A naval design house in Copenhagen. We design patrol craft, yacht tenders and expedition vessels around the work they have to do, and have them built by partner yards close to where they will operate.
Start with the missionMost boats are a platform stretched across many missions. We design the vessel for the mission.
What the mission needsWaterline · all vessels to the same scale
For police, coast guards, harbour and rescue services. A boat that does one job in its own waters, all day, every day, without the compromises of a catalogue hull.
For owners and captains. A tender designed for its yacht: its garage, its crane, its guests and the anchorages it visits. Quiet, low and easy to handle alongside.
For private clients going further than a production boat was ever meant to go. Range, seakeeping and self-sufficiency first, then everything else.
The vessel that has no category yet. A multihull, a concept, a statement piece. If the mission is clear, we can design it.
Method
Designing a new vessel used to take too long and cost too much, so the industry adapted platforms instead. Our design process is built to change that: a vessel designed for each mission, delivered as quickly as others adapt a platform.
We start with the operating profile: who uses the vessel, where, for how long and in what sea.
Hull, structure, layout and systems designed for that profile, documented from the first line.
A partner yard in or near the client's region builds the vessel, with our support on site.
Drawings and data stay available for service, refit and the next vessel in the series.
Work
Concepts are shown with their design targets. Delivered work is shown without client names, and some studies stay under NDA.
We designed both for the same mission and let physics choose. Below 11 knots one hull wins; above 12 the two converge. That is why we design for the mission, not around a platform.
01 Meridian · Solar expedition catamaran · 19 m
02 Longitude · Expedition passagemaker · 20 m monohull
Solar expedition catamaran · 19 m
A 19-metre platform that treats the sun as a second fuel tank: two knife-slender hulls, an ocean-rated diesel heart and a silent electric drive. Built to slip over the horizon and stay gone until its owner decides otherwise.
Expedition passagemaker · 20 m monohull
The ocean-crossing yacht reduced to pure physics: one slender hull, one engine built to run day and night for decades, an ocean in a single tank. Designed so that two people can take it anywhere, with no crew.
Displacement touring fleet for charter
Charter sailboats spend most of their hours under engine. So we asked what the optimal displacement touring boat looks like. Every length and beam is set at the exact line where licences, harbour fees and road transport change. Slender, frugal and quiet, made for operators who run hard and guests who come back.
Low-wash electric catamaran
Its shape comes from computational fluid dynamics, not habit: hulls so slim they part the water instead of pushing it. A silent, low-wash electric platform for researchers, rangers and transfers in places where noise and wake are not an option.
The catamaran laboratory
A 13-metre weekender, a 21-metre explorer, a maximum-volume platform in composite versus aluminium. Each concept is a question put to physics: how much space, how little power, which material wins. The answers are kept under NDA and shape everything we design.
High-speed patrol · 12 m
A proven twin-outboard hull family reconfigured for the mission: deliberately stepless, stable at speed and buildable anywhere with a capable local partner. From first lines to a complete build package in days, not seasons.
Electric day-charter fleet · 18–24 ft
Three sizes, one idea: the boat as a living room on the water, built around the people rather than the helm. Silent and electric, made to be handed to first-time skippers season after season and come back ready for the next.
Superyacht tenders · 23–32 ft
Production hulls re-engineered to live aboard someone else's yacht: three day-boat platforms from 23 to 32 feet, delivered as customised tenders to superyachts. The same discipline that makes a series boat right, applied for owners who accept nothing off the shelf.
Origin
2013
Azure Kinetics is led by Carl Rand, a trained architect who has designed boats in Copenhagen since 2013 and built electric powerboats from the first year.
More than a thousand of his boats are on the water, about half of them electric. That experience with hulls, electric propulsion and partner yards is what goes into every new mission.
Contact
Tell us what the vessel has to do, where it will operate and when it is needed. We reply personally.