Aquador logo, captured from their site
Aquador is another Motor Yacht builder company, from Finland. They offer four types of [...]
Buying
Yet more yacht manufacturer lists
In a previous post, I have compiled a list from the prestigious site yachtworld.com, a site managed by a multinational corporation, and one of the best represented on the internet, in the business. The same corporation owns Boats.com maybe the most connected and logical name for a domain in this branch. Anyway, the research one made there, is dynamic, is always changing, because new names appear overnight and the lists are different on any new search. Unfortunately, sometimes, this is not very good for sellers, they have to be lucky to be contacted after one boat search, otherwise their listing could be lost in a "sea" of new listings, and so on. Anyway, if you are smart, you are not selling your boat or any boat, waiting to be "researched" … [Read More...]
Motor Yachts
Doral from Canada
I thing it's time to present another motor yacht builder, and we'll go to our Canadian friends from Doral and check a little the market there :). Doral is a company born officially in 1972. In 1989, the company moves to Grand-Mère by joining forces with Thundercraft and Canot Cadorette. They offer a few motor yacht models, grouped in Sport Yachts, Express Cruisers and Elite Series. Let's see together what all this means, :). They say Doral pays microscopic attention to details. It looks good and modern, that's obvious, and I'll have nothing to say until I see some selling prices. … [Read More...]
Sailing Yachts
Secrets
Customer Care
Happy New Year, dear yachtsmen, dear readers! Before continuing with more yacht brands, they are more than one hundred, I chose as my first post this year, another "chapter" for brokers, related to customer care. In a previous article, I've said something about assessing the virtual customer from the beginning. I've read advertisements saying that a certain broker offers lodging and leisure to any customer ready to accept his offers. Such a guy overplays. Rich, very rich people aren't looking to this kind of "lodging". I knew a guy once, who built a sort of a pension on his inherited land near the sea, and pushed a few more dollars by renting it's four apartments to foreign tourists by day, in the Mediterranean season, which maybe … [Read More...]
Economics
Pricing in a Marina
I just found this table for the pricing method of some Turkish Marina, which may be a custom there, but one have to check first. For a calculation in advance, it is good to anticipate. To calculate your price, multiply your boat LOA with your beam to get square meters, then find the column corresponding to this size. As you see there are sizes between 24 - 59.99 m², 60 – 119.99 m², 120 – 179.99 m² and 180 m² and more, fact that makes four area columns. The time period is calculated in days, and as you see, the smallest factor is for a whole year. Find the multiplication factor for the number of days you plan to stay. Then, multiply this factor with the boat area you found in m² and after that, multiply it with the number of days … [Read More...]
Tips
Major Changes
I have discovered that when I transferred this blog from my former blogspot, wordpress took it all by the coma and letter. Maybe you know, that blogspot is a very unreliable platform, now acquired by Google, who may or may not improve it. All in all, my posts came here with their original fonts and settings, and now, as I have all the time in the world, I have to clean their mess. Actually I don't have that time, but I'll scratch for it, a few minutes per day :). Tip: A major one, actually. Change on Wordpress on your own domain now! You still have the time. Who knows what comes next? On Blogspot, or Blogger, whatever, you may publish and rant as long as you are "quiet" and "original". Somehow, if you want to make some money … [Read More...]
Story
The Broker Who Went broke
Looking through some important yachting sites, related to brokerage, brokers, companies and almost everything related to yachts in general, I discovered with great sadness that the company of which co-founder I was, disappeared altogether from the market. It was expected, only I wouldn't ever thought it was going to happen so soon. A few months ago, still, the remaining guys were paying top dollar advertising around, thing I haven't advised at the time I was still in charge. It was hard to manage, and I'm gonna tell you why, on the next lines, here. I was in a zone with a tremendously beautiful climate. Mediterranean covered by low mountains, oranges with olive trees and a lot of other fruits considered exotic even a few hundred … [Read More...]
