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  2. Palmer Johnson

    Luxury Yachts Shipyard. Located in America's Great Lakes region in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, with showrooms in Fort Lauderdale and Monaco, luxury yacht builder Palmer Johnson constructs high performance superyachts up to 81.4 metres in length.

  3. Sturgeon Bay Boat Works Palmer Johnson

    Sturgeon Bay WI. Most recent update: June 7, 2019. The Palmer Johnson yard was established in 1918 as Johnson and Gmack, to build fishing vessels. Hans Johnson bought out Herman Gmack after World War One and changed the name to Sturgeon Bay Boat Works. Johnson's son Palmer bought control in 1932 and later renamed the company Palmer Johnson Yachts.

  4. PALMER JOHNSON Yachts

    PALMER JOHNSON Yachts - Operating Since 1918. Palmer Johnson is one of the iconic yacht builders to emerge from the Americas. The company is located in the Great Lakes region in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The company constructs high-end performance yachts up to 81.4m, with showrooms in Fort Lauderdale and Monaco.

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  7. Storied Sturgeon Bay Yacht Builder Plans To Close Doors In October

    A high-end yacht maker in Sturgeon Bay is closing down after nearly 100 years in business, leaving 105 employees at Palmer Johnson out of a job by the end of October. The closure is linked to the Great Recession, from which the business had never truly recovered. Sturgeon Bay Mayor Thad Birmingham said Palmer Johnson's name is big in the city ...

  8. Riding the Waves of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding Industry

    Bay Ship is the county's largest employer, a title held by one of the city's major shipbuilders for most of the past 100 years. Palmer Johnson yacht builders, currently, is fifth. At its peacetime peak, Bay Ship employed about 2,000 workers. In the spring of 2008 the number was 675, but it's always in flux.

  9. Our History

    Our History. Palmer Johnson's rich history spans more than 100 years, back to 1918 when Sturgeon Bay Boat Works began. In 1956, Sturgeon Bay Boat Works was renamed Palmer Johnson Yachts and in the 1960s Bill Parsons became a partner in Palmer Johnson Yachts. Over the next 4 decades, Palmer Johnson Yachts constructed world-class vessels ranging ...

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    As the reputation for high quality yachts grew, so did orders for custom wooden yachts. When the United States entered WWII and country rallied behind the effort, Palmer Johnson, then called Sturgeon Bay Boat Works began producing 45' air-sea rescue vessels 65' T-class freighters. At wars' end, a series of custom yacht manufacturing began.

  12. Palmer Johnson: Building the World's Finest Yachts

    At war's end a few custom yachts were being made, as well as a series of 27-foot and 33-foot wooden stock sailboats. Officially named Palmer Johnson (commonly referred to as "PJ") in 1956, Texas Instruments founder Pat Haggerty bought the company in 1961. Under Haggerty, PJ earned a reputation as a world-class yacht producer and continued ...

  13. 38.9m Our Way Superyacht

    Our Way is a custom motor yacht launched in 1998 by Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay Wi, United States. Palmer Johnson has emerged from modest beginnings in 1918 as a builder of wooden fishing boats to become a world leader in the construction of luxury high-performance superyachts.

  14. 65.0m Lady M Superyacht

    Length 65.0m. Year2013. Lady M. 2013. |. Motor Yacht. Lady M is a custom motor yacht launched in 2013 by Palmer Johnson Yachts in Sturgeon Bay, WI, United States. Palmer Johnson has emerged from modest beginnings in 1918 as a builder of wooden fishing boats to become a world leader in the construction of luxury high-performance superyachts.

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  16. Harris Boat Works: An Early Sturgeon Bay Boat Builder

    Harris served as keeper of the Dunlap Reef Lighthouse from July 1882 to April 1890. Dunlap Reef keepers were able to live on the shore due to the location of the lighthouse on a shoal in the middle of the Bay of Sturgeon Bay. Because of this, Harris could run a side business building rowboats, canoes and yachts.

  17. THE SUPERYACHTS ASTRAL

    ablyoneoftheworld's truly great yacht builders. The creations that have rolled down the streets of Sturgeon Bay on their way to launch ceremonies on Lake Michigan are known to yachtsmen everywhere: the sailing yachts Kialoa Ill, Ondine, Scaramouche, Tenacious, Nirvana, the King of Spain's gas-turbine powered Fortuna and the

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  19. Boats for sale in Sturgeon bay

    Motorized yachts are more common than sailboats in Sturgeon Bay with 99 powerboats listed for sale right now, versus 2 listings for sailboats. Yacht prices in Sturgeon Bay Prices for yachts in Sturgeon Bay start at $11,200 for the lowest priced boats, up to $1,933,811 for the most expensive listings, with an average overall yacht value of $99,992.