Lazzara Yachts- A Remarkable Legacy That Endures To This Day
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Lazzara Yachts is a family-owned company with over 50 years of boat building experience. Our commitment is to build yachts of exceptional quality that set the industry standard for innovation, while creating for our family of owners, the highest level of customer service and support.
Design
Lazzara Yachts is a family owned company, which gives it a tremendous amount of flexibility. The focus is simple; create an experience that exceeds the yacht owner’s expectations. If there was one word to sum up the group at Lazzara, that word would be passion. There is not a design and engineering group in the world that create with a more empowered initiative, to seek perfection and become the innovation stylists of their time.
The purpose of design for Lazzara is more than creating a fluid window line or a unique hull shape; it’s to create an emotion. One that connects the owner's lifestyle through his yacht to the sea. There is an energy and momentum that comes with the ability to bring a design from concept to market faster than any other company. Lazzara Yachts can go from a conceptual sketch to a finished product within 10 months. This allows the company to create the most current, innovative yachts in the world.
Lazzara's design and engineering team is built upon the best experience in both traditional and modern methods of product development. Each new concept goes from pencil and marker sketches to being hand modeled in clay. It is then scanned in real time 3D and refined for surfacing and part manufacture.
At this stage the design is either sent to the rapid prototype 3D printer or the five axis router for a model or part to be made. Once satisfied with results, the new yacht is put into production. While product development is working on the concept and tooling, Lazzara Yachts award winning Interior design team is planning the living spaces aboard the vessel. Drawing on a wide range of resources the Lazzara Interior Design studio offers a library that rivals the best of residential studios, and other yacht builders alike.
The Lazzara Designers not only work closely with product development but are also an integral component in the sales and manufacture of each yacht. They partner with the owners and help them to personalize the yacht of their dreams. It's the passion which stirs emotions that makes life more exhilarating. Lazzara designs their yachts that way because their owners use them that way.
Manufacturing
Lazzara Yachts is headquartered in a 130,000 sq ft facility on a 24 acre peninsula in Tampa, Florida manufacturing yachts in lengths of 75’ - 116’. They employ close to 500 craftspeople of various trades from over 78 different nations. Some of these skilled individuals trace there lineage back to working under Vince Lazzara at Gulfstar Yachts in the 1970's and now some of their children are building yachts with Lazzara.
Being a family builder has it advantages and ingenuity. It has propelled Lazzara Yachts to the forefront of modern boat building. Honing the skills and techniques over decades of maritime construction Lazzara has excelled in both lean and vertical manufacturing. This means decreasing the construction footprint by having multiple stages simultaneously underway. So on the LSX product line, while the hull and deck are being laid up in their molds, the interior of the yacht is being built, plumbed and wired on the factory floor.
When the other components are ready, the interior module is lifted up and lowered into the hull. It is precisely fitted and mounted atop Lazzara's patented isolation system, which is series of rubber pads used to eliminate vibration. Ask any yacht owner about the things that attracted them to their Lazzara and most of them will say the interior styling. The caliber of the fit and finish is second to none.
Lazzara builds all of the cabinetry and fixed furniture included on the yachts. They have standardized a template-based system that enables surfaces with different wood veneers and finishes to be efficiently produced and interchanged. This not only offers superior choices but reduces the weight of each piece.
Handcrafted “piano-like”, polyester finishes are applied to the furniture panels. This finishing is unmatched in both durability and presentation. Lazzara Yachts is still the only production yacht builder to allow its owners to choose from different types of interior wood finishes. The result is a yacht that is uniquely theirs, and not just another copy off the production line.
These manufacturing processes reduce hours, increase quality and allow the owner to see his dream come to life sooner. It's these kinds of ideas that come out of Lazzara's passion to build the best yachts.
www.lazzara.com
813-835-5300
