Inside SYCS Palma workshops

Palma de Mallorca is where the Mediterranean superyacht circuit converges every season, and it is where SYCS has placed one of its two operating bases. From our offices on Contramuelle Mollet, in the heart of the port, the team works within easy reach of the island's refit yards, the yachts they serve, and the captains and project managers who run them.

The Palma base is built on a simple principle: keep every critical capability in-house. Engineering, design and technical work all stay within the SYCS team, ensuring quality control, intellectual continuity from first sketch to final installation, and a rapid response to custom requests — including small-scale production runs and rapid prototyping, the kind of work a refit schedule rarely leaves time to outsource.

That principle extends to the workshop floor. SYCS specifically operates three workshops in Palma (in addition to the one in Cartagena and the other in Portugal), equipped with a technology park that goes well beyond what a boutique supplier usually brings to the job: 5-axis CNC machining, 4+1-axis CNC with lathe and 3-axis CNC; a plotter for fabrics, rubber and gaskets; laser cutting and engraving; an oven for metals and acrylics; and a range of 3D laser scanning and 3D printing machines. On the digital side, the team works in 3D modeling and 2D drafting, with CATIA-based engineering led by co-founder Raúl Gonzalo.

The workflow follows the part. A component can be laser-scanned on board, modeled and engineered at the office, prototyped through 3D printing, then machined and finished in the workshop before returning to the yacht for installation. It is a closed loop that shortens lead times and keeps every tolerance under the same team's control.

For larger components, such as CNC molding and metal fabrication, SYCS works with a trusted pool of external suppliers, which lets it take on projects of any scale without losing the agility of a boutique operation. In Mallorca, its partners include STP Palma and Astilleros de Mallorca among many others.

The result is a team of naval architects, structural engineers and designers who are never far from the vessel, the yard or the client. When timing, precision and responsiveness define the quality of a refit or a new-build delivery, being on site in Palma is not a logistical detail: it is part of the product.