Articles

What we know, written for the buyer.

A yacht purchase is decided on information the buyer rarely holds. These articles set out what a pre-purchase survey covers, what a sale contract permits once defects are found and how to judge the person you are about to trust with a seven-figure decision.

They are published as we write them, under the NAVI name. They carry no sales material. NAVI begins commercial operations in 2027.

Published

In preparation

What follows

Records

The order a yacht's records should be read in

Which documents to ask for first, what each tier proves and the point at which the condition of the machinery cannot be certified.

Choosing a surveyor

Should you use the broker's surveyor or appoint your own?

Who pays whom in a brokered sale, what the absence of licensing in the United Kingdom means and which credentials are worth verifying.

Experience

The whole-life view: why a specialist survey misses things

Building, operation, dry dock and disposal each leave something the next stage inherits. What a single-discipline inspection cannot see.

The contract

The survey clause, explained for the buyer

What the MYBA Memorandum of Agreement permits a buyer after survey, by when and what the surveyor has to certify.

Contact

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