Jeanneau is a French boatyard in Les Herbiers, in the Vendée département, which has produced yachts since 1957.

It was founded by Henri Jeanneau, a hardware store owner, who began by producing power boats.

He quickly moved to producing boats from fiberglass and by 1960 his motorboats, including the Jeanneau Sea-bird, were made from this new material, followed by the first sailboats in 1964.

In 1990 there was a joint venture with Italian Ferretti Craft to build a series of yachts, but the project did not last long.

[1][2] The Jeanneau Advanced Technologies division was set up to build custom projects, such as the trimarans for the film Waterworld and some Americas Cup designs.