Engagement & pricing
Three ways to work with us
Most yachts need one thing: a shore-side team that already knows the ports, the authorities and the naval contacts on the route. Below is how that is scoped, how it is priced, and where the boundaries sit.
Fixed scope · Fixed fee · Costs at cost
Tiers
Scope and fee structure
Watch
Retainer — monthly or annual
Owners, captains and managers who want to stay ahead of a corridor before committing to a route.
- Continuous monitoring of the corridors relevant to the yacht
- Reviewed corridor briefings, refreshed as posture changes
- Named contact for questions on requirements, reporting and timing
- Notification when something changes that affects your planned route
Credited in full against a passage engagement started within the retainer period.
Passage Management
Fixed fee per passage
The standard engagement. The yacht sails under its own command; we run everything ashore.
- Operational assessment and passage plan before commitment
- Agents appointed and briefed in every port on the route
- Authority notifications, permits, transit bookings and formalities
- Bunkers, spares, provisioning and crew-change coordination
- Security reporting and naval liaison where the corridor requires it
- 24/7 desk while the passage is under way, and a written passage record on arrival
Quoted per passage against the assessment. Third-party costs — agents, canal dues, fuel, permits — are passed through at cost with documentation.
Full Operational Command
Passage fee + crew day rate
Owners who would rather hand the voyage over entirely.
- Everything in Passage Management
- Professional captain and delivery crew supplied via Yacht.Delivery
- Voyage executed on your behalf, watchkeeping included
- Single daily position and status report to owner or management
Two contracts, one operational picture. Crew supplied and contracted through our sister company Yacht.Delivery.
Fees are quoted per yacht and per route. Corridor, season, vessel size, crew position and insurance requirements all move the number, so we quote rather than publish a rate card.
Commercial principles
How we charge, and how we do not
Paid assessment first
Every engagement opens with an operational assessment: what the voyage actually requires, where the timing pressure sits, which documents drive the schedule, and what must be decided before departure. It is chargeable, and it is credited against the passage fee if you proceed.
Fixed fee, not a percentage
Our fee is agreed against a defined scope before work starts. We do not take a percentage of your spend, because that would reward us for making the passage more expensive.
Third-party costs at cost
Agents, canal and port dues, fuel, permits, pilots and escorts are passed through at cost with supporting documentation, and reconciled against the original scope on arrival.
Scope changes are quoted
If the voyage changes — route, dates, additional ports, extended standby — we quote the change before doing the work. No open-ended billing.
Boundaries
What we are not
- We are not a security company. We coordinate with naval reporting bodies and can arrange vetted providers, but we do not supply armed teams ourselves.
- We are not an insurer or broker. We give the operational facts your underwriter will ask for, and we work to the conditions they set.
- We do not take command of your yacht unless you ask for it, in which case crew is supplied through Yacht.Delivery under a separate contract.
- We do not publish a client list. Discretion is part of the service.
Start with an assessment
Give us the outline of the voyage and we will come back with what it requires, where the pressure sits, and what the engagement would cost.