Your Representatives
At Superyacht Partners, we offer bespoke, personalized representation to ensure your purchase experience is focussed on what is important to you. With well over 100 superyacht sales under our belt, our expertise and dedication are unmatched.
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What We Do
We provide comprehensive advice on every aspect of the yacht purchase process, ensuring you have all the information necessary to make an informed, educated, and calculated decision. Our extensive experience will guide you in establishing your goals, operational requirements, and cruising program. Then we can help you make the best choice from the market's most suitable yachts.
While we understand that buying a superyacht can be an emotional decision, we commit to equipping you with all relevant information to support your purchase. Our goal is to maintain a lifelong relationship with you by adding value and ensuring you make the right choice from the start.
Personalized Yacht Selections
Our brokers are dedicated to finding the best yacht for you, visiting numerous boats to ensure you are buying the top vessel of its type on the market. Whether you are looking to buy a mid-size motor yacht, a cruising sailing yacht, a superyacht, or build a new custom vessel, our experienced team has the contacts and knowledge to help you find the perfect vessel.
If you have an idea of what you are looking for, browse our carefully curated selections of yachts, featuring what we have already established are the best vessels in various categories.
Market Insight
Negotiating a fair price can be complex and requires skilled handling of strong personalities. With our 50+ years of cumulative experience, we are well-positioned to manage all aspects of negotiations, ensuring you understand the true market value before making any decision.
We delve deep into the yacht’s maintenance history and any required future works, which significantly impact its value. Our expertise ensures you are well-informed throughout the negotiation process.
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Due Diligence
Once the price is agreed upon, our team coordinates the necessary due diligence. We work with the world’s leading marine surveyors and specialist lawyers—professionals we know well and trust. We attend surveys on your behalf, ensuring detailed insight and authoritative commentary on the survey report.
Additionally, Superyacht Partners can assist in appointing the right captain, who will then build a capable crew, providing operational support or facilitating charter arrangements to offset running costs.
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Your Yachting Partner
We bring in the right suppliers to match the yacht, owner, and planned operation of the vessel, always taking a bespoke approach to ensure your best interests and expectations are met. At Superyacht Partners, we are committed to making your transition into yacht ownership seamless and easy, providing unparalleled support and guidance throughout your yachting journey.
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FAQs
How are legal and financial aspects handled during a yacht purchase?
Yacht purchases involve significant legal and financial considerations, including contracts, title transfer, registration, flagging and tax implications (like VAT). SuperYacht Partners have legal insight gained from a large volume of transactions and work alongside maritime lawyers and specialists to ensure these aspects are handled professionally and protect your interests.
What is the typical process for buying a yacht?
The process typically follows 9 specific stages:
- Initial consultation and defining requirements.
- Market research and yacht selection.
- Viewings.
- Making an offer (often via a Letter of Intent - LOI).
- Achieving a price agreement.
- Negotiation of the final sale agreement (e.g., MYBA Sale & Purchase Agreement)
- Sea-trial and surveys.
- Renegotiation / Acceptance.
- Completion of sale and transfer of ownership.
SYP will guide you through each stage.
What are the key considerations when buying a pre-owned yacht?
Key considerations include the yacht's condition (requiring surveys), maintenance history, operational costs, previous ownership, potential for refit or upgrades to meet your tastes, classification and flag, and overall market value. Also important is the operational capability of the yacht. Can it easily facilitate what you want to do on the water? How easy is it to maintain and operate the yacht? Is it a well designed operational platform? SYP can help you navigate these complexities.
How can SuperYacht Partners assist me in finding the right yacht?
SYP will take the time to understand your specific requirements, preferences, and budget. Where compromise is possible and where not. Leveraging their market knowledge and network, they will identify suitable on-market and off-market opportunities, provide objective advice, arrange viewings, and guide you through the selection process. SYP’s encyclopaedic knowledge of prior selling prices, levels of maintenance and investment by previous owners, and the vagaries of the different strengths and weaknesses of historical models of various shipyards maximises the chances of purchasing a great value vessel and minimises the chance of unexpected costs and issues during your ownership.
What is the first step I should take if I'm considering buying a yacht?
The first step is to define your priorities: How do you envision using the yacht? What size and type of yacht are you interested in? What is your budget? Where are you mostly going to be operating? Do you value high levels of service or privacy? How far do you want to go and how quickly do you want to get there?
Contacting an experienced broker like SuperYacht Partners early in the process can help you refine these needs and understand the market. What you want and what you need may not be the same thing. SYP can help you find clarity in an ocean of compromise.
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