OUR BROKERS
Gerry JacoB (EUROPE) |
Tel: +33 6 72 58 56 47 |
Stephen Cockcroft (USA) |
Tel: 1-804.815.5054 |
Stephen has represented hundreds of buyers and sellers in transactions. And with his vast experience of the international marine business, technical, financial, tax issues and contractual aspects, he is without a doubt the person you would want in your corner representing your interests when buying or selling a yacht.
Stephen...
Stephen...
- Is an instructor/examiner with the ASA.
- Has taught hundreds of people to sail catamarans as well as monohulls on live-aboard courses in the Caribbean and The Bahamas.
- Has operated his own brokerage house in the United States and is a licensed and bonded yacht and ship broker in the State of Florida.
Michel BenarrosH (USA) |
Tel: 1-917.331.7665 |
Buying a charter boat requires complex decision-making on several levels. Yet, owning a luxury vessel can be a wonderful process, made easier by getting the right information from a trusted source like Michel. Michel has...
- Has owned six boats over the years, including three charter yachts.
- Works as a consultant for the purchase and sale of charter yachts.
- Maintains membership in Boating Writers International and has published numerous cover articles in several major nautical magazines and publications.
- Has extensively cruised the eastern Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
- Holds a U.S. 50-ton license.
- Is a licensed yacht broker in the State of Florida.
- Is a European CPA and holds a doctoral degree in international business law.
Christophe Vanek (AUSTRALIA) |
Tel: +61 457 036 756 |
Throughout his career, Christophe has cultivated unique, longstanding relationships with all of the high-end manufacturers: Lagoon, Beneteau, Jeanneau, Catana and Ferretti, just to name a few. While serving as managing director of Duboats, he won acclaim as the 2007 “Personality of the Year” for the boating industry in the Middle East. Today, with Dream Yacht Charter, he is managing director of Queensland Yacht Charters and Dream Yacht Sales in Australia.
Learning his trade from the ground up, Christophe began as a sailmaker and yacht rigger. In addition to his 1983 America’s Cup (where at 18 he was the youngest crew member), Christophe would go on to sail in two more America’s Cups and compete in a host of other professional yacht racing championships, including transoceanic races on Maxi multihulls in France (the Elf Aquitaine II, Commodore Explorer, and Roger & Gallet—all 80+ footer catamarans), 10 Sydney to Hobart Races (twice world champion), the Admiral’s Cup, Fastnet Race, 18ft Skiff NSW Championship on Sydney Harbour, the World Match Racing Tour championship circuit, the Brisbane to Osaka Race (winner), the Dubai to Muscat Race (four-time winner) and the 1999 Mini Transat Race (crossing the Atlantic solo). The list goes on and on with many more regattas and championships in Australia and overseas. Christophe’s invaluable expertise as a sailor and a yacht sales professional make him ideally suited to assist clients who wish to buy, sell or invest in a luxury yacht for private or in-fleet charter use.
Learning his trade from the ground up, Christophe began as a sailmaker and yacht rigger. In addition to his 1983 America’s Cup (where at 18 he was the youngest crew member), Christophe would go on to sail in two more America’s Cups and compete in a host of other professional yacht racing championships, including transoceanic races on Maxi multihulls in France (the Elf Aquitaine II, Commodore Explorer, and Roger & Gallet—all 80+ footer catamarans), 10 Sydney to Hobart Races (twice world champion), the Admiral’s Cup, Fastnet Race, 18ft Skiff NSW Championship on Sydney Harbour, the World Match Racing Tour championship circuit, the Brisbane to Osaka Race (winner), the Dubai to Muscat Race (four-time winner) and the 1999 Mini Transat Race (crossing the Atlantic solo). The list goes on and on with many more regattas and championships in Australia and overseas. Christophe’s invaluable expertise as a sailor and a yacht sales professional make him ideally suited to assist clients who wish to buy, sell or invest in a luxury yacht for private or in-fleet charter use.
Christine Buttigieg (USA) |
TEL: 1-866.819.0265 |
Since then, Christine has been intimately involved in many aspects of the marine industry; working ashore for a boat maintenance/refit company in Florida and working the boat show circuit for Perini Navi. After this it was back to sailing again, first with a deluxe charter operation in the Grenadines on a Dynamic 80 and Maxi 80 then on a day charter company operating a 100' 3-masted schooner in the Caribbean.
Seduced by sailing catamarans, Christine bought a Privilege 48 and after a complete refit in Trinidad, she operated her as a crewed yacht, in St Maarten area. At that time, she was hired by a charter company to run the charter office, operating eight Privilege catamarans in St Marten. Christine then moved back to Florida in the late 1990s, to sell these yachts, she has been a yacht broker ever since, specializing in catamarans sail and power, representing hundreds of buyers and sellers from all over the world. Speaking English and French she is able to help buyers and sellers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Seduced by sailing catamarans, Christine bought a Privilege 48 and after a complete refit in Trinidad, she operated her as a crewed yacht, in St Maarten area. At that time, she was hired by a charter company to run the charter office, operating eight Privilege catamarans in St Marten. Christine then moved back to Florida in the late 1990s, to sell these yachts, she has been a yacht broker ever since, specializing in catamarans sail and power, representing hundreds of buyers and sellers from all over the world. Speaking English and French she is able to help buyers and sellers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Florentin Le Noxaic (GREECE) |
Tel: +30 697 029 2444 |
Florentin was born in Lorient, Brittany, the land of sailboat racing, and attended the INB (Brittany Boat Business School in Concarneau), where he gained his knowledge about boating and yacht sales. After that, he traveled all around Europe with his sailboat and his motorbike. Is based in Greece the last 5 years and he is performing in the yacht sales business the previous 7 years. |
Cathy Lorho (CARIBBEAN) |
Tel : +596 696 77 45 81 |