With over 40 years as a proven and trusted boat designer for recreational boats, commercial operators and law enforcement agencies, we know what it takes to create a tough, dependable, high performance boat that looks great. FIND OUT MORE

When it comes to a great range of hard-working boats, you can’t go past a Naiad. Our boats are built tough to provide years of reliable and safe operations. We have a wide range of standard designs to suit almost any operation, and we can customise designs to meet your requirements whilst you benefit from all our ‘built tough’ features:

Building a RHIB or foam fendered workboat is a highly specialized craft in which experience is invaluable. That’s why Naiad has become the brand of choice in the commercial, government or military sectors. In its 30 plus years, the company has built more than 1200 boats for customers in every corner of the world looking for quality over compromise.

With decades of experience designing proven, trusted boats for commercial, recreational, and law-enforcement operations, New Zealand-based rigid hull inflatable boat designer NAIAD knows what it takes to create tough, dependable, and high-performance vessels that also look great.

Naiad Design are naval architects of world-renowned high performance RHIBs that are trusted by boating specialists across the globe for their safety, performance and style. The boats are designed for eco-tourism, recreation, luxury tenders, commercial and law-enforcement including rescue boats, patrol boat and pilot vessels.

We supply cutting-edge motion control systems to all key markets across a wide variety of hull forms, vessel sizes, speeds and applications. Our groundbreaking stabilization and multi-axis ship motion control solutions have been designed to deliver maximum comfort for yachts.

Naiad's innovative design presents an attractive, low maintenance alloy craft that is optimised for the hard working Pilots, pairing performance with Naiad's renowned soft ride, spacious cabin, excellent visibility, rough water readiness and consideration to crew comfort with air conditioning and optional extras like a small galley.

Naiad’s are renowned for being super user friendly whilst their buoyancy tubes create a whole new level of safety, assurance, and accessibility to secluded beaches, swimming spots and diving havens, whilst their speed and agility make them a favourite for wakeboarding, water skiing, fishing and coming alongside other boats.

Award-winning boat builders located near Fremantle WA specialise in NAIAD RIBs, patrol boats, pilot vessels, eco-tourers, dive boats, tender and rescue vessels.

Here is my 3.8 before and after. The most expensive boat is a cheap boat as they say, but I've enjoyed every cent spent so far. Acid washed the hull, fitted new inners and outers, put some knock off sea deck on the floor and got a 2nd hand spitfire Ali trailer.