2026 season, available August onward. Worth tracking for late-summer 2026 weeks at competitive rates.
3. 70m sailing yacht, Pendennis, Falmouth
Scope: rig replacement, deck rework, full interior refit. Slot: October 2025 to July 2026. Status: on schedule. Implication: returns for the 2027 Med charter season. 2026 fall transit possible if delivery holds.
4. 35m sportfish, Rybovich, West Palm Beach
Scope: engine repower plus interior refresh. Slot: March 2026 to June 2026. Status: on schedule. Implication: returns to Bahamas charter for the late 2026 season.
5. 45m motor yacht, MB92, Barcelona
Scope: paint plus engineering refresh. Slot: November 2025 to May 2026. Status: on schedule. Implication: returns to Med charter for the second half of the 2026 season.
6. 80m motor yacht, Blohm+Voss, Hamburg
Scope: structural plus engineering plus full interior. Slot: June 2025 to October 2026. Status: on schedule per yard sources, with the usual late-season slip risk. Implication: misses the 2026 charter season entirely. 2027 Med inventory addition.
7. 38m fast displacement, Astilleros de Mallorca, Palma
Scope: paint plus tender refresh plus minor engineering. Slot: February 2026 to May 2026. Status: on schedule. Implication: returns for the 2026 charter season at the front of summer.
Sliding (4 of 18)
8. 65m Northern European motor yacht, Lurssen, Bremen
Scope: full hybrid propulsion conversion (the headline one). Original slot: October 2024 to March 2026. Now: October 2024 to August 2026 (5-month slip). Reason for slip: hybrid propulsion components from a third-party supplier delayed by 4 months in Q3 2025. The slip cascades. Implication: misses the 2026 Med charter season. Owner's program had assumed a June 2026 return. The August delivery now puts the yacht into 2027 charter unless the owner runs a private use bridge.
9. 55m Dutch motor yacht, Damen Yachting, Vlissingen
Scope: refit plus charter program prep. Original slot: September 2025 to February 2026. Now: September 2025 to June 2026 (4-month slip). Reason for slip: scope expansion mid-project after a survey turned up corrosion in a fuel tank area. Yard added 12 weeks of structural work. Implication: re-enters Med charter program August 2026. A late-summer Med charter slot is now available that was not previously planned.
10. 42m sailing yacht, Royal Huisman, Vollenhove
Scope: rig replacement plus interior refresh. Original slot: November 2025 to April 2026. Now: November 2025 to July 2026 (3-month slip). Reason for slip: rig fabrication delay at the spar maker. Implication: misses the front of the 2026 charter season. Available from August 2026.
11. 48m motor yacht, Italian yard, name
Scope: hybrid propulsion conversion plus paint. Original slot: January 2026 to July 2026. Now: January 2026 to November 2026 (4-month slip). Reason for slip: hybrid component supply chain plus a paint scope expansion. Implication: misses the 2026 charter season entirely. Sale or charter program restart 2027.
No public delivery date (7 of 18)
12 to 18: 7 projects with confirmed in-yard status, no public delivery date
These projects are confirmed by independent sources to be in yard at the announced facility but no delivery date has been published or shared with us. The yards involved include Lurssen, Feadship, Pendennis, Lurssen Rendsburg, Royal Huisman, ICON Yachts, and Mariotti. Sizes range from 42m to 95m. Scopes range from paint and interior refresh to full propulsion conversion.
The pattern. Roughly one-third of large refits do not communicate a public delivery date until 60 to 90 days before delivery. This is partly owner preference (privacy), partly yard practice (avoiding the embarrassment of public slips), and partly a reflection of the scope-expansion risk that makes any early date a liability. We do not name the seven projects here because the source pipeline depends on confidentiality.
Yard-by-yard read
Lurssen. Two confirmed projects on the tracker plus several without delivery dates. The hybrid-propulsion supply chain is the headline issue across multiple Lurssen 2026 deliveries. Yard execution remains the industry benchmark, but the third-party supplier dependency is the systemic risk.
Feadship. No projects with public delivery dates. The Feadship culture is to communicate at delivery, not before. Track quietly.
Pendennis. Strong year on paper, with the 70m sailing rig replacement on schedule. Pendennis sailing-yacht refits remain the global benchmark for major-rig work.
Amico. Steady, on schedule. The Italian yard with the cleanest 2026 reputation among the three big Italian yards.
MB92 Barcelona. The major Med refit yard. Two confirmed deliveries on schedule. MB92 has been the quiet beneficiary of overflow from the Northern European yards.
Damen Yachting. One slip on the tracker plus several private projects. The Dutch yard's strength is process discipline, and the slip on the 55m is scope-expansion driven, not yard-execution driven.
Royal Huisman. One slip on the rig fabrication. Royal Huisman has the strongest sailing-yacht refit ecosystem outside of Pendennis, and a 3-month slip on a major rig is within tolerance.
Italian yards (excluding Amico). Mixed. The hybrid-propulsion conversion projects are the slip-risk category for 2026.
US yards. Rybovich on schedule. Bradford Marine, Lauderdale Marine Center, and Westport refit slots are in the same range but mostly private and not on this tracker.
What this means for charter clients
Of the 18 projects, 11 will not deliver in time for the front of the 2026 Med charter season (June and July). 4 deliver in late August. The August onward inventory is therefore meaningfully better than the June onward inventory for the 2026 season.
If you are flexible on dates, look at late August to mid-October Med weeks. The refit-returning fleet is what makes that window worth booking. If you are locked to a July week, you are choosing from the inventory that was always going to be on water, not the inventory that is just back from refit.
For 2026 Caribbean charter, the picture is different. The Caribbean fleet is smaller, the refit pipeline runs through US yards mostly, and the 2026 season inventory is largely set. Read Caribbean charter weekly rates for the cost picture.
What this means for buyers looking at refit-needed inventory
The 4 sliding projects on the tracker are the data point. Big-yard refits slip 3 to 6 months on roughly 1 in 4 projects. If you are buying a refit-needed yacht and the financial model assumes a 12-month refit, build a 16-month case as your floor and an 18-month case as the realistic plan. The yards that are most reliable on schedule for 2026 (Amico, Pendennis, MB92) all have refit slot waitlists of 6 to 14 months. If you buy in summer 2026 and want a top-yard refit slot, expect the yard to start work in early 2027 at the earliest.
Hybrid-propulsion conversions are the slip risk to watch. Component supply chains are still recovering. If you are buying a yacht expecting to convert to hybrid in refit, build a 24-month delivery case and a 12-month financial buffer.
Methodology
Sources include yard sales-engineer relationships, central agent relationships, MarineTraffic AIS data showing yacht presence at refit yards, owner-side disclosures published in industry press, and reader-submitted intelligence from captains and project managers. Each entry is independently confirmed by at least two sources before publication. The 7 "no public delivery date" entries are confirmed in-yard but undated. We do not publish names where confidentiality has been requested.
The tracker is updated monthly. Major delivery events (slip announcements, sea-trial photos, redelivery) trigger an inline update with a date stamp.
Passed on
Three projects we considered tracking and chose not to.
A North American refit at a yard whose scope and timeline are both speculative as of April 2026. Not enough confirmed information.
A Mediterranean owner's-prerogative refit where the owner has asked the yard to keep the project off all public registers. We honor that.
A small refit (under 30m) that does not match the threshold for this tracker. We focus on 35m and up here. Smaller refits matter to their owners but do not move charter or sale market dynamics.
Next update
The next refresh of this tracker is scheduled for June 15, 2026, which is the standard 30-day cycle. Major slips or deliveries between now and then are added inline with date stamps.