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Yacht Charter And Central Agents

Yacht Charter And Central Agents

Yacht Charter And Central Agents

Yacht Charter And Central Agents

Yacht Charter And Central Agents
Yacht Charter And Central Agents

Southeast Asia's Yachting Magazine Vol. 13 No. 1, Jan - Feb 2018

by: Easy Branches Team

1997 – 2017: 30 years have 1997 – 2017: 30 years have passed since the first Phuket King’s Cup Regatta and with it the introduction of the first charter yachts in Phuket. The yachting industry at the time largely ignored South East Asia (SEA), but Phuket has become a fully recognized yacht charter destination.passed since the first Phuket King’s Cup Regatta and with it the introduction of the first charter yachts in Phuket. The yachting industry at the time largely ignored South East Asia (SEA), but Phuket has become a fully recognized yacht charter destination.

Today, the challenge for the International Charter brokers is to select the right boat between the 150 bareboats and numerous superyacht operating 12 months a year in Asia

The mission of a Yacht Charter Central Agent

Crewed charter yachts offer widely differing facilities and accommodation, because they have been especially built to their owners’ requirements. Each potential charterer has his specific needs, from food preferences to standard of services, and from budget to crew characteristics. The wrong boat, or an inade-quate crew, can ruin very costly holidays leading to bitter endings.

To keep clients satisfied and book the right vessel at the right place, charter brokers must have up-to-date knowledge of the yachts and their destinations. Generally, charter bro-kers will have access to a large range of yachts, but have little time to come to South East Asia to conduct their own sourcing and selection. These international charter brokers will work with local partners and, for the luxury market, with the “Yacht Central Agents” of each boat.

A Central Agent (CA) is appointed by the owner to run the yacht’s promotion, dispatching information via its own website, direct listings and its professional on-line plat-forms. It is the coordinator between the yacht, the broker, and the charterer, confirming the yacht’s availability and the terms of the charter contract.

To be sure of giving the right descrip-tion of vessel it is imperative that the CA has detailed knowledge of the yachts in his or her portfolio, all gained from personal visits to the boat to check facilities, meet crew and sample the cuisine.

The latest superyacht charter in Asia Marine's portfolio

MY ADASTRA was described by Boat Internationals as "one of the world's most amazing superyachts that could spell the future for efficient long-range cruising"

Built in China by Shuttleworth Design, Adastra has now covered. over 40,000 miles, weath-ered 50 knot winds and crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. She is on her way back to Asia via the Caribbean and Pana-ma. The owners, a Hong Kong Resident, proposed to appoint Asia Marine as Charter Central Agent to Eric Noyel, CEO of Asia Marine Hong Kong.

But can Adastra be called a charter yacht? Before posting such an extraordinary prototype in his charter portfolio, Vincent Tabuteau CEO of Asia Marine Phuket went to Santorini in Greece to meet with the crew and understand the charter capacity of this amassing and unusual superyacht. Adastra takes the power trimaran concept further than has ever been attempted. The chal-lenge of turning this concept into a viable luxury yacht has led the Shuttleworth Yacht Design team to further research and develop new thinking on stability and comfort at sea for this type of craft. The outrigger height has been optimized for ease of motion at sea, and a new outrigger shape has been developed to increase stability in waves.

Adastra's 16-metre beam features a saloon area on the main deck with a lounge area, dining table, and navigation station. The deck at the rear of the yacht has a sofa and bar area to port and a dining area to starboard. The open deck running aft also has a door that hinges out to create a bathing platform. Further aft of this there is space for a 4.9m tender and directly below is a garage which can store a 3.1m tender. The deck saloon has a pan-oramic view.

Extra space has been created below deck by slightly flaring the central hull just above the waterline. This area has been split into two sections with a full-width master cabin located aft with access from the deck saloon, and two further guest cabins, accommodation for the crew, and the galley located forward of the engine compartment. Adastra offers comfortable accommodation for nine guests and up to six crew members.
The large wraparound saloon windows create fantas-tic views and an atrium effect inside. The spacious saloon of Adastra is almost circular in shape and offers superb views to those in the lounging and dining areas. A door through the windscreen allows access to a large foredeck sunbed that can be shaded with an awning suspended from carbon-fibre poles set into the deck. The main helm station, which has two seats on a plinth that give a view over the cabin top, is in a raised pilothouse between the saloon and the aft deck. Hatches in the overhead provide ventilation but also allow the helmsman to put his head out for a 360-degree view when docking.


ADASTRA

Long Range Cruising Revolutionary trimaran, ultra-light, designed for long-range explora-tion and luxury charter.
ADASTRA will attend the Antigua Boat show and operate a charter season in Grenadine Trinidad and Tobago and then Bolivia Island before heading to Panama and the Pacific.
The Charter rate is US$100,000 per week + expenses for up to 9 passengers and 6 crew Length Overall 42.5m Beam 16m Draft 1.6m to tip of rudder Displacement light 52 tonnes
Fuel Capacity 30,000 litres Speed Max 23.2 knots Speed cruising 17 knots Range at 17 knots 4,000nm Fuel consumption - 130 litres per hour
Guests 9 (3 doubles and 3 Pulmans) en suite Crew 5-6 Tenders 4.9m and 3.1m RIBS
Main engine lx Caterpillar C 18 1150 hp Outrigger engines 2 x Yanmar 110hp Generators 2 x 36 kw and lx 26 kw

Asia Marine has been based in Phuket since 1989. It is the "charter central agent" for five superyachts and operator of a fleet ofbareboats based in Yacht Haven. CEO Vincent Tabuteau is the Vice-President of the TMBA (Thai Marine Business Association), &founding member ofAPSA (Asia Pacific Superyacht Association) and a member of the CYBA.

For further information on Adastra or other yacht charters, please contact:

Vincent Tabuteau Ratana Tabuteau Founder & CEO, Asia Marine Director of Sales & Marketing Boat Lagoon, Phuket Boat Lagoon, Phuket
vincent@asia-marine.net marketing@asia-marine.net +66 (0)81-827-6075 +66 (0)89-508-1333
www.asia-marine.net; charter@asia-marine.net

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