This blog is dedicated to yacht owners, actual or future ones, and sea lovers in general. If yacht brokers are part of this, it's a pure coincidence. As a future yacht owner, I think that you can skip working with a broker, especially if you buy a new yacht. I have recently read an article of the "requirements" to be a yacht broker, in case you want to be one if you love yachts, can't afford to buy one and want to work in the marine industry. It wasn't very relevant, because it was superficially … [Read more...]
Basic Yacht Formalities in Turkey
When a foreign yacht arrives in Turkey, better said, in a Turkish Marina, the owner or the captain should obtain a transit log and complete the check-in formalities. The transit log can be purchased at any Marina’s reception. The check-in formalities can be done by the owner, the captain or by a professional agent, meaning that he must be accredited somehow by an authority. In Turkey everybody tends to act like an agent, because they have the trade in their blood. [source] In the … [Read more...]
Publishing Tips
If you are a broker and you want to enlarge your portfolio, and you don't have enough pictures to show on your site, you may appeal to the original site of the brand you're selling. But there might be a problem with that. The great majority of brand yacht name manufacturers has the samples uploaded in Flash, which is making things difficult for you. I know from experience that the petty brokers have minimum experience with site design, and with stealing pictures as well. In certain countries, … [Read more...]
New beginning
I like it a lot here, on this new domain, the theme I'm having, allowing me not only to use my favorite font, but for the sake of authenticity, to let the older posts transferred from blogspot, to look exactly the same, only better, :) I'll have a schedule, which I'll publish soon, and of course I'm going to heavily promote this blog, as much as I can, having an agenda as well. I'll let you know also who am I admiring, I'll give you all the tips I know in the matter, and I'll pretend very … [Read more...]
Back Again (insider tips)
I have to expose now some "secrets" about assessing brokers and boat owners, when approaching them to buy your first boat. Doesn't matter at this stage if you buy a motor boat or a sailing one. Let's presume you don't have the minimum budget for a brand boat, like the samples exposed in my previous posts. They can be "custom" made, definitely no name brands, like the one that I'm going to show you here. This is the boat, as real as it could be. Seeing the name is no help in a better … [Read more...]