POWERING UP
Cockwells expansion over the past decade or so has been truly remarkable. Having employed around a dozen people in 2010, the company now has more than 100 on its payroll (including 15 apprentices and trainees), is operating on three different sites, and has four distinct and established product groups: Duchy motor launches, Hardy motor yachts, superyacht tenders and general refit work.
It was in 1996 that Dave Cockwell started up in business in Bristol before moving to Cornwall four years later to rent a shed in South West Shipyard between Falmouth and Penryn. In
