Southern Wind Shipyard was founded in 1991 by the Italian entrepreneur Willy Persico, the current Managing Director.

The headquarter where yachts are produced is in Cape Town, South Africa, in the industrial zone, a few kilometres from the International Airport and it spreads over a 17.000 sqm area, of which 12.000 sqm under roof.

Southern Wind is one of the very few shipyards which is able to carry out almost the whole construction in-house.