Entrust the management of your yacht
Crew, maintenance, paperwork, berthing and charter revenue — handled, reported, and kept under control.
A yacht is a small business: a crew, a maintenance schedule, a flag administration, an insurer, invoices. Management means someone runs it, and you read one report instead of forty emails.
What is covered
The boat run for you, and accounted for to you
Crew
Recruitment, contracts, payroll, certificates, rotation and, when it is needed, replacement. The crew is the single biggest factor in how a boat is kept.
Maintenance
An annual plan, winter works, engine servicing, class and flag surveys. Planned maintenance costs less than emergency repairs, every single time.
Compliance and paperwork
Flag, registration, insurance, certificates, port formalities. Kept current, rather than rediscovered the week before a survey.
Berthing and movements
Berths for the season and in transit, delivery passages, and transport when the boat changes area.
Budget and accounts
An annual operating budget, then monthly reporting against it. Every invoice traceable, and no expense committed above an agreed threshold without your approval.
Charter management, if you want it
The boat marketed for charter, weeks filtered, contracts handled, provisioning allowance accounted for, and revenue set against the running costs.
How it works
From handover to the first annual review
Survey of the boat, and of how you use it
Condition, history, crew, and how many weeks a year you genuinely use the boat. That is what decides the scope.
Scope and budget
What is managed, what stays with you, and an annual operating budget. Both written down before anything is signed.
Handover
Contracts, insurance, certificates, suppliers and accounts transferred and checked. Two to four weeks in practice.
Running the boat
The plan carried out, the crew managed, and the boat ready on the dates you want it.
Monthly report
Works done, works coming, spend against budget, charter revenue if there is any. One document, not a thread.
Annual review
What the year cost, what the next one should cost, and an honest opinion on whether keeping the boat still makes sense for you.
What it costs
A fee, and nothing hidden in the invoices
- Management fee
- A fixed annual fee, set by the size of the boat and the scope retained, invoiced monthly.
- Charter management
- A percentage of the charter revenue actually collected. No weeks booked, nothing invoiced.
- Running costs
- Crew, fuel, berthing, works and insurance are yours, and are paid from the operating account. I take no margin on supplier invoices.
The fee is what I am paid. Everything else is passed on at cost, with the invoice attached.
What is not included
What management does not do
- Absorb the cost of ownership. Management organises spending and reduces waste; it does not pay the bills for you.
- Accounting, tax and company administration, which stay with your accountant. I provide the figures they need, on time.
- Insurance broking. Quotations are obtained and claims are managed, but the policy is between you and the insurer.
- Any guarantee of charter revenue. A forecast is given, and it is presented as a forecast.
- Class and flag inspections, which are carried out by the classification society and the flag administration.
Why go through Rayan
What an audience changes for a managed boat
The boat stays presentable, and that has a value
A boat that may be filmed is a boat kept ready. When it comes to selling, a documented maintenance history and existing footage are worth more than a discount.
Charter weeks that come from the audience
Boats under management are seen by people who charter. Filling a calendar is easier when part of the demand arrives on its own.
- 2 millionFollowers
- 1 billion+Views
- Hundreds of yachts visited and presented on camera.
- An international clientele, in French and in English.
- Tens of millions of euros in closed deals.
Frequent questions
Questions owners ask about management
From around fifteen metres upwards, and from the point where the boat has a crew. Below that, management usually costs more than it saves.
It depends where. There has to be a network on site to answer for the work; without one, management would be an illusion sold at a distance.
Rarely all of it. A well-placed boat with a good crew can cover a substantial part of its running costs. Anyone promising more than that has not looked at the maintenance line.
Yes, and your weeks are blocked first. Charter is fitted around your calendar, never the other way round.
If the crew works, yes, and it usually does. The captain keeps command of the boat; management takes the administration off him.
With the notice set in the contract, usually three months, and a full handover of accounts, certificates and contracts. A management contract that is hard to leave is a bad contract.
Tired of running the boat yourself?
Tell me the boat, the crew and how you use it. You get a scope, a budget, and an honest opinion on whether management is worth it for you.