Our History
Artemis is a brand of the Selene shipyard founded in 1998 by Howard Chen. With a spirit of excellence and great design, Selene Yachts quickly became a leading world brand in the luxury long-range trawlers and explorer yachts galaxy.
In 1970, a famous Taiwanese architect named Dr. Da-Hong designed a memorial to commemorate the successful « Apollo 11 » moon landing. When he learned about the memorial Howard Chen 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!
THE SHIPYARD
A NEW LANDSCAPED SHIPYARD IN ZUHAI
In 2008, Selene Yachts opened another modern shipyard in Zhuhai near Macau. 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.
DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PEARL RIVER
Initially, Selene Yachts was based in Taiwan, with a shipyard in Dongguan, China. Dongguan is known for its high-end furniture industry. As a result, many of the materials that Selene Yachts has used to create the luxurious interiors of their yachts were readily available. High quality woods and veneers, fabrics, granite, and glass were all easy to find locally. The Dongguan shipyard opened in 1998 and the first yacht was delivered to the United States in 1999.
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.
Over the past 20 years, the company has built over 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 Selene Yachts began moving all of their molds, tooling and some of the staff to Zhuhai. The new Artemis line is now built in Zhuhai.
SELENE CAN BUILD UP TO 100 YACHTS PER YEAR
Selene Yachts Zhuhai is one of the best equipped and largest scale shipyards building FRP yachts in the world. The Zhuhai shipyard has the capacity to build up to a hundred yachts per year!
Howard Chen is intimately involved with every project and likes nothing better than coming up with new ideas. If you decide to buy a new Artemis yacht you can be sure that you will get very personal attention from the Artemis people…
There are close to 500 Selene and Artemis people and they are responsible for design, engineering, interior decoration, upholstery, carpentry, fiberglass tooling, painting, stainless-steel fabrication, procurement, electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems, electronics from a simple chart-plotter to a super-yacht glass-bridge… With several designers, engineers, naval architects and production line-managers, the Selene and Artemis people can graciously and enthusiastically take up the challenges of any yacht from 36 to 108 feet, and more. The Selene people can take it from the drawing board to the launching pad. Like Howard Chen, the Selene and Artemis people are an “Inspired Team of Dream Builders”.
Howard
CEO
Howard Chen has a Bachelors degree of Naval Architecture in Taiwan. Manager of several shipyards in Taiwan for twelve years, he established in 1998 his own boatyard in Dongguan. Since then Howard’s creativity has had no limits with trawlers, exploration vessels, power catamarans and super-yachts…
Candy
Project Manager
Candy joined Selene Yachts ten years ago. She is the head of the Project Management Department. She follows-up the whole production and maintains a special connection with the owners. If you ask her how many yachts she has launched, she will modestly reply « I don’t remember, perhaps 400… »
Yang
Factory Manager
Master Yang has thirty years of boat building experience, including seven years with Little Harbour Yacht in Taiwan under the command of Bruce Livingston, the former general manager of Grand Banks, and with the legendary 1974 America’s Cup winner, Ted Hood.
Sebastien
International Sales Department
Captain Sebastien is a passionate yachtman with two circumnavigations on his logbook. He runs in Krabi, Thailand, our International Sales Division and our Selene and Artemis team of professionals and technicians for the Southeast Asian Fleet. He also offers after sale services to Selene and Artemis owners.