Latest brokerage news from Edmiston

While the Edmiston charter team is out in force inspecting the new Caribbean charter fleet, the salesmen have been networking with their international clientele this month closing the sales on three purchases (Netanya 7, Highland Breeze and Distraction) and signing up half a dozen significant new central agencies.

The Cote d’Azur office is particularly active with Russell Crump signing up a 2001 Sunseeeker 105 “Flagship boat with the Mk II look” – named Shereen, this 31m with handsome dark hull does an impressive 31 knots, with a 600 mile range, and is lying in the South of France. Asking price of euro3.5m ex VAT for one of Britain’s finest brands.

For those feeling the pinch of the USA property market then perhaps the more modest Falcon 24m Sea Magic at 1.65m euros will see you through 2008 until you are ready to conjure up something larger. Commercially registered and MCA compliant, “no expense has been spared maintaining Sea Magic” according to broker Steve Bridgeford in Golfe Juan.

“Now you see it now you don’t!”
Thunder B is undoubtedly one of the late Jon Bannenberg’s finest creations and when this 50m boat ups anchor and races back to port to secure the prime berth mid season (guests can still enjoy a fresh dip in the 7m swimming pool on the foredeck), other boat owners are going to be seeing more of her vast exhausts and water jets than her James Bond style racy metallic silver profile. Likely to be sold before this goes to print, at 18.9m euros, Thunder B is a turbine / waterjet propelled advanced composite piece of living art. In fact she even sports a couple of Matisse touches down below for arty types. Who needs to visit the museum in Nice when you have it on board?

Other creative types might like to look at Ocean 55 (drawing), a 55m “retro classic” also marketed by Bridgeford. Undergoing a full rebuild she could be ready for world cruising by the end of 2008 if a buyer sticks to one of the two options already designed. More likely Edmiston’s new build specialists will be called in to work up some alternatives with a purchaser who enjoys adding his own touch. Ice-strengthened and with port & starboard beach platforms plus a 5500nm range, she is clearly a go-anywhere ship.

Edmiston’s new New York office has rapidly penetrated the core of the big apple’s big money, old and new. Newly listed by Vice President Diego Marroquin Torres is Enterprise V, a 51m Feadship ‘Rolls Royce’ build in the Netherlands in 1992, refited in 2006 and offered for US$22.5m. NYYC’s members will also no doubt be dropping by for a chat with Edmiston classic yacht specialist broker Mike Horsley next time he is in town – Shamrock V, the 1930 J Class, designed by Charles E Nicholson, is offered at just US$15m, an introduction to the Mediterranean classic regatta circuit perhaps being of more interest to potential owners than her ABS and MCA compliancy. Hoist that vast spinnaker with K3 in Imperia this spring and see how many new friends come out of the woodwork. Teak hull, accommodation for eight guests (as many as you like on deck racing), lying S.France.