Safety is our cardinal directive. No one can control maritime weather. But before you ever set foot on your Ocean Alexander deck, we've already addressed the demands of extreme weather for you. It is our guiding principle that nothing is more important than your safety, and the safety of people who've entrusted their lives to you.

Safety Engineering and Tank Testing

Unlike other fine yacht makers, we design models and test them via computer simulation, but nothing can verify their performance and handling like laboratory controlled testing. It's an expensive process, and we're one of the few yacht builders that have insisted on it for decades.
Every new Ocean Alexander model undergoes rigorous tank testing. "When we test, we expect our hulls to run safely at Sea State V with 8-foot waves. We want no water going up on deck," explains Ed Monk, Jr. Even though our owners may never experience a scenario as severe as this, we want to ensure the safety of your crew and boat.

In one of the world's most sophisticated labs, we subject our models to scientifically controlled conditions, including various wave frequencies, strengths and directions. We also get a genuine look at how much power you'll need for optimal performance and how well our boats control spray or slamming. We can test a range of displacements and trims for each hull mould so that our designers can refine your hull with optimal performance details.

Testing Facilities

The state-of-the-art facility we use is a dedicated government laboratory with sensing gear, wave generation equipment, motion detectors and camera and video recording equipment that captures every angle and movement of the boat. Our facility gives us the closest possible match to real sea conditions - within a two- to three percent variation. The quality of our tests is so high they actually surpass sea trials, which can be unreliable in comparison. And there is no comparison between our testing and merely dragging a mock-up behind a tender (as many of our competitors do when they conduct a model test).

Our exhaustive tank testing requires weeks of laborious work and refinement. In the end, what you'll own is an Ocean Alexander hull designed by Ed Monk, Jr. that will stand up to actual offshore conditions.

Oceangoing Ability

Some yachts may spend more time in the slip than on the sea, but there are adventurers among us. Ocean Alexander backs up the beauty of its yachts with the design heritage of Ed Monk, who earned a devoted following from people who insisted on routinely navigating some of the most treacherous Pacific waters. In fact, many of them live on their boats. Although we don't call our boats trans-oceanic, the quality of their engineering and the superiority of their materials make them as capable as any vessel of making a long voyage.