Talking to Northrop and Johnson’s Annie Avery at the Fort Lauderdale Show this morning, I find that she and Alex Busher of Edmiston & Company have signed Perini Navi’s 53m superyacht ketch Independence as a joint central agency for sale.
Delivered in April 1998 and refitted in 2001, she’s had a continous programme of maintenance and ... Read more

Miriam Cain of Camper & Nicholsons tells me that Charles Ehrardt in Antibes has just seen a major reduction in the price of his central agency, Heesen’s 39.8m superyacht Jangada.
Delivered by the Dutch yard in 2001, she’s a full displacement yacht with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, powered by twin 850hp Caterpillar engines. Jangada accommodates eight ... Read more

For my history lesson today I learned that the 71.7m classic superyacht Haida G, currently listed for sale by Peter Hurzeler of Ocean Independence, has now celebrated 80 years of giving pleasure and entertainment to generations of yachtsmen.
Formerly known under a number of names, the most recent being Rosenkavalier, she was delivered as Haida in 1929 ... Read more

I contacted Eric Trupheme in the Antibes office of Ocean Independence to check if it really is true that the owner of Thackwray’s 28.04m sailing megayacht Shere Khan has cut the price by as much as a third and Eric confirms that it’s true, with the owner still willing to entertain offers.
Delivered by the New ... Read more

Talking to Fergus Torrance of Titan, Hyde & Torrance, he tells me that the asking price of his refit project, Picchiotti’s 38.7m superyacht Tamarindo has been cut from €1.695 million to €995,000.
This new price will also be the ‘offers over’ figure for a sealed bid auction on November 27th 2009. Tamarindo is in the early ... Read more

An email from Dirk Johnson at Merle Wood & Associates arrives to say that he’s signed the central agency for sale of Palmer Johnson’s 24.93m superyacht ketch Irishman.
Built in 1985 to a design by John G. Alden, she was refitted in 2003 and 2008 and accommodates six guests in a full beam master and two ... Read more

More news from Jeroen Minnema at Ocean Independence as he tells me of a €200,000 cut in the price of Falcon’s 26m megayacht Baron B.
A joint central with Jeroen’s brother at Fraser Yachts, the megayacht was delivered in 2000 and, having proved to be a popular charter yacht, she was refitted and upgraded in 2008/2009. ... Read more

A call to Robert McKeage at International Yacht Collection confirms the news that he and Kevin Merrigan of Northrop and Johnson, joint central agents for sale of the 47.5m superyacht MITseaAH, are offering a $500,000 bonus to any broker who closes on her before November 20th 2009.
Built by the UK’s Pendennis yard in 2004, MITseaAH ... Read more

News in today from Kevin Callahan of Moran Yacht & Ship that the price of Christensen’s 47.2m superyacht Silver Lining has been cut.
Delivered in 1997 she’s a one-owner superyacht with a Glade Johnson interior accommodating up to 11 guests in a master, two doubles and a twin. Also helicopter capable, Silver Lining is currently located at the ... Read more

Thom Conboy of International Yacht Collection writes in to say that his co-central agency for sale with Chany Sabates, Trinity’s 45.7m superyacht Carpe Diem, has had a significant price reduction.
Built to ABS class in 2002 and refitted in 2006, this all-aluminium superyacht has a Claudette Bonville interior and,  MCA compliant, sleeps 10 guests in a ... Read more