Last updated: 5:45 AM ET, Wed June 12, 2024
Le Boat is expanding their fleet under a new agreement that will give travellers with Europe's largest private rental houseboat company more options to choose from.
The agreement with Groupe Beneteau's Delphia brand in Poland will see $100M (euros) invested into its international fleet over the next ten years. This translates to 400 Delphia boats to be built over the next decade, 100 of those made in the next three years, including at least 25 new ones made in 2025.
“We’re delighted to be building upon our long-standing relationship with Groupe Beneteau to support the next stage of Le Boat’s growth journey," said Cheryl Brown, Le Boat’s Managing Director.
"It will allow us to continue developing high quality river cruisers which our customer will love, and enable us both to expand into North America. With these innovative new boats and stunning potential cruising grounds, this offers us a fantastic opportunity to grow both the charter and boat sales sides of our business.”
These orders will be a combination of the current Horizon range, plus 34 of a premium new one to two cabin boat, aptly named "Liberty" which will be launched in 2025.
In addition, the two industry leaders will also be developing a new industry-leading three to four cabin model for launch in 2027. This new model will be designed in collaboration with Le Boat and will have both private and charter variants; the charter version will be exclusive to Le Boat. They will include full air conditioning, a superior fly bridge and provide the most premium boating experience on the waterways.
Under Le Boat’s ownership program, the agreement will also enable customers to invest in the new top-of-the-range boats. The popular program allows owners to enjoy guaranteed income whilst taking on average fourteen weeks’ holiday every year on their own boat, or a sister boat across Le Boat’s 17 cruising regions in Europe and Canada. Since 2016, The Le Boat Ownership Program was also recently rolled out to the North American Market.
The new Liberty boat range goes on sale from 11 June 2024, and will be available to cruise from selected Le Boat bases in France, Germany, England and The Netherlands in the 2025 season.
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