No. I hold no listings, represent no sellers, and take no payment from anyone but you. I am an independent adviser paid a flat fee by the buyer.

Buyer's Advocate · 40–75ft motor yachts

Buying a boat? Make sure someone in the room is on your side.

The broker earns on the sale. The surveyor checks the hull. Nobody is advising you on whether this is the right boat, at the right price, that you can actually afford to run. I will — and I've got no commission riding on your answer.

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Why me

I've been the buyer. Then I lived with the boat.

Ask anyone advising you on this purchase whether they've ever owned one of these boats themselves. Most brokers and consultants haven't — they've sold them, not lived with them. I owned and skippered motor yachts from 48 to 65 feet on this coast from 2014 to 2025. I've been the nervous buyer, and then I've lived with the consequences: the running costs, the surprises, the yards. I know which boats survey clean and still bleed money.

I work only for you, for a flat fee. Never a percentage. Never a success fee. The moment my pay depends on you buying, I stop being on your side — so it never will.

Gleaming black-hulled motor yacht at anchor in turquoise Mediterranean water — Every boat looks perfect at anchor. That's the problem.

What I do

From shortlist to keys — with your interests only.

Speccing a new buildThe options list, line by line: what genuinely changes life aboard and what just changes the invoice. Gyro versus fins for how you'll use her, generator and air-con sizing for Med summers, and what must be ordered from the factory because retrofitting costs triple. I specced my first Princess from the factory myself — and paid for the lessons.
Buying second-handYour shortlist pressure-tested against how you'll actually use the boat. Which extras genuinely add value — stabilisation, a well-sized genset, recent electronics — and which are worth nothing at resale. The real cost of ownership per candidate, so the asking price isn't the only number you're negotiating on.
The practical mazeMarinas and berth strategy (including the 18-metre trap that can cost €13,000 a year), registration and flag choices explained in plain English, and what everything on the spec sheet actually does. Practical guidance from an owner — not legal, tax or regulatory advice; where you need those, I help you brief the right specialists.

The options minefield

Speccing a boat? The options list is where the money hides.

A new-build options list runs to hundreds of thousands of euros, and the dealer has an incentive on every line. A brokerage boat's spec sheet tells you what the last owner bought — not whether it was worth it. I've paid for the useful, the useless and the actively annoying, so I can tell you which is which before you sign.

New build: what to tick

Which options genuinely change life aboard and which just change the invoice. Gyro versus fin stabilisation for how you'll actually use the boat — at anchor versus underway, and what each costs to run and maintain. Generator and air-con sizing for Med summers. The options that must be done at build because retrofitting costs triple — and the ones the dealer pushes that you'll never use.

Second-hand: what adds value

Which extras genuinely make a used boat worth paying more for — stabilisation, a well-sized genset, recent electronics, a hydraulic platform — and which are worth nothing at resale no matter what the listing implies. What a missing option will cost you to add later, so you can price it into the negotiation. What everything on the spec sheet actually does in practice.

Fees

Two ways to buy the help. Both start free.

Every engagement begins with a free 15-minute intro call — no charge, no obligation. From there, flat fees only: never a percentage, never a success fee.

New-Build Spec Session

from €250PER HOUR · TAILORED TO THE BUILD · VIDEO

Your options list reviewed line by line before you sign it. One hour covers most lists; complex builds extend by the hour, agreed up front.

What to tick, what to skip, what to defer
Stabiliser choice for your actual use
Factory-fit vs retrofit economics
7-day money-back guarantee

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Second-Hand Buying Support

Priced to fitSTAGE BY STAGE · STOP ANYTIME

Ongoing support through the search — shortlist to decision — priced per stage and agreed before each one. You never pay for help you haven't had.

Shortlist & extras review, boat by boat
Running-cost reality per candidate
Marinas, registration & flag choices
First session refunded if I add no value

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Why no success fee — read this before you compare

Some advisers charge a percentage of the purchase, or get paid only if you complete. Think about what that pays them to want. My fees are flat and per-stage precisely so that “don't buy this boat” — sometimes the most valuable advice you'll ever get — costs me nothing to say.

Questions buyers ask

Straight answers.

Why don't you charge a success fee?

Because the moment my pay depends on you buying, I stop being on your side. A fee contingent on completion gives your adviser a financial interest in the deal closing — the same conflict the broker already has. Flat and staged means my only incentive is your right decision, including walking away.

What if you tell me not to buy the boat?

Then I've probably just done the most valuable thing an adviser can do. Because the fee is staged, you never pay for stages that don't happen — if the deal dies at survey, the completion tranche never falls due.

Do you attend the survey or sea trial?

No — the on-the-day inspection belongs to a professional surveyor, and I don't attend. What I do is help you choose and brief the right one, and then make sense of what comes back: what's normal wear, what's a real problem, and what it means for the price.

Is this a brokerage?

No. I hold no listings, represent no sellers, and take no payment from anyone but you. I'm an independent adviser paid a flat fee by the buyer — that independence is the entire point.

Do you know every boat and every fault?

No — and be suspicious of anyone who claims to. Every boat is different, and after a decade I still met new problems every season. What you get is honest best-effort judgment from deep first-hand experience: on the boats and systems I know well, direct answers; on the ones I don't, I'll say so plainly and help you find the person who does. Knowing the limits of your knowledge is part of the service.

Which boats and where?

Motor yachts, roughly 40–75 feet, bought or kept in the western Mediterranean — the South of France especially, where I owned and ran my own boats for over a decade.