Northrop and Johnson

As a yacht broker with Northrop and Johnson of Massachusetts, Eric Ciambra enjoys a professional environment supported by a more than efficient infrastructure that allows him to give a client the best possible service wherever they are located.

In Eric’s travels worldwide, the most common question he gets as a yacht broker is “why does somebody buy a 100 foot plus yacht and not just rent it when they need it?”

It’s a fair question.  After all, with yacht ownership comes expense as well as ongoing capital outlay.  It goes without saying pride of yacht ownership is a huge factor.  Historically, most owners start off chartering a yacht and then become owners.  It allows them to see if they enjoy the lifestyle.  It permits them to test different types of vessels in different environments.  It allows them to test crew and cultivate a certain amount of buyer experience and comfort.

After a certain amount of time and certainly a lot of expenditure, ownership (for those who value the lifestyle) becomes the natural next step.

So, Eric asked a yacht owner who is a very successful CEO of a company why he owns a yacht.  His answer was because of his often busy schedule, it was the only location that he had discovered where he could truly spend quality time with his family and friends.  This gave Eric an insight as to why so many yacht owners have so much affection for their chosen yacht.

To those who asked that question or are thinking of asking it, Eric is hopeful this has been useful.

For more information on yacht ownership or charters, feel free to visit www.njyachting.com or call 978.921.6600.

Over the years, yacht brokers of the Northrop and Johnson office of Boston, have travelled and sold yachts to clients worldwide. Yachting is a lifestyle. The asset, a yacht, is a small part of that lifestyle.

Yachting is filled with adventure, relaxation and bonding with family and friends. If you would enjoy scuba diving in Tahiti, surfing in Australia, fishing in Cabo, sightseeing at Glacier National park in Alaska or relaxing on a sandy beach anywhere in the world than you will enjoy yachting. If you enjoy exotic culinary feasts, six star service and total control of your environment than you will enjoy yachting.

Yachting has also been the venue for many successful business relationships and meetings. Our brokers have been a part of organizing business events on yachts that have seen a 15% increase in productivity by a restaurant chain, an increase in business closings of 40% for a service company involved with jets worldwide and the raising of millions of dollars for charity.

Some yacht owners have had bad experiences with yachting, due largely in part, on the relationship with crew.  On occasion the Captain has found it appropriate to treat the yacht as his own and the owner as a guest. Yacht brokers of the Northrop and Johnson office of Massachusetts offer complete yachting concierge service.  We provide complete  information about a yacht or yachts so the client is able to make the best decision possible for their purchase.   We not only assist our clients in locating the perfect yacht to suit their needs, we also assist our clients in finding crew who would be best suitable for the job. We refer the client to legal services, insurance and documentation services available to assure a smooth and efficient transaction. Once our client becomes a yacht owner we continue dialogue with the client and Captain to ensure yacht ownership meets our client’s expectations.
 
Our company has been in business since 1956. Brokers and staff of the Northrop and Johnson Boston office have had experiences worldwide with every aspect of yachting.  This includes working closely with shipyards on a new construction, yacht transport, yacht management, to yacht charters and provisioning.  Our 52 years of knowledge and experience are used to assist our clients in making every aspect of their yachting experience an enjoyable lifestyle.

For more information on purchasing a yacht or yacht concierge service, please contact info@njyachting.com.

In my haste to prepare the sailboat well in advance of the first sailboat race, I allowed the spinnaker halyard (part of sailboat rigging) to run to the top of the mast. I devised a plan to retrieve the halyard, taking advantage of the fact that my boat was fitted with an external main halyard.

Calculating that a large plastic garbage bin full of water would be heavier than me, I quickly gained position of a bin from the club premises and by means of a system of lines secured the bin to the main halyard. By lowering the bin over the side of the boat I filled it with water while I set up a system to secure the tail of the halyard to one of the winches. To be sure that the bin would be heavier than me I added a few builders’ bricks.

I winched the bin to the mast head and tied a loop for my foot at the end of the halyard. I was now all ready to be taken to the top of the mast by the weight of the bin.

When I released the halyard my assent to the top of the mast commenced more quickly than I had anticipated. As I rose I was not able to avoid the ascending bin and received a severe blow to my right shoulder with minor abrasions to my neck and upper arm. The impact of the ascending bin pushed my under the spreaders brusing my left shoulder and the left side of my neck.

When I arrived at the top I could not slow down and my fingers were drawn in the mast head shaves causing multiple contusions and lacerations. At the same time the bin hit the deck with a bang and split open. As the water gushed out I became heavier than the bin and I began to descend with ever increasing speed. As I went past the spreaders I received a glancing blow to my left buttock which threw me into the path of the now ascending bin which bruised my right buttock and took the skin off my right leg.

My decent was hurriedly terminated when I arrived at the boom, but, unfortunately I had one leg on either side of it. The shock caused me to duck forward suddenly, striking my head on the mast which caused me loose my grip in the halyard. Down came the bin which tipped over when it landed on the spreaders, tipping the bricks some of which landed on my head. I must have lost consciousness because my crew found me latter all of heap on the deck inside the garbage bin.

Steve Doyle, yacht broker of Northrop and Johnson Boston office, has sold numerous yachts to a high profile Detroit businessman over the years.

“When I first got into yachting, I thought the yacht was 90 percent the experience and the crew maybe 10 percent.  It was when I purchased my first yacht that I realized the percentages were the other way around.  A boat is a boat; it’s the crew who makes the experience a pleasure”, says the Michigan businessman.  “The yacht is a part of their lives – it’s their home and they treat it with enormous respect and affection.  That feeling transmits itself to us and to our charter guests.”

“Part of the beauty of owning a yacht is that it’s also a learning experience for our children.  My son is mechanically inclined and I wanted to encourage that.  The captain and crew made a commitment at the onset that they would teach him whatever he wanted to know about all aspects of the operation and now my son helps plot charts and has learned what the engine room systems do and how they work.”

“Another reason yacht ownership is such a luxury, it seems to me, is that no five-star hotel or resort is remotely comparable in terms of quality of service and amenities.  You can stay in the best hotel in the world and maybe there’s a concierge 20 floors below you, but on the boat the concierge and his staff are just a few feet away.  Anyone leading a high profile business life will find that when looking for the ideal “escape and relaxation” environment for their families and themselves, nothing comes close to the yachting experience.”

The Detroit businessman currently owns M/Y Sovereign, a six stateroom, 120’ Broward that charters approximately 18 weeks of the year.  For more information on how to charter this yacht or if you are interested in yachts for sale, contact info@njyachting.com or call 978.921.6600.