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The brokerage team at Ashwell Foyle Yachts spent years at the helm, in boatyards and in maritime title closings before stepping onto the Annapolis pontoon, so every client is advised with real seamanship and technical fluency behind the answer.

One broker stays with a buyer or a seller from the first walk-through onward. Where a question belongs to a colleague — a rigging inspection, a survey finding, a USCG title search — the two work it together, and nobody is handed along.

  • Foredeck hardware and a flush deck hatch on a white foredeck, in a tall crop.

    Principal

    Marisol Vega

    Principal broker · CPYB · USCG 100-Ton Master · YBAA member

    Takes the first dockside viewing on most vessels, and oversees the bonded escrow and YBAA contract on every sale.

    Marisol Vega holds a U.S. Coast Guard 100-Ton Master licence alongside the industry's highest brokerage credential, Certified Professional Yacht Broker (CPYB), and has spent nearly two decades in yacht brokerage. She has logged over 45,000 offshore miles delivering and sea-trialling motor yachts and sportfishers, and she still walks every hull herself before it is shown. She pairs honest mechanical transparency with disciplined YBAA contract and escrow protection, and she says plainly when a boat is the wrong size for the water a buyer has described.

    Ask for this role when you want a vessel's history and condition read out before anyone talks about price.

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    Supporting role

    Tobias Grantham

    Senior cruising & sail yacht broker · CPYB · ASA Offshore

    Tobias Grantham raced and cruised sailboats long before earning his Certified Professional Yacht Broker designation, and is an ASA Certified Offshore Sailor with twelve years in bluewater and trawler brokerage. He brings practical knowledge of standing rigging, sail inventories, solar and lithium off-grid systems and liveaboard ergonomics to every buyer search, and he is at his best matching cruising couples with honest, sea-kindly vessels suited to their true passages rather than to dockside flash. He attends the survey day with his buyers and walks the findings through with them.

    Ask for this role when you are buying a cruising sailboat or trawler and want a broker on your side.

  • The cockpit of a sailing yacht under a bimini, with twin wheels either side of the companionway, in a tall crop.

    Supporting role

    Priya Raghunathan

    Marine systems & survey advisor · ABYC Master Technician

    Before joining Ashwell Foyle Yachts, Priya Raghunathan spent fifteen years directing mechanical and electrical refits as service director at a full-service coastal boatyard. As an American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC) Master Technician across electrical, diesel and marine systems, she conducts the pre-listing systems walkthrough for sellers, grounds every appraisal in what the engine room and wiring actually show, and helps buyers tell a routine US$400 maintenance item from a major structural or propulsion repair on survey day.

    Ask for this role when a survey finding or a refit estimate needs explaining before you decide.

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    Supporting role

    Nadia Ferreira

    Closing, escrow & documentation manager

    Buying a documented vessel involves federal Coast Guard filings quite unlike a car or property title. Nadia Ferreira, a certified maritime documentation specialist and bonded yacht escrow administrator with ten years in USCG title and marine finance, manages the escrow account, clears bank payoffs and maritime liens through official USCG Abstracts of Title, coordinates marine lender disbursements and state tax filings, and makes sure every buyer casts off with clear title. She also books the 90-minute dockside viewings. Registration documents and payment details are kept off the public form and arranged separately once a boat has been agreed.

    Ask for this role when you are not sure which service your enquiry belongs to, or have a title question.

Who handles which enquiry

Every enquiry starts with the person best placed to answer it. The dockside viewing and full-service brokerage each have two people behind them, because those are what a first enquiry most often turns out to be. A visitor may ask for a particular broker through the contact form; availability is confirmed separately.

You do not know which service applies
Closing & documentation managerExplains what a dockside viewing covers and books the appointment.
You want a boat's history and condition read out first
Principal brokerWalks the specification dossier and engine hours with you, at no charge.
You are selling and the boat is not listed yet
Marine systems & survey advisorRuns the pre-listing ABYC systems check and a SoldBoats valuation.
You are buying a cruising sailboat or trawler
Cruising & sail yacht brokerSearches listed and quiet inventory to your cruising range and draft.
An offer is accepted and survey day is next
Cruising & sail yacht brokerCoordinates haul-out, surveyor and sea trial, and walks the report through.
The deal is agreed and title has to transfer
Principal brokerOversees the YBAA contract, bonded escrow and USCG documentation to closing.

Start with a dockside viewing

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

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