Southern Enterprise Awards 2025/ 6 The demand for superyachts has reached new heights, with approximately 1,138 superyachts reported to be on order or under construction in 2025 alone. This surge has been driven by the evolving demands by a discerning clientele, who seek heightened luxury, privacy, and personality in their tailored travel plans. At the forefront of this growing market is Optimus Navis, a leading superyacht technical consultancy that has gained renown for its individualised, dedicated services. We took a closer look at Optimus Navis and its outstanding offerings below, as the consultancy is named in the Southern Enterprise Awards 2025. Based in Devon, Optimus Navis was founded in 2008 by Albert McIlroy, a forward-thinking CEO boasting extensive industry experience and qualifications in shore-based power production engineering, marine engineering, and marine surveying. Translating to “Best Vessel” in Latin, Optimus Navis was initially founded as a technical consultancy service, operating specifically within the realm of new build supervision for the superyachting industry. As the consultancy evolved, so too did its technical services—expanding to precontract negotiations, such as build contracts and build specification reviews. Today, Optimus Navis operates with the same core values that propelled its inception, comprising service, flexibility and adaptability, teamwork, communication, and integrity. These values guide its every operation, ensuring that its services remain rooted in authenticity and transparency. Serving a diverse client base from around the world, the consultancy offers an end-to-end service with assistance that spans design, construction, surveying, regulations, compliance, ownership structures, registration, finance, VAT, legal and operational, and final handover and delivery. First, the consultancy offers owner representation, serving as a single touchpoint between the client and shipyard to streamline the information and communication path, ensuring that production timelines are maintained to guarantee on-time delivery and best-in-class quality. The team’s unrivalled expertise in technical management allows Optimus Navis to manage the day-today technical requirements and system implementations across the project, including the design stage, outfitting, commissioning, and acceptance. Optimus Navis is equally experienced in interior consultancy and combines its resources with a seasoned onboard crew equipped to liaise with designers and ensure that the client’s vision is seamlessly transferred. Consolidating this varied expertise, Optimus Navis is uniquely positioned to oversee each project from conception, contract, and technical specification negotiations to design, construction, outfitting, sea trials, acceptance, and, ultimately, the delivery and final handover to the crew. Having successfully managed more than 20 projects, each ranging from 30 to more than 70 metres in size, Optimus Navis stands as a recognised leader in the yachting sector. These include a series of Tankoa Yachts, Rossinavi, and Maiora projects and a number of custom vessels, reaching up to 117 metres in size. Each project has been undertaken with an unwavering focus on timely delivery and the most meticulous attention to detail, ensuring that every client’s vision is successfully brought to life upon project completion. Since its inception, Optimus Navis has demonstrated unrivalled commitment, communication, and consistency. Driven by a desire to deliver exceptional client service, the consultancy recognises the importance of ensuring that each project is enjoyable, seamless, and entirely aligned with the client’s unique requirements. To ensure that each vision and request has been translated correctly and clearly to the shipbuilder, the Optimus Navis team maintains complete cohesion between the builder and its client’s team, ultimately ensuring a stress-free and rewarding construction experience for each client it serves. This dedication is shaped by the consultancy’s core values: through service, the highest standards of professionalism and service are maintained throughout; flexibility and adaptability ensures that, when faced with the unexpected, the team can adjust and reposition with ease; through teamwork, the consultancy makes positive contributions towards professional wellbeing, alignment, and growth; communication propels the team to understand and exchange information in a timely manner, encouraging positive interaction with colleagues and clients alike; and integrity ensures that transparency, confidentiality, respect, and honour are maintained across all operations. Of course, these values could not be upheld without the remarkable team behind Optimus Navis. The consultancy is steered by Albert McIlroy, its Founder, CEO, Project Director, and Superintendent. Albert is joined by Finance Director, Miles Smith, who is responsible for all financial matters across Optimus Navis. Finally, Angela Pinelli is the consultancy’s Marketing Best Superyacht Technical Consultancy 2025 – UK & Europe
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