Vivian Chan of VP Yachts is quickly making a name for herself in the yachting industry.
VP Yachts has already sold multiple Sessa motor yachts since the company’s appointment in November 2020, but for Vivian, the circles she now finds herself mixing in seem a world away from her ongoing role as General Manager of Sun Hing Shipyard, founded by her father Chan Ki in 1981.
Vivian says it was her father’s hope that his children would work in yacht sales, rather than the repair and maintenance field he has specialised in since working at the Supercraft yard in Tsing Yi before founding Sun Hing Shipyard. Despite the family business, Vivian says she rarely spent any time on boats when she was young.
It was a family crisis that drew her back to the city to start working at Sun Hing Shipyard in 2011. During a trying time for the family, her uncle decided to start his own business, so the site and staff were split into two, with the shipyards remaining side by side today. “My dad felt the shipyard business doesn’t make a lot of money, so he never really encouraged my brothers or me to work here. He’d say, you’re better off going to a dealer like Simpson Marine. My dad would prefer his kids to be meeting the owners of boats rather than just fixing the boats.”in 2010, working as a broker for Asia’s largest yacht dealer for nine years before setting up Deepsea Marine HK.
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