Most buyers meet the two in the wrong order — the broker first, the sea last. They are shown a boat before they know how a boat behaves, what it costs to run in August, or what a good crew is actually worth.

We invert it. Almost everyone who buys through Y/V has already sailed with us. By the time ownership is on the table they have spent a week finding out how the vessel handles, where the standard slips on lesser boats, what the marina bill looks like and how much of the year they would realistically use her. That is due diligence you cannot do from a brochure, and it is why our conversations about ownership are short.

We are not brokers. We do not carry listings, we are not paid to move a particular hull, and we will tell you plainly when the answer is that you should keep chartering.

Fractional

A defined share of a single vessel, with allocated weeks and a management agreement covering everything else. The lowest entry point into real ownership, and the structure most first-time owners should start with.

Syndicate

Co-ownership with a small number of others, usually people who already know each other or who met aboard. More control than fractional, more responsibility, and a shareholders’ agreement that matters more than the boat.

Outright

You own her. We handle selection, survey, negotiation, registration, flag, crew placement and the first season, and we will happily argue you out of the wrong vessel.

Listing

You already own a yacht and she sits idle. Place her into the Y/V charter pool and she earns against her own running costs, with vetting, marketing, booking and standards handled here.

A week aboard the class of vessel you are considering, sailed as an owner rather than a guest: watches, anchoring, berthing, provisioning, the systems, the running costs and the maintenance conversation nobody has with you before the sale.

It is the cheapest possible way to find out that you want a catamaran and not a monohull, or that you want six weeks a year and not a boat at all. The fee is credited in full against a purchase completed through us within the same season.

See The Season

Emissions rules, marina requirements and charter-guest expectations are all moving in the same direction, and a vessel that cannot meet them loses value quietly and then suddenly. We advise on hybrid and electric propulsion, solar and battery capacity, hull efficiency, waste and grey water, and the compliance timetable that applies to your flag and cruising ground.

Done at the right refit, most of it costs little more than the work you were doing anyway. Done late, it costs a season.

We are not brokers

We hold no listings and take no commission from a yard or a seller. Where a broker is needed we bring one in and tell you who is paying them.

We say no

If the numbers do not work, or the boat is wrong for the use, or you would be better off chartering six weeks a year, that is what you will be told.

Nothing is published

Ownership conversations happen in confidence and stay there. No case studies, no names, no announcements.

This is not investment advice

A yacht is an asset that depreciates and costs money to hold. Charter income offsets running costs; it is not a yield. Take independent tax and legal advice before committing capital — and we will tell you to, every time.