A call to Charles Ehrardt in the Antibes office of Camper & Nicholsons brings the welcome news that at noon today he completed on the sale of CBI Navi’s 39.69m megayacht Commitment with Enrico Mortola of Mortola Yacht & Ship acting for the buyer.
Built in 1989 and refitted in 2007, she sleeps 10 guests in a full ... Read more

News now in that The Sacks Group Yachting Professionals(TSGYP) has formed a “strategic marketing alliance” with IMA Yachts. Under the terms of the alliance TSGYP and IMA are now able to cross-market their non competing services and specialities to each other’s existing clients.
The new relationship will also allow both firms to grow by offering an expanded ... Read more

Vesa Kaukonen of the eponymous Kaukonen & Kaukonen tells me that he’s signed the central agency for the 38m megayacht Callista, better known as the former Inca Rose.
Built by Ocean Pacifico Services in 2000 she was refitted in 2008/2009 and is Lloyds classed and MCA compliant. Callista sleeps 10 guests in a master, three doubles ... Read more

The 19th Monaco Yacht Show opened almost exactly 53 weeks after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008, precipitating a global financial crisis and plunging the superyacht brokerage market into a steep decline. Offers made at last year’s show evaporated into thin air and, finally, the bubble in prices of second-hand yachts burst.
Now ... Read more

There’s now no doubt about it – the industry’s definitely on the upturn as Peter Croke of Merle Wood & Associates confirms to me that the 64.5m Amels superyacht My Shanti – a central agency he shares with Merle Wood – closed today. Peter also says that he and Merle acted for both seller and ... Read more

Talking to Frank Grzeszczak at International Yacht Collection, he tells me that he and Chany Sabates have just closed on a deal to sell their co-central agency, Trinity’s 37.8m Wheels, in the fifth sale to be reported in this column today.
Built in 2002 to ABS class, this all-aluminium superyacht has a Dee Robinson interior sleeping ... Read more

Patrick Coote of Fraser Yachts writes in to say that David Legrand acted for the buyer in the sale of the 27m Leopard Caramia, which closed today. However, when I call David to congratulate him, I discover that he’s with a client, but I do learn that she was a central agency for sale at ... Read more

Hearing that Concorde Yachts’ 40m sailing superyacht Mirabella has been sold, I call Simon Goldsworthy in the London office of Camper & Nicholsons International and he confirms that he acted for the buyer while Georges Bourgoignie in the Fort Lauderdale office represented the vendor.
Built in 1991 and refitted in 2005, she’s been a charter yacht ... Read more

A quick call to Mark Elliott at International Yacht Collection confirms that he and Chany Sabates have signed the sales central agency for Westport’s 34m Imagine.
Delivered at the end of December 2007, this is the first time she’s been offered for sale and is apparently ‘in pristine condition.’ Sleeping eight guests in four staterooms, her ... Read more

Earlier this month I reported that Kent Chamberlain of Chamberlain Yachts represented the buyer in the sale of Broward’s 32m Freedom with International Yacht Collection; now he tells me that he closed on two more megayachts just last week.
On September 22nd he represented an American seller as he closed the deal on Millenium’s 2003 built 36m Les ... Read more