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A spirit of excellence
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Selene has a 25 year tradition of building elegant long range cruising trawlers for exploring and adventures. Initially, Jet Tern Marine, which manufactures the Selene Yachts was based in Taiwan, with a shipyard in Dongguan, China. Jet Tern Marine is a division of the Jet Tern Group owned by the Chen Family. Howard Chen, founded Jet Tern Marine in 1998. Selene Ocean Yachts quickly became a leading world brand in luxury long-range trawlers and explorer yachts.
Dongguan is known for its high-end furniture industry. As a result, many of the materials that Jet Tern has used to create the luxurious interiors of Selene Yachts were readily available. High quality woods and veneers, fabrics, granite, and glass were all easy to find locally. In addition, skilled labour was plentiful in the region, and the local climate is ideal for fiber-glass lamination.
What’s in a name?
In 1970, a famous Taiwanese architect named Dr. Da-Hong designed a memorial to commemorate the successful Apollo 11 moon landing. Since the NASA project was called Apollo, after the Greek god of the sun, and the project’s goal was moon exploration, Mr. Wang decided it would be appropriate to name the memorial Selene after the mythical Greek goddess of the moon. Years later, Howard Chen became a student of Mr. Da-Hong Wang at the School of Architecture of Tunghai University in Taiwan. When he learned about the memorial he decided to call his new line of yachts Selene. The first yacht arrived in the United States in 1999, and to date there are more than 400 of them cruising around the world!
A new landscaped shipyard in Zhuhai
In 2008, Jet Tern opened another shipyard in Zhuhai near Macau, 70 miles from Dongguan. Howard designed the landscaping for the new facility and he also invested a lot of time in the design of the facilities. The Zhuhai shipyard includes two workshops A & B each approximately 150,000 square feet and a warehouse of 32,000 square feet. Workshop B, is equipped with four cranes capable of lifting 100 tons, and is the biggest single production shop in Asia. It can accommodate 36 sets of molds or boats under construction.
A new anchoring dock
The facilities at Zhuhai are far superior to the original shipyard in Dongguan and Zhuhai is located on the water. This makes getting the yachts into the water for testing much easier. There are plans to build an anchoring dock in Zhuhai.
For many years Jet Tern built the smaller yachts in Dongguan and the larger ones in Zhuhai. Over the past 20 years, Jet Tern has built almost 400 yachts ranging in size from 38 feet to 103 feet in these two shipyards. In 2017 the decision was made to consolidate the production of all yachts in Zhuhai. During the latter half of 2017 Jet Tern began moving all of their molds, tooling and some of the staff to Zhuhai.
As of 2018, all boats are manufactured in Zhuhai