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What owners and mariners say

Reputation travels fast along the docks of a harbour town. Sellers and buyers wrote these after trusting their transactions to the brokerage, each under their own name and beside the service they used. There is no average and no star summary, because six letters cannot honestly produce one.

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Brianna & Cole F.

As first-time buyers of a twin-outboard cruiser, with two young children, we worried that a full yacht brokerage might rush us. Instead Tobias spent ninety unhurried minutes aboard a 31-foot family cruiser with us, going through docking visibility, generator safety and cabin layouts with the same patience he would give the buyer of a much larger yacht. He connected us with a marine lender offering a 15-year fixed term and arranged two days with an instructional captain after closing, so we felt entirely confident docking in a crosswind.

From recent closings & sea trials

  1. 02

    Richard & Pauline W.

    Moving up from a 30-foot dayboat to a 48-foot coastal cruiser felt intimidating. On the first boat we fell for, at another brokerage, Marisol and Priya spotted fine crazing around the windlass mount that an accredited surveyor confirmed was moisture in the balsa core, and we walked away with our full escrow deposit back within 48 hours. Three weeks later they found a freshwater-kept sistership, coordinated the haul-out and Caterpillar borescope checks on the same Tuesday, and negotiated the full 1,000-hour cooling service into the price as US$22,000 in after-cooler service credits.

  2. 03

    Capt. Martin D.

    Before our 42-foot express sportfisher went on YachtWorld, Priya spent two hours going through our bilge pumps, seacocks and service binder, and flagged two slightly weeping hoses that we fixed beforehand for US$300. With everything in order and documented cleanly, the first out-of-state buyer who flew into Annapolis went straight to survey. We closed within twenty-four days at 97% of our asking price, without a single renegotiation after the haul-out.

  3. 04

    Gordon & Mei-Ling S.

    Most powerboat-heavy brokerages gloss over chainplates, sailcloth life and watermaker plumbing. Tobias understood offshore liveaboard systems better than anyone we spoke to, from the age of the standing rigging to lithium house banks. He climbed into every locker with us across four sailboats, confirmed the exact date the standing rigging was replaced, arranged an inspection aloft during the sea trial, and introduced us to an excellent local rigger and sailmaker after closing.

  4. 05

    Lawrence T.

    I nearly bought a documented cruiser privately until a friend warned me about maritime liens. Having Ashwell Foyle Yachts structure and close the purchase paid for itself ten times over. Nadia pulled the USCG Abstract of Title and found that the previous owner’s marine bank, long since paid off, had never filed its satisfaction of mortgage: a twelve-year-old lien. She tracked down the successor bank’s maritime release team and cleared it completely before any of our funds moved.

  5. 06

    Phillip K.

    Settling my late father’s estate from three states away, with his classic downeast cruiser sitting on blocks in a yard, could have been a nightmare. Marisol delivered a documented SoldBoats valuation for our probate attorney, coordinated spring commissioning and bottom paint with the yard, and sold the boat cleanly within six weeks of launch. From the winter yard work to the final wire disbursement, it was handled with complete integrity.

Start with a dockside viewing

It is complimentary and runs about 90 minutes, and it ends either with a boat worth a written offer or with a plain statement that nothing in the slips fits.

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