Your refit team now covers both sides of the Atlantic
The team that crosses with your boat
International Marine Management acquired Atlantic Refit Center in La Rochelle for an undisclosed sum and took over on 1 June 2026, as reported by SuperyachtNews, BOAT International and SuperYacht Times. IMM already runs bases in Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Guadeloupe and Grenada, carries about 130 in-house staff and bills itself as the Caribbean's largest refit house. ARC has worked France's Atlantic coast for two decades. CEO Norina Edelman put it plainly: 'Returning to Europe is a defining step for IMM.'
For an owner who splits the year between the islands and the Mediterranean, that reach changes the calculus of a refit. With one operator on both coasts, the same project manager and warranty follow the boat across the ocean rather than restarting with a yard that has never seen her. That handover, more than any single dock, is what the deal puts on the table.
A berth for the biggest hulls, off the Med
ARC brings two dry docks of 176 and 107 metres, a 250-ton travel lift, cranes to 150 tons, 300 metres of afloat repair quay and 2,000 square metres of hard standing, with 11 metres of draft into the port. Together they let the yard dock and refit vessels up to 150 metres in length.
The 176-metre dock and the 150-metre ceiling put La Rochelle among the short list of yards that can take the very largest yachts, the size band where slots are hardest to win. For an owner above 90 metres it is one more serious berth to bid for, and it sits on a coast the summer crowds never reach.
A stop you fold into the crossing
La Rochelle sits on France's Atlantic coast, on the natural track between the Caribbean and Mediterranean seasons. Founder and COO Fabrice Maitre began his career in France and worked on the 92-metre Tatoosh refit in La Rochelle in 2007. With this deal, IMM runs yards on both sides of the Atlantic.
For an owner moving between seasons, a refit on the Atlantic seaboard folds into the delivery leg instead of eating Mediterranean time. And because one house now sits in the Caribbean and in France, the boat is handed between two yards that answer to the same standard rather than starting cold. That handover, not the dock size, is what IMM is really selling.