“Your Yacht. Our responsibility.”

A yacht left unattended in Mallorca does not stand still. Moorings chafe, anodes dissolve, batteries discharge, seacocks corrode from the inside, and the vessel berthed alongside yours changes without warning. None of this announces itself.

We attend your yacht on a fixed schedule and inspect it against a checklist built for your vessel rather than a generic form: engines, batteries, through hull fittings, bilges, mooring lines, fenders, hull integrity, safety equipment, electrical systems and the position of neighbouring vessels. Before and after every storm warning, we attend again. Where a deficiency is found, we tell you what it is, what it will cost to address, and what it will cost to ignore. You decide. A corroded valve replaced on schedule costs a few hundred euros. The same valve discovered after it has failed costs a flooded engine compartment.

Most owners are told that everything is fine. Very few are shown.

After each service period you receive a written report. Every system graded by risk, every deficiency photographed, every corrective measure dated, every outstanding item carried forward so that nothing quietly disappears between visits. Where works have been performed, the costs appear alongside the contractors' own invoices, not summarised, not marked up. Kept over years, this becomes the technical history of your yacht: the evidence that supports an insurance claim, the document that answers a buyer's questions before they are asked, the basis on which a season is planned. Your vessel's condition becomes a matter of record rather than opinion.

A privately registered yacht cannot legally be chartered in Spanish waters. Certification is required, the process runs in Spanish across several authorities, and it frequently demands modifications that are not obvious in advance. Many owners abandon it. Others discover the requirements only after taking bookings.

We assess first whether your vessel qualifies and what it would take to make it qualify, so that the commercial decision comes before the cost. Where the vessel proceeds, we coordinate the modifications, prepare the documentation and manage the certification through to approval. The outcome is a yacht that generates income for part of the year instead of only consuming it, in most cases offsetting a substantial share of berth, insurance and maintenance.

A chartered yacht earns money and loses condition at the same time. Engine hours accumulate, guests are not owners, turnarounds are short, and damage that goes unrecorded at handover becomes your cost rather than the charterer's.

We inspect and photograph the vessel before and after every charter, sign handover protocols, and record any damage at the moment it can still be attributed. Cleaning and preparation between bookings are handled so that the yacht presents as well to the tenth charterer as to the first, and maintenance is scheduled around the calendar rather than allowed to interrupt it.

We also prepare the commercial presentation: professional photography, accurate descriptions and properly maintained listings. A well photographed yacht is booked more often, and at a higher rate, than an identical one that is not.

A refit is where the largest expenditure and the poorest visibility meet: the vessel in a yard you cannot attend, worked on by contractors you did not select, generating costs you cannot verify.

We define the scope before work begins, drawing on the vessel's inspection history rather than on what a yard proposes to sell. We tender it, obtain at least three quotations for every significant item, and present them in three costed scenarios: conservative, minimum and recommended. During the works we attend the yard, inspect progress and verify each system before the vessel returns to the water. Variations are priced and put to you before anyone proceeds.

A single repair in Palma means obtaining quotations, comparing them in a language you may not speak, judging whether a price is reasonable, and establishing whether the work was carried out to the standard invoiced. Most owners either accept the first quotation or postpone the work. Both are expensive.

We source contractors from a network built over years of working alongside them, compare quotations, negotiate terms, supervise execution and inspect the result. Every invoice is reconciled against the work actually performed. Where a price is not justified, we say so in writing. Where a repair can properly replace a replacement, we establish that before the part is ordered.

Before you buy: A yacht presents well on a listing and rather differently once the engine hatches are open. We assess the vessel independently, identify its deficiencies and set out what the first twenty four months of ownership will realistically cost. You negotiate knowing what you are buying, and frequently with grounds to revise the price.

Before you sell: A buyer discounts what they cannot verify. We bring the vessel to a condition in which it can be viewed without apology, prepare a full photographic and technical record, and present the maintenance history in a form that answers the survey before it is commissioned.

An incident is not settled on the facts. It is settled on the evidence that can be produced about them, and that evidence is gathered in the first days, by someone who knows what will matter later. We document the event while it is fresh, in the terms an insurer and a surveyor will use. We establish the liability position, correspond with insurers, surveyors and third parties on your behalf, and follow the matter through to settlement. Where a neighbouring vessel, a contractor or a marina is responsible, we pursue them rather than letting the cost settle quietly on you.

Where a matter requires legal representation, we work alongside specialist maritime firms. For clients under continuous management, the reporting history earns its keep here. A documented maintenance record is the most effective answer to the question every insurer eventually asks: whether the loss arose from the incident, or from neglect that preceded it.

You have travelled to Mallorca for a limited number of days. Those days should not begin with a flat battery, an empty tank or a fortnight of Saharan dust on the hull.

Before you arrive, the vessel is cleaned inside and out, fuel and water topped up, systems tested and the yacht left ready to leave the berth at the hour you specify. Provisioning is arranged on your instruction. After your departure we attend again, secure the vessel and report anything requiring attention while it is still a small matter. For an owner who visits three or four times a year, this is the difference between a first day lost to logistics and a first day spent at sea.