Fort Lauderdale · Since the 1990s
The shop the world's leading yachts trust with class-certified work — and the manufacturing partner engineers call when a part has to be right.
Photograph — shop floor, wide: vessel, crew, machines working · Marketing / Photos & Video / Projects
APB operates under an ISO 9001:2015 quality system. Our welders are certified by ABS, Lloyd's Register and RINA, and our work is performed to USCG requirements — the certifications that let a vessel go back to survey, and a part go into service.
What do you need built, repaired or installed?
Refit, class welding, valve testing, carpentry, composites, paint — in our yard, at your dock, or at yards across the region.
→ 025-axis waterjet, CNC forming, routing and machining — one-offs to production runs, marine to aerospace-adjacent.
→ 03Documented, certified capability for classification societies, commercial operators, insurers and public-sector buyers.
→ 04APB-built equipment and the marine brands we sell, install and service — stabilization, doors and hatches, watermakers, davits.
→Photograph — Smartgyro SG20 aboard Chelsea Rae · Marketing / SmartGyro / 07 Photos & Visuals
Built by APB
Three decades of vessels, components and installations, photographed as they happened. A gyro running aboard the yard's own sportfish. Class-witnessed structural work on the world's mega yachts. Production parts cut on the largest waterjet footprint in Florida.
The long way here
APB started where it still stands — on the water in Fort Lauderdale, doing marine fabrication the right way. Every era since added a capability: class certification, a full pipe shop and valve testing, carpentry, composites and paint, a machine shop, CNC forming, the Flow 500 waterjet.
Today that accumulation is the point: one shop that can refit a mega yacht, manufacture a production run, and stand behind both with the same certifications.
Photograph — early-era APB: shop, crew, or the 2018 Fabricator Industry Award · marketingteam legacy library
Every request goes straight to the team that will do the work — not a general inbox.