In 1964 an eleven-year-old left Kastamonu for a boatyard in Ayvansaray and asked to be taught. Everything this yard knows, it has been learning ever since.
The Beginning
An eleven-year-old leaves Kastamonu for a boatyard in Ayvansaray and asks to be taught. Twelve years of apprenticeship later, Ramazan Mengi opens a workshop of his own.
A Second Pair of Hands
Muzaffer Yay joins as foreman. The workshop gains the discipline it had been short of, and stops being one man's trade.
Tuzla
A state resolution moves the yachting trade out of the city. The workshop goes with it, to a stretch of Tuzla waterfront it has not left since.
Eleven, Again
The founder's elder son starts where his father started, at exactly the age his father started. Nobody in this family has been given a shortcut.
The First Hundred
One hundred fishing and rowing boats in seven years — then the first commissions over twenty metres, and the workshop stops being a workshop.
The Longest Gulet Afloat
Drawn, built and delivered inside twelve months. The day she launched, no gulet in the country was longer.
Over Thirty Metres
Mega yachts, designed and engineered by the yard's own team. The drawing board was never outsourced then. It still isn't.
Çağlar
Thirty-six metres of sail meets the water at Tuzla — the longest sailing yacht in Türkiye at the time.
The Wheel Changes Hands
Thirteen years on the floor, then the office. Every decision made here since has been made by someone who has built one.
Mustafa Mengi
The junior son joins as a partner, and brings the appetite for high-end motor yachts with him.
Steel
The first steel superyacht contract. New material, new class regime — same yard, same people.
Gweilo
A two-masted wooden schooner drawn by Dykstra Naval Architects and built in Tuzla. Classical lines, a long keel, and no hurry about her.
Serenity II
Forty metres that redrew the trawler. The exterior, by Endaze Design, became a reference for the type.
Expansion
Six sheds, two buildings and a shipyard land — bought outright, and laid out for yachts up to 130 metres.
Aquarius
Laminated wooden epoxy, sixty litres an hour at 8.7 knots, 4,138 miles on a single fill. The widest range in her class, on the smallest tanks.
Virtus
The first line built to the yard's own account. Steel hull, aluminium superstructure, Italian lines by VYD Studio.
Thirty-Five Thousand Square Metres
More hangars, modernised. New build and refit now run side by side, under the same roofs and the same foremen.
Virtus 53 XP
Hybrid propulsion, ice-class capability and a touch-and-go helipad — an expedition yacht that argues with its own category.
NL 50+
A new line drawn with Nuvolari Lenard — the yard's first collaboration at that scale.
The Question Kept Coming
Enquiry after enquiry, for yachts this yard never built. The pattern was not a side effect. It was a business waiting to be named.
Reviva
Founded by Ramazan Mengi and Mengi Yay: a house that does nothing but refit, run by a yard that has been building since 1964.
Sixty-two years, and not one of them spent anywhere but the water's edge.
One family, one trade, one stretch of coast — since 1964.
Sheds, docks and workshops across Tuzla, Yalova and Pendik.
The upper limit of the halls, not of the ambition.
Fishing and rowing boats, built by hand, before anything over twenty metres.
