This morning, Managing Director of CSO Yachts, Claude Niek, confirms that the company are brokers for 37.93 metre Sensei and the newly-launched, semi-displacement, Lady Belmor.
Launched in 1991, Sensei – built by Mitsubishi – underwent a complete refit in 2007. The yacht accommodates ten guests in three double cabins and two twin cabins and has a ... Read more

The 78m Princess Mariana is the centrepiece of the Fraser Yachts display at next month’s Monaco Yacht Show especially in view of the news, announced in this column, of her hefty €27 million price cut to €98 million. Also on show will be the 45m Aero Toy Store, 38m Maisha and 35m My Issue II.
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Finally, after writing this column daily since January 2009, I’m being allowed to have a week’s holiday starting Monday August 31. But for all of you who need your daily brokerage news fix, Oliver Dewar will be taking over for the week. A very experienced yachtsman and highly regarded journalist, Oliver is a regular contributor to the ... Read more

Now here’s a turn up for the books as Jane Hardy of Peter Insull’s Yacht Marketing emails me to say that , as she nears completion at Trinity Yachts the 49.07m superyacht Blind Date II has a new, higher asking price. Apparently “This is to reflect her status as a brand new yacht just out ... Read more

Candice Rossi of Fraser Yachts tells me that Penny Parrot in the Fort Lauderdale has sold a 73.3m new construction project from Perini Navi’s Vitruvius series to a longstanding client. The largest in the range, her diesel electric propulsion with twin Azimuth stern pods will reach a top speed of 16.5 knots.
Being built to a Philippe Briand ... Read more

Talking to Thom Conboy at International Yacht Collection, I discover that his new central agency for sale, Heesen’s 43m At Last, has just come out of an extremely thorough 27 month refit.  Thom says that her current owner had the yacht taken back to bare metal and replaced the interior along with machinery, plumbing and electrical ... Read more

There’s another hefty price reduction from Fraser Yachts as Rob Newton and Jose Arana Jr in Fort Lauderdale send news of a cut in the price of the 35m megayacht Moon Goddess. Built by Danish Yachts in 2006 to an Espen Øeino design, her fast planing hull gives her a cruising speed of 44 knots ... Read more

David East of David East Yachting tells me that he’s now listing for sale the classic Sparkman & Stephens 27m alloy ketch Sceptre, built by Camper & Nicholsons. David sold her to the present owner as Gitana and she’s benefited from a meticulous refit and upgrade. Currently in the USA, she’ll overwinter in the Caribbean ... Read more

I call Bill Sanderson of Camper & Nicholsons to congratulate him on the sale of his central agency, Cheoy Lee’s 31.4 Blue Sky, but he’s out with a client, however I do discover that the buying broker was Clardy Schwarz of Voyage Charters.
A little more on the boat: built in 2002 to a Frank Mulder ... Read more

I call Debbie Beere of dbeere Yachts to confirm that she’s now offering Alfamarine’s 42.5m Lady Feryal for sale and indeed this is the case. Delivered in 2003 by Italy’s Cantieri di Fiumicino yard, Lady Feryal was one of the first all-aluminium superyachts to be built to MCA compliance and is also ABS classed. Benefitting ... Read more