Used Cheoy Lee Yachts For Sale

How did it all begin and where? Travel back in time to the year 1870 and imagine stepping into the magical Shanghai and you’ll find Cheoy Lee’s first shipyard. A yacht wasn’t the focus here though… this yard was building and repairing steam-powered vessels. The founding family (still the same family today) came much later in 1936 and relocated the shipyard to Hong Kong where power cargo vessels were birthed with the purpose of out-running the Japanese blockade. It wasn’t until the mid-1950s, that anything that resembled a sailing or motor yacht was created there but what a welcome surprise was had by all when they showed their first teak sailing and motor yachts. They brought aboard top naval architects for this feat. And a successful one it was at that as it grew so that luxury yachts grew to be approximately 90 percent of the shipyard’s production.