More sailboats: a charter operator's answer to its own frustration, in Cossutti-designed performance cruisers
More Yachts is a Croatian shipyard whose full model range traces back to one still-active design partnership and one practical grievance. It began in 2015 not from a design studio's drawing board but from the practical need of the Croatian/Swedish charter company More Charter, whose boss, Einar Haldin, could not find the boat he wanted: a 55-footer capable of winning regattas yet robust enough for intensive chartering. That gap produced the More 55, drawn by Maurizio Cossutti of Cossutti Yacht Design with modern TP52 racers in mind, and every model built since has stayed inside that same charter-born, performance-cruiser brief even as the shipyard itself changed hands in 2026.
Origins and ownership
Einar Haldin, then boss of More Charter, founded the yard out of that unmet need for a 55-footer his own charter fleet didn't have. The business is legally operated by A-MORE YACHTS, a limited liability company registered at the Commercial Court in Zagreb, with its shipyard sited in Dugopolje, Croatia.
After a long period of insolvency, the yard completed a strategic restructuring that concluded in May 2026, when Croatian boatbuilder and businessman Davor Paić took over the company. Paić was not an outside buyer: in the years before the takeover, he had already been materially building the yard's hulls himself, through his own company, MCP (More Construction & Projects). YACHT's coverage of the change described the restructuring as leaving the shipyard on its strongest and most stable financial footing since its founding.
The designers
More Yachts has had one design partner since its earliest boats: Cossutti Yacht Design, the Udine studio led by Maurizio Cossutti, which designed both the More 55 and the More 40. By Cossutti's own account, the 55's interior design, detailed engineering, and production liaison involved strict collaboration with the Pulse Yacht Design team, and the new boatyard the boat prompted soon carried the smaller More 40 into construction as well. Engineering at the yard is led separately by Leo Curin. Giornale della Vela's coverage of the 2026 ownership change reported that the Cossutti relationship continues to define the brand under Paić, calling the Udine studio the brand's ongoing "engine." At the time of the takeover, that same coverage described plans for a fifth model, the More 58CGE, an expansion into the 45-to-48-foot segment, and a presentation at that year's Venice Boat Show.
Construction through the eras
More's hulls and decks are vacuum-infused in an epoxy-based vinyl ester, with a stainless-steel frame set under the floor that carries the loads from the keel and the keel-stepped mast. That laminate is built from multi-axial, unidirectional E-glass fibers with carbon-reinforced inner liners and side longitudinals, chosen for an optimal strength-to-weight ratio; the GRP frames are laminated and glued, and every bulkhead is laminated to both deck and hull rather than just one or the other alone.
Lines and generations
The More 55 is the progenitor of the range, a nearly 17-meter design (16.70 by 5.00 meters) that started the yard. The More 40 followed as its smaller sister, entering construction less than two years after work began on the 55, and built, by outside account, to the same standard of quality. Giornale della Vela's 2026 coverage of the ownership change listed a wider lineup by that point — the More 40, 50, 50 Electric, 55, and 58, alongside two motor-yacht models still in development — spanning from the 40 up to the 58, with the 55 that began it in between.
Who More is for
YACHT's coverage placed More among a premium field that includes Grand Soleil, Solaris, Italia Yachts, X-Yachts, and Swan, and the shipyard describes itself, in that same coverage, as a boutique operation catering to individual customer wishes at the top of the quality range. That positioning traces directly back to the brand's founding brief: a boat capable of winning regattas but tough enough to survive intensive chartering, drawn by the same designer who still defines the range.