Superyacht Refit and Rebuild Facilities
KRM Yacht is a superyacht refit and rebuild shipyard in the Eastern Mediterranean, based in Tuzla, Istanbul. Our yard is in the Tuzla marine zone on the Anatolian side of the city, with a 900-ton travel lift, 40,000 m² of hard-standing and repair quays that take yachts to 110 metres.
The lifts, the hard-standing, the fixed and covered hangars and the workshops are all ours. A yacht is hauled out, worked on and redelivered by our own people, on our own blocks and quays. Refit and rebuild is all we do. The yard was built for that one kind of work.
KRM Yacht is the first Turkish member of the ICOMIA Superyacht Refit Group, and as of 2026 still the only one. Our management systems are certified by LRQA to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. In 2023, captains and crew voted KRM the Best Superyacht Refit Yard at the Superyacht Business Awards by ACREW.
900 tons
CIMOLAI Travel lift, the largest in Türkiye, lifts yachts to 70 metres. Above that, the yard period runs afloat at the repair quays.
40,000 m²
Hard-standing that holds up to 50 yachts ashore.
110 m
Maximum length alongside. The repair quays take up to 15 superyachts.
3,500 m²
Workshops inside the yard, with a further 800 m² of storage.
Ashore, 40,000 m² of hard-standing holds up to 50 yachts. Alongside, the repair quays take up to 15 superyachts, to 110 metres. A yacht too heavy for the lift works afloat there through her yard period. Yachts ashore and alongside take shore power and fresh water from the yard. Waste goes off through our connection, and the gate is manned. Send us her LOA, beam, draught and lifting displacement, and we will confirm whether she comes ashore or works afloat before you commit to dates.
Painting Under Cover, in Controlled Temperature and Humidity
Every full repaint runs under cover, in a climate-controlled space. If one of our fixed or covered hangars is free and suits her size, she goes inside. If not, our team builds a hangar around her on the hard, so she does not wait for one. We confirm which hangar she goes into once we have her LOA, beam and air draught.
In both, we hold the temperature and humidity that the paint manufacturer specifies for the coating. Surface preparation, fairing and spraying are done by our own painting team.
Before and during spraying, the team logs temperature and humidity readings and checks dry film thickness as the coats build. Inspection is carried out by FROSIO-certified personnel. You receive the coating record at handover, so you can check the readings for every coat.
Because the work is under cover, rain and cold do not stop a repaint in an Istanbul winter.
For how a full repaint runs from preparation to topcoat, see our superyacht painting service.
3,500 m² of Workshops
Our workshops cover 3,500 m², with a further 800 m² of storage. They stand beside the hard-standing, so a pump, a hatch or a run of panelling comes off the yacht, goes straight onto a bench in our own workshop and goes back on board. Carpentry, metalwork, piping, paint and interior joinery are our own people on our own benches, so we set the order of the work ourselves. More than 300 marine professionals work across the yard and the workshops.
Interior Production Workshop
We make the interior joinery in our own 2,000 m² workshop at Darıca, our second site. Panels, furniture and fitted joinery are machined on 3-axis and 5-axis CNC, veneered and finished on the bench, then taken to the yacht and fitted. Upholstery is sewn in the same workshop as the joinery, so the panels, the furniture and the covers for one cabin are finished together.
We make the interior joinery in our own 2,000 m² workshop at Darıca, our second site, about 15 minutes from the yard.
2,000 m²
INTERIOR PRODUCTION
WORKSHOP
3- and 5-axis
CNC
machining
In-house
veneer, upholstery
and finishing
Mock-up / pre-fit
PRE-FIT, DELIVERY AND
ONBOARD INSTALLATION
Our Superyacht Interior Manufacturing page shows the machines, the benches and the fitting out on board.
Location
Most yachts arrive between October and April, coming off the Mediterranean season. A winter yard period at Tuzla puts her back in the cruising grounds for spring, a short transit from the Aegean and the East Mediterranean.
Hotels are a short drive from the gate, so crew and visiting teams stay close to the yacht for the whole period.
Tuzla is one of Türkiye's main marine production zones, so trades, materials, surveyors and suppliers stay close to the yacht through the yard period, ashore or alongside. If a part has to go out to a specialist, it goes to a workshop in the same zone, not to another city.
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is about 15 minutes from the gate. An owner's representative, a surveyor or an OEM technician can land and be at the yacht the same morning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Discuss the Next Yard Period with KRM Yacht
A refit quotation starts with three things: her main dimensions and lifting displacement, the worklist as it stands today, and the weeks you want her back in service. Send those to our project team through the quote form. Our project team reads the worklist, tells you what we would want to survey on board, and comes back with a first read on the work and the weeks. The quotation and the schedule to redelivery follow once she has been surveyed and the worklist is agreed.