About
Industry partners.
The professional frameworks and third-party relationships the firm operates through. Distinct from the geographic network: these are the broker associations, flag-state registries, class societies, surveyors, insurers, and yacht-management firms that underpin every brief.
Broker associations and registries
The professional frameworks.
Every charter, sale, and owner-services brief runs through an established professional framework. The associations and registries below are the principal frames of reference the firm operates within.
Mediterranean Yacht Brokers Association (MYBA)
The broker community’s settled contract framework for European charter and a significant share of cross-border sales. The firm operates standard charter engagements under the MYBA framework: payment schedules, cancellation provisions, APA convention.
International Yacht Brokers Association (IYBA)
The US-based broker association whose framework applies in Caribbean and US-flag operations. Used for Americas and US-east-coast yacht transactions.
Lloyd’s Register and the major class societies
For technical surveys, classification, and the periodic inspections the yacht is required to undergo. The firm interfaces with class-society surveyors on the buyer’s side during acquisitions and on the owner’s side during operating-year maintenance.
Flag-state registries
Operating relationships with the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry, Marshall Islands Registry, Malta Flag, Red Ensign group, and the BVI registry: for yacht registration, transfer, and ongoing compliance work.
Professional partners
Specialist relationships, by discipline.
Yacht-specialist insurance brokers
Hull, machinery, P&I, and charter-specific liability cover arranged through established yacht insurance specialists. Coverage is structured per yacht and per engagement, not bundled.
Marine surveyors
Independent surveyors in each major cruising area: Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Gulf: for pre-purchase surveys, mid-charter technical inspections, and the post-refit condition assessments.
Naval-architecture studios
Reference relationships with the principal naval-architecture studios (Espen Øino, Tim Heywood, Nuvolari Lenard, Reymond Langton, Andrew Winch, Lazzarini Pickering) for new-build advisory and major-refit projects.
Yacht management firms
Established management-company relationships in Antibes, Monaco, Palma, Athens, Fort Lauderdale, and Dubai. For technical and crewing operations on yachts under the firm’s charter and sales advisory engagements.
Family-office and private-bank counterparts
Working relationships with family-office and private-bank yacht teams who structure ownership, financing, and operational governance on the principal’s behalf.
Operating conventions
The conventions we work to.
Across every engagement, the firm operates to a settled set of professional conventions: the frameworks below shape the contract, the survey, and the regulatory interface.
- Standard MYBA contract framework for European charter, with the established APA and gratuity conventions.
- IYBA contract framework for Caribbean and US-flag charter.
- Lloyd’s Register or RINA classification for technical and class-society surveys.
- Flag-state engagement through Cayman, Marshall Islands, Malta, BVI, or other suited registries.
- Direct family-office and private-bank engagement on owner-side structuring, with appropriate confidentiality.
Plan
A private advisor on the framework.
For questions on the contract framework, the flag-state choice, or the survey process, start the conversation directly.