We work for owners who would rather not be treated as an account, and whose boat is never one of many. We manage yachts and charter them, refit them, buy and sell them — and because the name on the transom is our own, we have never chased volume, and we have never dealt with a boat we wouldn't sail ourselves.
This is tailored yachting.
Selection
They are simply harder to argue with than adjectives.
What really counts, though, is what won't fit above: the trust, the long friendships, the boats still admired years later.
Our Approach
The way we work has not changed since we began. The children who grew up aboard are buying their own from us now.
We have stayed small, privately owned, and undivided in our attention — because that is the only way we know to do this properly. Small at the centre, but never short of reach: we partner, in each place, with the few people worth knowing.
In thirty years we have refitted close to two hundred yachts. That is not a number for a banner; it is the reason we can look at a boat and know, fairly quickly, what it needs, what it doesn't, and what it is hiding.
Three decades across the world's yachting markets have shaped who we are today. International in perspective, local in knowledge, personal in approach.
From one yacht to the next, through management, refits and new adventures, we stay close to our clients for years — often decades.
Manifesto
The finest watch tells you the time. A boat tells you to forget it.
A boat is an investment in the things that never reach a balance sheet: the summers your children will actually remember, the friends who came for a weekend and stayed a week, the mornings you woke somewhere you never expected to love. The lunch that ran into dinner because no one could find a reason to leave the table. The anchorage you had entirely to yourselves.
That return only arrives if the boat is ready when you are and our work is to see that it always is.
We've been doing this for three decades. We plan to be here for the next three.
Services
Because the name on the transom is our own, we have never chased volume, and we have never dealt with a boat we wouldn't sail ourselves.
We manage yachts, refit them, and run them — so when we price or inspect one, we read it as people who know what it costs to keep, not what it costs to advertise. Most brokers represent the listing. We represent you.
Chartering a yacht well is running a small, exacting business on a moving platform. We run it to hospitality standards above the waterline and maritime standards below it. Every charter week is managed as if the boat were our own.
In thirty years we have refitted close to two hundred yachts — enough to know what a boat needs, what it doesn't, and what it is hiding. We manage the process from survey to sea trial, so you don't have to.
A week at sea, on the right boat, with the right crew, is among the finest things a year can hold. We work for you, not for the listing — a shortlist of three, never thirty. We know the boats we recommend because we have been aboard them.
We have stood everywhere around a new build: as dealers, designers, owners, and supervisors. We hold the parts an owner shouldn't have to carry — and we are useful at every stage, from choosing the yard to the moment the lines are cast off for the first time.
From technical matters to ownership structures, jurisdictions, flags and operating economics, we help our clients navigate the decisions that surround yacht ownership. One trusted point of reference, with the right expertise brought in whenever it is needed.
Thirty years is not a marketing claim.
It's a paper trail.
We began in the mid-nineties
1995 · Mediterranean
We began in the mid-nineties, when the internet was a curiosity, a superyacht was a rare sight in a harbour, and crossing the Mediterranean with a family aboard was still a small adventure. The industry was finding its feet. So were we. We have grown up alongside it ever since.
Chapter 1 of 6: The Origin
ORIGIN
We began in the mid-nineties, when the internet was a curiosity, a superyacht was a rare sight in a harbour, and crossing the Mediterranean with a family aboard was still a small adventure. The industry was finding its feet. So were we. We have grown up alongside it ever since.
CHARTER
Then came the charter management. Owners who had bought from us asked us to look after what they had bought, and it turned out we were good at it: the maintenance, the compliance, the accounts, the crew, the quiet machinery that keeps a boat ready and its owner free. We have done that work ever since.
GLOBAL REACH
We have shown our boats and met our owners at Genoa, Cannes, Monaco, Miami, Paris, Düsseldorf. Along the way we built the thing that matters most in this trade and takes longest to earn: a network of shipyards, craftsmen, captains and technicians, across the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, who answer the phone when we call.
SAIL
The first chapter was sail. With Catamaran Center, we helped bring catamarans to people who had never thought to consider one, and we represented Lagoon Catamarans for fifteen years, long enough to watch the multihull go from curiosity to first choice across the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.
POWER
Power followed. For eight years we were official dealers for the Ferretti Group. We sold new builds and brokered pre-owned ones, supervised custom construction from contract to launch, and ran the refits that brought tired boats back to life. Hundreds of yachts passed through our hands in those years, sold, traded, rebuilt, and every one taught us something we still use.
TODAY
Today the firm carries a family name, which is its own kind of discipline. We have stayed small, privately owned, and undivided in our attention, because that is the only way we know to do this properly. Small at the centre, but never short of reach: Boutique means partnering, in each place, with the few people worth knowing.
Yachting has changed. The children who grew up aboard are buying their own from us now. The way we work has not.
Client Perspectives
What distinguished Bracco Yachts from every other broker we consulted was their complete absence of commercial pressure. They told us not to proceed with two vessels before we found the right one. That honesty is extraordinarily rare in this industry.
Contact
Most good things start with a conversation.
Tell us what you have in mind: a charter, a refit, a purchase, a sale, a build, or an idea you haven't fully formed yet. We are here for you.
We'll come back to you the same day, in the language you prefer.
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66 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL
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Pjazza Tigné, Tigné Point
TPO 0001, Malta
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