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Barney Sandeman: A yacht broker’s view of yacht sales

Five grand and a tender: The yacht broker Barney Sandeman discusses his love of classics, and the way of yacht sales.

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If you didn’t know who Barney was, you’d mistake him for a surfer, with his long blonde hair, blue eyes, tan and laid-back apparel. If you’ve been around classics long enough, you’ll have come across him somewhere, either in Britain or at the big regattas, as he’s trodden the waterfronts of many a far-flung location, like the Antigua classic   or the French ‘voiles’. Despite the surfer looks, he’s a pretty big name in boat brokerage, and has sold hundreds of classics over the years, including some of the most famous yachts in the world, like Fife’s schooner Altair. His brokerage, Sandeman Yacht Company, is based in the pretty old part of Poole in Dorset, just a few hundred yards from the sea, and from the front, it looks like a nice, well-kept old shop. It’s home to Barney (literally – he lives above), and, in working hours, to his partner in crime, Iain McAllister, a yacht-obsessed Scotsman whose great grandfather raced in the America’s Cup in 1887 aboard Thistle .

Barney grew up in Dorset, racing Cadets, Lasers and more in Poole Harbour. Although not “tactically astute enough” (he smiles here) to race in the Olympics, he was in the squad once, and has won national and European championships. After A Levels in the early 80s, he “ran away to sea” as a deckhand on a large Swan and was in St Martin when Bob Dylan’s schooner Water Pearl sailed in. This was an era just before the classics scene had got going, and seeing “something natural” like that sail in made a real impression. And before that, his mother was friends with the then-owners of the Fred Parker motor yacht Caramba (recently restored and featured in this magazine), and to this day, Barney refuses to sneer at a motorboat – “if it’s a lovely boat, then you’re out on a lovely boat” is his take. After a spell working in his father’s advertising company, Barney decided that if he was going to sell something, it had better be something he loved, and this brought him back to sailing, and after five or six years as a yacht broker, he set up Sandeman Yacht Company in 2004, specifically to sell classic yachts .

Buying and selling yachts

By this point, the present day had arrived, and sailing had changed: the marinas, once forests of masts bustling with activity as families would load up their yachts on a Friday night for a long weekend of sailing, had become quiet lowlands of large, white motorboats. But on a brighter note, the classics scene was well underway. In most ways, not much has changed since then. It’s still “heart over mind.” In terms of buyers, Barney doesn’t see many time-wasters, apart from the occasional late-night, wine-fuelled email of enquiry. “You can’t talk someone into buying a classic. You’ve got to want one already – it’s almost like it’s in your genes. There are so many things that can stop someone buying. Circumstances, weather, the ability to afford it… buying a yacht is the ultimate luxury… so it takes a real momentum to get over the line. It takes a pretty special person.” The good news is that this moment of lunacy is seldom regretted. Even the man who, after a quick Day Skipper course and without any ownership experience, bought a 60ft, twin-engined Silver motor yacht from the 1950s and motored it from Livorno to Cyprus with his son – albeit helped by having boatbuilder Will Stirling on board.

Barney is equally moved by those selling what is, for them, a family member. Someone might have owned a yacht for half a century, and when that happens, it’s not the boat they’re selling; it’s the memories. Aside from the history and beauty of the boats and the great zeal of those buying them, there is a standard process to observe, which starts with a first visit to the boat by Barney and the potential buyer. Sandeman Yacht Company is signed up to the Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents ( ABYA ), the standard bearer, whose rules stipulate – among other things – that offers are made subject to survey and sea trial. This was a source of some irritation to the famous Italian character Mario Pirri, who from the 1970s owned the fabulous 70ft, 1930s Fife yawl Latifa. “If you’re sat in a bar and you see a beautiful woman, you don’t ask for a structural survey before you sleep with her,” he appealed. The survey, which took three of four days, was nevertheless completed and the boat was sold. 

It’s not all easy sailing. “Honestly,” Barney sighs with a smile. “If I ever write a book, which no one will read, I’m calling it Five Grand and a Dinghy because every yacht sale seems to come down to the last £5,000 – and the tender!” Is it because the tender is a keepsake of a lost love, you might wonder? “No! It’s usually simpler than that. It’s like the light fittings in a house sale. I’ve had people spending more than £100k on a boat asking whether the outboard is included with the tender! There was one occasion where the owner spirited the tender away to the south of France after the sale. I had it brought back to the rightful owner – the new buyer – in a lorry!” 

