I · ABOUT Sixty years on one stretch of the Tuzla waterfront
THE YARD Evliya Celebi Mah. Tersaneler Cad.
Mengi Yay, Tuzla, Istanbul
1964 1964 1978 1983 1983 1986 1987 1989 1992 1996 1998 2006 2008 2010 2012 2016 2018 2020 2022 2023 2023 2024 TODAY
HISTORY FROM ROW BOATS TO SUPERYACHTS

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.

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Ramazan Mengi's workshop, a wooden hull on the hard
REWINDING 2026
AYVANSARAY, ISTANBUL This is where the line starts.
1964 — 1985 The Workshop
The Beginning
AYVANSARAY, ISTANBUL 1964

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.

MUZAFFER YAY · FOREMAN 1978

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
RELOCATION · BY DECREE 1983

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
HÜSEYIN MENGI · APPRENTICE 1983

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.

1986 — 2005 The Yard
The First Hundred
100 BOATS · SEVEN YEARS 1986

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
NB6 · 27.5 METRES 1987

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 · IN-HOUSE 1989

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.

36 METRES · SAIL 1992

Çağlar

Thirty-six metres of sail meets the water at Tuzla — the longest sailing yacht in Turkey at the time.

The Wheel Changes Hands
HÜSEYIN MENGI · CEO 1996

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
PARTNER 1998

Mustafa Mengi

The junior son joins as a partner, and brings the appetite for high-end motor yachts with him.

2006 — 2019 The Shipyard
Steel
FIRST STEEL CONTRACT 2006

Steel

The first steel superyacht contract. New material, new class regime — same yard, same people.

Gweilo
42 METRES · SCHOONER 2008

Gweilo

A two-masted wooden schooner drawn by Dykstra & Partners and built in Tuzla. Classical lines, a long keel, and no hurry about her.

Serenity II
40 METRES · TRAWLER 2010

Serenity II

Forty metres that redrew the trawler. The exterior, by Endaze Design, became a reference for the type.

Expansion
19,365 M² ACQUIRED 2012

Expansion

Six sheds, two buildings and a shipyard land — bought outright, and laid out for yachts up to 130 metres.

Aquarius
45 M · 60 LITRES AN HOUR 2016

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
125 · 135 · 145 2018

Virtus

The first line built to the yard's own account. Steel hull, aluminium superstructure, Italian lines by VYD Studio.

2020 — TODAY Reviva
Thirty-Five Thousand Square Metres
CAPACITY DOUBLED 2020

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 · ICE CLASS 2022

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+
WITH NUVOLARI LENARD 2023

NL 50+

A new line drawn with Nuvolari Lenard — the yard's first collaboration at that scale.

REFIT ENQUIRIES 2023

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
A DEDICATED HOUSE 2024

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.

TODAY
WHERE THE LINE HAS REACHED

Sixty-two years, and not one of them spent anywhere but the water's edge.

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YEARS ON THE WATER

One family, one trade, one stretch of coast — since 1964.

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OF COVERED YARD

Sheds, docks and workshops across Tuzla, Yalova and Pendik.

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LARGEST YACHT HANDLED

The upper limit of the halls, not of the ambition.

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BOATS BEFORE THE FIRST YACHT

Fishing and rowing boats, built by hand, before anything over twenty metres.

Timber battens stacked against the shed wall

THE NEXT ENTRY

Sixty-two years of building. One house that only refits.

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Timber battens stacked against the shed wall

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Sixty-two years of building. One house that only refits.

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