Howard Chen graduated from National Cheng Kuan University with a Bachelors Degree in Naval Architecture and a Master’s degree of Architecture from Tung Hai University in Taiwan. His career reflects a passion for architecture and boat building. He was a manager of several shipyards in Taiwan for twelve years, before he established in 1998 his own firm Jet-Tern Marine in Dongguan, China. Five years later he built the new Jet-Tern Marine shipyard in Zhuhai, near Macao. Since then Howard’s creativity has had no limits with trawlers, exploration vessels, power catamarans and super-yachts…
As Bill Parlatore of the famous American magazine PassageMaker writes « Howard Chen has no problem cutting up a mold and making a new one that modifies the hull shape if it makes the boat a better, safer or more comfortable sea boat. » Very few yachts builders, if any, have that audacity and flexibility! Howard Chen can best be defined as a « Dream Builder », who was inspired by the famous naval architect, Ted Hood.
