Dynamiq disrupting with ‘top technology for great price’

Dynamiq is set to launch its new GTT 165 this summer.
He likens it to trying to win English football’s Premier League. You need a blend of top players from a host of nations to excel. That’s just how Igor Dobroserdov of Dynamiq sees yacht building.
The boutique brand has its production base in Turkey, with naval architecture from the Netherlands and top designers from the UK, Italy and the US. Sub-contractors from a host of countries add to the melting pot.
“If you want to play on a global scale, you need a worldwide team,” Dobroserdov tells us. “It’s about putting all the correct puzzle pieces together.
“Even though we’re building in Turkey, we’re not a Turkish shipyard, in terms of mentality, in terms of approach, in terms of material selection, in terms of material treatment. We know what it’s like to deliver these north European-level vessels. And this is what we’re trying to achieve.”
Dynamiq was founded by Igor’s father Sergei Dobroserdov, a former lawyer, yacht broker and new-build supervisor, in Massa, Tuscany in 2014. But it moved several years ago to Antalya in southern Turkey to avoid spiralling costs and to take advantage of the free trade zone with its favourable tax regime.
“It’s top technology for a great price,” says Igor Dobroserdov.
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Dynamiq built the 41m Stefania in Italy in 2019.
Strategic niche
The first yacht to come out of its Turkish facility will be a 50m Gran Turismo Transatlantic 165, a “very sporty, very spaceship-looking yacht for a modern-minded owner” this summer. Dobroserdov says it will be a “statement in terms of quality, in terms of timeliness, the fact that we can actually build a yacht to this specification, to this budget”.
The yard also has a 52m in build, both for German clients. “It’s hard to avoid the stereotypes, but they see the efficiency, they see the stats and they’re like, ‘OK, this makes sense to me’,” he says.
Dynamiq built its first yacht in Italy in 2017, a 39m with interiors by Bannenberg & Rowell Design, and followed it up with a 39m in collaboration with Porsche Design in 2019 and the 41m Stefania in 2021.
“Our biggest challenge is that we’re a boutique shipyard with only a couple of boats out there and the owners don’t want to sell,” says Dobroserdov, referencing the lack of visibility in brokerage. “Our German client with the Porsche yacht came to visit us recently. I thought he was thinking of an upgrade, but he just came to tell us how much he loves the yacht, which is obviously great, but it doesn’t help the business.”
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Dynamiq aims to combine the best of the local Turkish workforce with “European minded” sub-contractors, project managers and top-tier management to ensure quality remains high and timelines are met.
“Everyone’s buying the same engines, the same stabilisers – where you can really start saving is the carpentry hours, the welding hours. This is why Turkey makes sense in the long term,” he says.
“We picked a very strategic niche from 30-65m as we believe this makes the most sense. We aim to be building, at most, five boats at a time. This is just to maintain the control and to make sure that we build custom yachts to the top level.”

Igor Dobroserdov is business development consultant at Dynamiq.
Fully transparent
Dynamiq’s mantra is “smart yachts for smart owners”, a notion Dobroserdov insists is “not a gimmick”. “To us, it means we’re building smart yachts for people who value their time, who value their money, who want the best solutions,” he adds. “It’s for a very niche part of our already niche market.”
One innovation is an online configurator which lets prospective owners customise their yacht, including paint, fittings, interiors and extra features such as helipads, and see the pricing and delivery schedule in real time.
Two of Dynamiq’s clients made their first approaches though the configurator before following up through their broker, according to Dobroserdov.
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“For us the key thing is transparency,” he says. “It’s a cool way to get in touch and you don’t have to go to a bunch of dinners before they give you a final price. Is it a huge game changer? I don’t know. But it’s a business where a lot of people end up feeling a lot of disappointment and we want to minimise this by being fully transparent.
“Of course, there’s still some guys who want to spend the time and do the dinners. For them, the whole thing is an experience. In our experience, people are super busy, they don’t want to waste time.
“Again, we’re not looking for the entire market. We believe that in an oversaturated world such as yachting you need to be properly positioned to make sense to your clients.”
Super confident
Sergei Dobroserdov began as a commercial maritime lawyer in Russia but increasingly found himself involved in superyacht deals for connections. He moved the family to Monaco and set up his own brokerage and new-build consultancy, including overseeing several Heesen yachts and managing the family boat of the yard founder. Eventually Dobroserdov senior launched his own shipyard in 2014, but Sergei is now the “spiritual director” of Dynamiq and boss of the Monaco-based Dobroserdov Design, with wife Maria taking the reins as director of the yard.
Igor accepts Dynamiq is playing the “long game” and says it is about “very slow, controlled growth”.
“We don’t say we’re the best, but we do say that in every single component, we have at least a Heesen-level spec,” he adds. “This is something we can even put in signature in the contract. So we’re super confident.”
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