Yacht management in Fort Lauderdale.
The office, the crews and the largest share of the fleet.
The home water. Our office, our crews and the largest share of the fleet are here, so the company covering your boat in Fort Lauderdale works out of this office.
In this town the dock is usually somebody's back yard.
Fort Lauderdale is the densest service market in the country for this work, and that cuts both ways: there is no shortage of people who will wash a boat, and a very short list of companies who will own the whole program and answer for it.
Dockage here is mostly fixed. A seawall, pilings, lines set for a tide that moves twice a day, on a canal behind a house or in a slip a few streets off the Intracoastal. A residential canal has no dockmaster and no yard on site, so between owner visits the only person who looks at the boat is the one you sent.
The water is warm all twelve months, so growth on the bottom and in the strainers never takes a season off and neither does the sun. Nothing here gets a winter lay up to hide behind. The boats that come out of the water with a story are the ones that were only visited when the owner was in town.
What we run here is the full management program. The coordinator who takes your call works out of this office, the technicians are ours, and the yard relationships are ones we hold rather than ones we found this week.
What we do here, between your visits.
A Fort Lauderdale program is one coordinator in this office and one invoice, with the work happening on the weeks you are somewhere else. The full list of what runs under it is on the yacht management page.
- A standing weekly visit Wash down, a walk of the systems, tank levels read and photographs taken, on the same day every week. Salt spray and rain spotting here are constant, so the interval is set to match them.
- Systems started and exercised Engines and generators started, seacocks exercised, sea strainers cleaned, main panel checked. A boat that sits still at a private dock for a month loses more than a boat that runs.
- A coordinator who works out of Fort Lauderdale The person who takes your call knows the vessel, the dock it sits at and the captain who last ran it, all from this office.
- Yard periods held by us When the boat has to come out, the yard relationships are ones we already hold. We agree the scope in writing, stand there while the work happens, and inspect it before anyone signs off.
- Everything written down the same day Photographs, tank levels and service dates land in Mariner Pro after each visit, beside the insurance certificate and the storm plan with their expiry dates.
Air conditioning is the first call in August.
Repairs and upgrades, carried out by our own technical team, the same people every time. In a Fort Lauderdale summer the failures worth catching are the ones that cook an interior: a tripped shore power breaker, a raw water pump, a strainer packed with growth, a battery that stopped holding a month ago.
The plan has to name somebody who is here in September.
Hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30, and most carriers will not let you change a named storm plan once a storm has a name, so the work happens in February. The plan has to say who prepares the vessel, who moves it and when they start. For an owner who spends the summer north of here, that is the whole of the relationship.
Executing one in Fort Lauderdale often means the New River, a haul out up river, and bridges that have to open on the same weekend every other owner in town wants the same thing. We schedule against that, our own captains run the delivery, and the plan sits in the app with the insurance certificate and its expiry date.
The company behind the visit, in numbers.
Call, and we will walk the boat with you.
754-260-7773We will meet you at the dock in Fort Lauderdale and go through the vessel. We'll write down what it needs and talk through what a program would actually cover.
Same crews and the same schedule in Miami, Miami Beach and Palm Beach.