Aluminium-hulled RIBs, from tender to patrol boat.

Since the brand began in 2011, Highfield has delivered around 54,000 boats and become the world's number one in the RIB tender sector, with dealers and distributors in thirty-eight countries — the top choice worldwide for families, yacht clubs and international mariners alike. The line starts at a 2.4-metre tender and runs the whole way to heavy-duty RIBs at home on any ocean.

Their rigid hulls are powder-coated aluminium, and the design traces back to the Australian Swift Boats line — boats developed for the conditions along the Great Barrier Reef and known for surviving them. That is where the durability argument on this page comes from; it is not a marketing line, it is a hull.

Production is in Weihai, China, in a purpose-built facility under European management: 10,000 square metres, 150 staff, and the current generation of tooling.