Guillaume Roché
Yacht Builder in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Of French and Scottish descent, Guillaume was practically born on a sailboat. As an adolescent, he circumnavigated the globe with his family on a 45-foot steel ketch.
The spirit of the sea never left him.
A mechanical engineering graduate of The University of Massachusetts in Boston, he later studied naval architecture at the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology in Connecticut.
Guillaume was a luxury yacht captain for five years on charter and private yachts before putting his experience toward yacht construction.
For the last 23 years, he has built and managed the construction of numerous luxury yachts (power and sail) ranging from 72 to 220 feet in shipyards in the United States, Europe and Turkey.
He is the co-founder of the highly regarded shipyard Sunrise Yachts.