Chantiers Amel is a shipyard which was founded in La Rochelle by French yacht designer Henri Amel in 1965.
The shipyard produces blue-water cruising fiberglass ketches which included a popular 16 metre series branded Meltem, Mango, Super Maramu and Amel 54, as well as smaller sloop and ketch series branded Kirk, Fango, Euros, Sharki and Maramu. All discontinued series were designed by Henri Amel, who was blind for an extended period of his career. Yacht design is now outsourced to the Jean Berret & Olivier Racoupeau firm who have developed the Amel 64 flagship and the Amel 55, now in production.
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