Yachting Industry News | March & April 2023

Yachting Events, New Yacht Listings, and Sold Yachts in March & April.

This article is a transcription of Denison’s March & April 2023 monthly recap video. Tune in monthly to discover the most recent yachting industry and superyacht news from Denison. Watch the full video above.

Hi guys, this is Bob and we are here to talk about what your friends at Denison have done, what we’re going to do, and a little bit about who we are. So the what we’ve done part. We had a busy few months here. So you guys know the Miami show happened, the Palm Beach show happened part of the Palm Beach or boat show events, an experience or whatever.

We had a launch party for this FRANK magazine. I think it’s the coolest corporate magazine in  yachting. It’s issue number five. We had a great time launching this, and by this, it’s lots of pages of really cool articles. Billy Springer, Jennifer Peacock. Thank you guys so much for helping lead the charge on that and putting it together. Issue six will be out really, really, really soon. If you haven’t read it, by the way, it’s a magazine worth reading. Check it out. 

We also are doing a bunch of different boat shows. So like this week alone, we’re doing four boat shows. We’ve got the Newport Beach Show in California. We’ve got the Seattle Afloat Show in Seattle, and then two shows in Europe. One’s the Palma International Boat Show, of course in Spain. And the other one I can’t pronounce because I’m really bad at saying French words, but it’s the La Napoule Boat Show… you know what I mean.

We’re doing that boat show. And then also one of the cool things we did, and at the end of this video you’ll see it, but we flew in a few, I guess you call them comedians or podcasters, Chad and JT. You may have seen them before advocating for public yachts. We helped coordinate a trip. They came down to Miami, actually Miami Beach City Council, and they got a key to the city and they kept advocating for public yachts. And they had really, really good funny times with us on the docks down in Miami.

And we also sold a bunch of boats. So I’m going to highlight a few of them right here. The first one I’m going to mention is a 135 Horizon 2010 called KOMOKWA. That boat is up in the Pacific Northwest, sold by Kurt Bosshardt and Alex G. Clarke. Also a 41 meter Codecasa. Sold by Julian Calder in Europe and we also sold a 92 Hatteras. Those are great. Boat was sold by Brandon Barnes called Pura Vida. We also sold an 80 Marlow 2017 called Never My Love. Really, really, really pretty boat. Also, Brandon Barnes. Thank you very much. And Chad Robertson, everybody’s favorite broker, including my wife. She loves him way too much. Chad Robertson sold a 66 Azimut 2020 here in South Florida. Congratulations, Chad.

And now we’re going to talk about what we are going to do. So your friends at Denison Yachting, we’re going to do a bunch of different things. One of them is the Monaco Grand Prix. We’re getting ready to host some clients and VIPs on the balcony there in Monaco. One of the reasons I love that office, it’s right on the start/finish line. I’ve never been to the Monaco Grand Prix, but a bunch of people are.

We’re also going to be preparing for the shipyard tour where some of Denison’s brokers are going to be heading to Italy to learn. Obviously network, kind of like hear about opportunities at different shipyards, not only how they’re built by, but also by who they’re built by and all that stuff. It’s a really, really great time. 

Also a 37XP Numarine is launching. We have our team there right now, including Alex Clarke, Ryan Alexander, and others there at the shipyard. And we are also going to be marketing the living shit out of a bunch of new listings that we got. We’ve been working very hard at not only securing new listings, but our team out there, the marketing team is going to be like extra gear time getting as much attention as possible and what we can on, on those listings. 

And now who we are. And the part of who we are at Denison, West Coast. So West Coast. It’s not West Coast of Florida, Sarasota, Naples. We’re talking about West coast of the US. So, starting in Lake Union or on Lake Union in Seattle, and going south. We have offices and people there. Next is Marina Del Rey, then Long Beach, then Newport Beach, San Diego. We really have the best, bravest, coolest collection of yacht brokers out there, and I am so excited to be with them during the Newport Beach Show. And also just spending more time with the west, when California opens up again.

And as part of that, the man responsible for us being on the West coast and really responsible for a lot of great things here at Denison is my old partner Nereus, who is going to be departing but will remain a friend of mine personally and of the company for a long time. And he is a big reason that Denison is Denison and kind of this thing, this it thing that we have and whatever. He is a huge part of the company. Was a huge part of helping grow this into a mature grownup place. And we are going to be sad to see him spend less time here, but we love him very much. And I just needed to tip my hat to somebody that many of you don’t know.

So Nereus, I love you, goodbye. And as a weird transition from sad things to kind of fun, happy things. Alex is going to drop in a clip of the Chad and JT stuff, who, by the way, those guys are from California, so it’s a perfect transition and their experience with us in Miami. Thanks a lot. Bye, bye.