Vision
To elevate the overall yachting experience — one galley at a time.
Brand Philosophy
Built right, from the outset.
Food is at the heart of every great experience. On a superyacht, where a single charter week can command over a million euros, the dining experience isn't an amenity — it's the centerpiece. It can define a holiday or derail it entirely. Yet a staggering number of galleys are built to domestic standards, designed by people who have never cooked professionally on a yacht. Equipped to cater for a family of four, then expected to service a guest list of 37. What family has 37 people?
The result is spaces that look nice on paper and fail in operation — poor flow, wrong equipment, inadequate storage, service routes that don't work. The mistakes are invisible until the yacht is in use. Then it's too late to turn back, and a costly refit is the only solution.
Superyacht Galley Designs was built on a straightforward belief: the galley should be designed by someone who has had to use one — at the highest level, under the hardest conditions. Not as an afterthought, but planned with the same rigor and long-term thinking applied to every other critical system on the yacht.
Unique Value Proposition
SGD is the only practice that brings professional yacht-chef experience to the galley design process — a gap that has existed in the industry for too long. Combined with a commitment to innovation and technology that the industry has been slow to adopt, SGD delivers galley spaces that perform beyond a layout.
Mission
To bring function and high performance to every yacht galley by placing decades of lived experience at the heart of the design process. The result is threefold: an elevated guest experience, a delayed need for costly refits, and frictionless flow for chefs and service teams.
Brennan: A Brief Bio
Chef insight, design impact.
Brennan Dates has cooked professionally since 1996, more than two decades of it as a head chef aboard the world's largest private yachts and some of the world's best charter yachts, before founding Superyacht Galley Designs.
Across those years at sea, he kept running into the same avoidable problems — galleys built without input from the people who'd actually run them, the same layout mistakes repeated build after build. That recurring frustration, and the realization that no one in the industry was addressing it at the design stage, is what led him to found Superyacht Galley Designs.
He has designed galleys for ten superyachts from Feadship, Lürssen, Nobiskrug, and Abeking & Rasmussen — including a 142 m flagship — and writes and speaks on galley design for Feadship's PILOT, SuperYacht Times, and The Triton.
His work focuses on new-build galley consulting: layout review, workflow, storage, equipment planning, chef and crew movement, technical coordination, and the details that determine whether a galley performs beautifully in real life.
When he's not in the galley or working on galleys, Brennan loves riding around the world on his motorcycle. Follow him here: @oliveoilandgasoline.