Insights
Perspective on new builds, charter, and the evolving market
For owners commissioning new builds, charter clients, and the builders who serve them
Charter Before You Build
A week aboard as a prototype test: the spaces, the crew at work, and the evidence a build brief needs.
New-Build Yacht Evaluation
Platform over brand name, the specification as a commercial document, and the team around the owner.
Build Slots and Order Books
What sits behind a delivery date: slot type, design-freeze points, and the customization still open.
Inside a Charter Week
Base fee, APA, taxes, and gratuity: the cash flow behind the published weekly rate.
The Charter Calendar
Seasonal migration, peak weeks, weather-led routing, and the shoulder weeks clients underrate.
New-Build Due Diligence
Counterparty, installments, refund guarantees, and acceptance criteria written while leverage is highest.
Limited-Production Yacht Access
Real scarcity versus sales language, and the clarity that earns senior time at selective yards.
The Thresholds That Shape a Yacht
24 meters, 500 GT, twelve passengers, 3,000 GT: the lines that decide how a yacht is built and run.
Flag State & Jurisdiction
What the flag controls, class versus flag, commercial coding, and the entity behind the yacht.
U.S. Owners, Foreign Flags
Flag, customs, importation, charter law, and state tax: separate questions, kept deliberately separate.
Building for Charter Use
Commercial coding at the drawing stage, a useful cabin mix, and revenue modeled against the owner's calendar.
Ownership Cost Planning
A bottom-up operating model: crew, fuel, survey cycles, and berthing instead of a percentage rule.
Insurance Coverage Planning
From the builder's-risk handover to navigation warranties and sub-limits: a program built for the claim.
Resale & Exit Planning
Platform liquidity, records that remove buyer uncertainty, and timing against the survey cycle.
U.S. Yacht Market Entry for Builders
Buyer risk questions answered, after-sales before the first delivery, and first owners as infrastructure.