If there’s one thing that upsets Barney, it’s the go-faster mania that has infected some classic fleets, particularly those racing under IRC, which frequently sport rules-friendly tall, high-aspect rigs, modern deck gear and sails of dubious colour. “We have a lot to learn from the car world,” he says. “If you turned up to Goodwood Revival in a Healey with a spoiler, you’d be laughed out of town. The irony is that on many of these suped-up yachts, you’ll see an old Beken photo below decks, showing what she looked like when launched. These modernised classics are in danger of losing the magic and just being slow, old boats. Keep them original, or as authentic as possible as they do in the Med under CIM rules, and they will be happier boats. They will sing, and people will be inspired, and stop to gaze when they see them.”

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Classic superyacht Altair now for sale with Sandeman

A call to Barney Sandeman at Sandeman Yacht Company brings news that he's now taken over the central agency for sale of the 40.08m classic sailing yacht Altair with a €1 million price reduction.

Altair was built in 1931 by William Fife & Sons and was faithfully restored in 1987 with a major refit in 2007. This gorgeous superyacht has French polished walnut throughout her guest accommodation and her interior is considered one of the most beautiful and authentic in any yacht. The panelling, door furniture and bathroom fittings are all from 1931. In 2007 all nickel and chrome interior fittings were removed and re-plated with the interior freshly French polished and painted.

Altair sleeps seven guests in a master, VIP and three single cabins and is now asking €6 million.

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Business | yacht broker responds to antitrust lawsuit: we’ve ‘done nothing wrong’.

A Fort Lauderdale-based yacht broker is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it and numerous other members of South Florida’s yacht industry engage in unfair competition by requiring 10% commissions be paid by purchasers of preowned boats.

Denison Yacht Sales is the first of a group of yacht brokers, mostly based in South Florida, to respond to allegations leveled in three antitrust lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Miami.

The lawsuits claim that trade associations, including the International Yacht Brokers Association, work in conjunction with Multiple Listing Services and individual yacht brokers to require that commissions are paid to brokers for both sellers and buyers.

The first lawsuit was filed by Wyoming company Ya Mon Expeditions on Feb. 29.

The second lawsuit was filed on March 22 by Alabama customer Kip Lamar Snell, while a third was filed on March 26 by a company called Magna Charter LLC, identified as a yacht purchaser who paid a commission.

On Monday, a federal judge assigned to two of the three lawsuits agreed to a request to consolidate them into a single suit.

The lawsuits are patterned after litigation that accused the National Association of Realtors of conspiring with real estate brokers to artificially inflate commissions paid when homes are sold.

A federal jury in Kansas City, Missouri, issued a ruling in October favoring the plaintiff. On March 15, the Realtors agreed to a settlement that’s expected to force major changes in how homes are sold in the United States.

Denison’s motion in the Ya Mon Expeditions case requests dismissal of the claims against only Denison, asserting that the company “has done nothing wrong and is being sued for merely being a yacht brokerage and having had an executive that served on the board of” the International Yacht Brokers Association.

Denison states that it has been “lumped into these broad-stroke allegations” that it has “implemented,” “adopted” and “enforced” a rule requiring inflated commissions of 5% each for the seller’s and buyer’s brokers.

The lawsuits refer to the alleged commission requirement as the “Buyer’s Broker Commission Rule.”

But Denison’s motion states that the broker “has no such requirement, does not require its brokers to be members of any association” and does not “require use of any MLS, nor mandate brokers pay cooperating brokers (inclusive of buyer’s brokers).”

Denison is “purely free market” and its “only major requirements are that its brokers be legally licensed and impeccably honest,” the motion states.

Further, the motion states that the lawsuit fails to make specific allegations regarding Denison while making “vague and conclusory” charges against all 15 defendants.

The only specific allegation that forms the basis for naming Denison as a co-defendant, the motion states, stems from company president Bob Denison’s membership on the International Yacht Broker Association board of directors, the motion states. That allegation cannot be used to hold Denison Yacht Sales liable, because there is a lack of “evidence of actual knowledge of, and participation in” what the plaintiffs allege is an illegal scheme.

