Sensation Yachts

It’s not every day you come across a half built super yacht on the salvage list of a demolition site. In 2017 that’s exactly what happened. Sensation yachts went into receivership halfway through building 3 Super-yachts, These were abandoned onsite, once Ward Demolition received the job they legally belonged to us, with rights to salvage. Two were not worth salvaging and were demolished, the other was sold after a viral nationwide search for a buyer.

Wardy’s Ark

The 49.5 metre super yacht nervously sat on the West Auckland job site surrounded by the orange Hyundai Wolves as Peter Ward threatened to demolish it if a buyer could not be located. The half built boat was estimated to be worth $18 million in the state in which it sat yet it lay abandoned in a shed for multiple years. The news of this quest went viral, first on Facebook then Stuff.co.nz where you can read more details HERE.

The magnificent yacht held too much potential to simply go to waste, it isn’t the Ward way, but we’re not boat builders we specialise in quite the opposite. The finished super yacht would weigh a staggering 280 tonnes and could accomodate 12 guests. Not your average fishing boat and it definitely won’t fit on your car trailer. So we were thrilled when it was purchased to be completed and we can’t wait to see the end results.

What we do best

Breaking things. The two other super yachts met their demise in the form of our Team of 13 and our large diggers. The big boats were in bad shape and the boys put them out of their misery as well as the 4 large buildings surrounding them. Being mostly steel sheds the recycle rate for this job was right up where we like it with 100% of this steel recycled.