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Worth Avenue Yachts is an international yacht brokerage company, specialized in luxury yacht sales, charters and new constructions. Its flagship office is located in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. A second Florida office is based in Fort Lauderdale and the company’s European office is in the Principality of Monaco.

Worth Avenue Yachts was founded in 2011 by Michael Mahan and fellow yacht broker Brian Tansey. Mahan started his career running yachts through the Caribbean, Mediterranean and along the US East Coast. He then moved into the role of President of Wayfarer Marine, where he transformed the company into one of the most respected marinas and refit facilities in New England. After 12 years, Mahan transferred successfully into yacht brokerage in 1997. He quickly built a name for himself in large yacht sales and as a project manager of yacht builds.

Mahan had seen yachting evolve from a niche leisure industry to a global powerhouse and become more professional, regulated and competitive. He recognized the need for an innovative approach to luxury yacht sales and charter. Traditionally, a client looking to buy or sell a yacht engages with an individual within a brokerage. Mahan believed the best way to serve the client was to pool the knowledge, contacts, and experience of all the brokers into a single team, all working on behalf of the same client. This approach has enabled Worth Avenue Yachts to sell yachts on average nearly three times faster than the competition.

Worth Avenue Yachts also builds custom mega yachts for clients. To date, the company has built more than 100 yachts, from inception to completion. It has cultivated relationships with custom yacht builders, shipyards, designers, project managers and naval architects around the globe.

Operations
Worth Avenue Yachts offers its clients expert advice and a portfolio of yachts for sale and charter. It also builds custom yachts. Clients wishing to sell their yachts benefit from the services of an entire team of yacht brokers and yacht marketing managers.

The retail offices of Worth Avenue Yachts are strategically located in affluent, high traffic areas, with state-of-the-art displays featuring relevant shipyards and new projects available for purchase.

Its flagship office at 150 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach – one of the wealthiest cities in the United States – is close to the Palm Beach International Boat Show (PBIBS). Worth Avenue Yachts’ Palm Beach showroom is highly visible and attracts walk-in traffic.

Fort Lauderdale, the location of Worth Avenue Yachts’ second Florida office, is home to the largest boat show of the year. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show offers people seeking to charter or purchase a yacht the opportunity to inspect vessels of every size. The office is a 15 minute drive from the Hollywood/Fort Lauderdale International Airport and close to major marinas and shipyards.

In Monaco, the Worth Avenue Yachts team of yacht brokers provide expert advice on yachts for sale and yacht charters in Europe. Staff also help clients book Monaco yacht charters, corporate yacht charters or Monaco Grand Prix yacht charters.

Fleet
Worth Avenue Yachts has a fleet of more than 50 vessels for sale and 17 for charter.

In addition, it maintains a database of photographs and full specifications of almost all yachts for sale worldwide. Potential buyers can search the database by yacht name, builder, length, age or price.

Destinations
Worth Avenue Yachts creates private charter yacht vacations in multiple destinations for clients seeking adventure, cultural heritage discoveries or relaxation. It guides clients in the choice of an appropriate luxury motor yacht from its charter fleet, selects the crew and customizes an itinerary.

Luxury yacht charter destinations include: New England in the US; The Bahamas, St Barts, Turks and Caicos (the 40 islands and cays south of the Bahamas, of which only eight are inhabited) and the US Virgins Islands in the Caribbean.

Worth Avenue Yachts’ clients also charter yachts in Cuba, Greenland, Alaska, Thailand and the unspoiled wilderness of Patagonia.

The Mediterranean, the birthplace of luxury yachting remains very popular for luxury yacht charters, offering possibilities to explore the South of France, the Italian Riviera, Corsica and the Greek islands, among many other destinations.

Most modern yachts have long-range cruising capacities, enabling Worth Avenue Yachts to organise private yacht charters in nearly every remote area of the world.