Our team is in the market all year round researching and speaking to the people shaping the market. Would love to hear from you about potential topics for future events, so please get in touch via email or calling Louisa Whyte on +44 1737 844 3836 / +1 800 757 8059.
Agenda topics:
Is this the start of the Roaring 20s?
Understanding the Covid-Rebound
What are the key trends to watch
How will the current up-cycle end?
Does the Great Financial Recession offer a guide – or is this cycle completely different?
Francesca Webster Superyacht Times
Martin Redmayne, The Superyacht Report
Selling to the new generation
Are younger buyers really different?
Can the industry become more transparent?
Will younger buyers wait years for a yacht?
Jan-Bart Verkuyl, CEO, Feadship
Financing yachts in a boom
Managing the different demands of an upmarket
Sustainability and yacht finance
Keeping up with rising prices
Michel Buffat, Credit Suisse
Olivier Blanchet, BNP Paribas
Andy Blundell, Close Brothers Aviation and Marine
Superyacht insurance 2022
Is there enough Megayacht capacity?
Is more consolidation of underwriters coming?
Is Lloyds losing its crown?
Covid issues: Minimum crew levels on moored yachts
Alex Kemp, HFW
Ben Lind, AIG
Mike Taylor-West, Partner&
Mike Wimbridge, Pantaenius UK Ltd
Legasea – Diversity and inclusion in yachting
How is the MYBA Memorandum of Agreement performing?
Did force majeure provisions work?
What else could be changed during a sellers’ market?
Managing yachts in a boom
Dealing with new customers
Finding crew
Will new buyers stay?
Raphael Sauleau, FRASER
Charter contracts in a pandemic
How did the MYBA Charter contract and Covid addendum perform?
What needs to be changed?
How it works in practice
Sarah Allen, Pennington Manches Cooper
Tim Johnson, TJB Superyachts
Crewing
The rise of rotation
Pros and cons of crew getting rotation
The (surprisingly) high cost of crew leaving
Is yachting attracting the next generation of talent?
Tim Clarke, Quay Crew
The costs of a badly managed new build project
How things can go wrong with a new build
Picking the right team
What can go wrong
The essentials that need to be in place for every build
How can owners protect themselves?
Living the US boom
What has driven it?
How did the IYBA contracts cope with Covid?
The SYI debate
Below Deck is this the greatest thing to happen to yachting
Sustainability is really about sales?
Brokerage in a boom
Will first time buyers stay?
Finding inventory in a boom?
Wil the boom last?
Is the broker/yard relationship shifting
Jamie Edmiston, Edmiston
