Yachts of this size are usually run superbly at sea and improvised ashore. The crew are excellent and entirely occupied. The technical history lives in their heads, and it leaves when they do. Come the autumn, a yard quote arrives and there is nothing to judge it against except the yard's own word.

Larger fleets solve this with a shore-side technical department. Most privately owned yachts do not have one, and the cost of not having one is invisible until it is very visible.

That is the whole proposition: shore-side technical expertise, by the day, by the project or on a monthly agreement, always against a written scope.

What it changes. You start with a written picture of the yacht: her condition on the day, what her records do and do not show, and what the next twelve months of recommended technical maintenance is likely to cost. It is a document most owners have never actually held. From there, quotes get judged on evidence rather than trust, refits get tendered rather than accepted, and you have your own number before the yard gives you theirs. Nothing has to be bought in sequence. One question answered properly is a perfectly good place to begin.

Paid by the owner, and by nobody else. No commission, no yard mark-up, no supplier rebate. When a quotation is recommended here, there is no other reason for recommending it.