Other shortcomings of the complaint, as identified in the motion, include failure to allege reasonable restraint on trade or an antitrust injury.

Denison is represented by Beverly Hills, California-based attorney Christopher Brainard, and Emily Heim of Bayramoglu Law Office LLC of Henderson, Nevada. Heim did not respond to an email on Monday and Brainard said he had no comment on Denison’s motion or the cases against the yacht broker industry.

Denison’s response is likely just the first of a cascade of court filings to follow as the consolidated case seeks class-action status.

Late last week, attorneys came forward representing defendants Boats Group LLC, Permira Advisers LLC, United Yacht Sales LLC, HMY Yacht Sales, Galati Yacht Sales LLC, MarineMax Inc., and Northrop & Johnson Yacht Ships LLC.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore granted a request by two of the law firms representing Ya Mon Expeditions and Kip Lamar Snell to consolidate the three “nearly identical” cases into one, effective immediately.

The judge’s ruling stated that consolidating the cases would “streamline these proceedings and eliminate unnecessary repetition and confusion.”

Moore, however, said he would decide on the law firms’ request to appoint them as interim co-lead counsel in the consolidated case “in due course.”

If the request is granted, interim co-lead counsel responsibilities would be divided among Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, an antitrust firm with offices in 10 cities, and Miami-based Podhurst Orseck P.A., a nationally known firm that specializes in complex commercial and class action claims.

Ron Hurtibise covers business and consumer issues for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. He can be reached by phone at 954-356-4071, on Twitter @ronhurtibise or by email at [email protected].

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VESSEL REVIEW | Sinichka – Electric commuter boats designed for Russia’s Moskva River

A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow.

Built by Russian shipyard Emperium, sister vessels Sinichka , Filka , and Presnya – all named after rivers in Moscow – are being operated by the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development (Moscow Deptrans). They are the first units of a planned fleet of 20 vessels that will serve the capital city and other nearby communities. The new ferry system will be the water transport system to be operated on the Moskva River in 16 years.

Each vessel has a welded aluminium hull, an LOA of 21 metres, a beam of 6.2 metres, a draught of only 1.4 metres, a displacement of 40 tonnes, and capacity for 80 passengers plus two crewmembers. Seating is available for 42 passengers on each ferry, and the main cabins are also fitted with USB charging ports, wifi connectivity, tables, toilets, and space for bicycles and scooters. The cabin layout can be rearranged to allow the operator to adjust the distances between the seats and to install armrests of varying widths.

An open upper deck is also accessible to passengers and is the only area on each ferry where smoking is allowed.

The ferries are all of modular construction with each ferry’s wheelhouse, main cabin, and other structural elements being built as complete, separate components. This enables the ferries to be easily dismantled for transport to anywhere in Russia by rail and then quickly re-assembled within seven days.

The ferries are also ice-capable. Recently completed operational trials on the Moskva showed that the vessels can also easily navigate under mild winter conditions with broken surface ice, though year-round operations are planned for the entire fleet.

The ferries are each fitted with 500kWh lithium iron phosphate battery packs that supply power to two 134kW motors. This configuration can deliver a maximum speed of 11.8 knots, a cruising speed of just under 10 knots, and a range of 150 kilometres.

Emperium said the transfer of rotation of electric motors to the propeller is carried out by direct drive. As a propulsion installation, a pulling rotary propeller-steering column with double screws is used. The installation of double pulling screws, with similar power, allows an operator to increase the efficiency of the propulsion system to deliver a slightly higher speed or to reduce energy consumption. This arrangement also provides the ferries with enhanced manoeuvrability necessary for navigating in close quarters.

The batteries themselves have projected service lives of 10 to 12 years and are fitted with safety features such as built-in fire extinguishers and gas vents. Quick-disconnect features allow the batteries to be easily removed for replacement or maintenance.

Some of our readers have expressed disquiet at our publication of reviews and articles describing new vessels from Russia. We at Baird Maritime can understand and sympathise with those views. However, despite the behaviour of the country’s leaders, we believe that the maritime world needs to learn of the latest developments in vessel design and construction there.

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