Buying a yacht, with a clearer plan.

Tell Josh what you want from your next boat. He’ll take care of the search and the work behind it, from researching value to coordinating surveyors and helping find a suitable slip.

Your plans set the direction. Josh does the searching.

Lake Washington afternoons, Puget Sound weekends, or longer trips to the San Juan Islands, Roche Harbor, the Gulf Islands and Desolation Sound: the right boat starts with how you want to spend your time. Josh turns those goals and your budget into a focused search, then helps compare the boats that fit.

You don’t need a shortlist to get started. If a boat has already caught your eye, send the link and Josh can take it from there.

Look beyond our own listings

Josh can help you purchase almost any boat listed on YachtWorld, including boats listed by other brokerages. Send him a listing that interests you; he can confirm availability and the arrangements for working with the listing broker.

Travel with Josh for a larger purchase

For larger purchases, Josh is happy to travel worldwide with a client to look at any boat. The search can reach well beyond the Pacific Northwest, with travel plans and arrangements discussed together.

Shipping and importing your yacht

One of Josh’s legal clients is MTI Worldwide Logistics, a customs broker specializing in yacht import clearance and worldwide transportation. Whether the right boat is in Florida or elsewhere in the world, MTI can help arrange shipping and, where needed, customs clearance. Josh can make an introduction to discuss the route, logistics and costs.

Research behind the price

Josh checks SoldBoats.com and other comparable-sales information to help evaluate a yacht’s value. He works through condition, equipment, service history and asking-price context with you, so the discussion is grounded in the boat and the market.

Surveyors, inspections and sea trials, coordinated

Josh helps arrange surveyors and coordinates inspections and sea trials with the people involved. He helps you understand the findings, identify follow-up questions and work through the next steps in negotiation and closing.

A place to keep your next boat

Finding the right yacht also means finding somewhere to keep it. Josh helps new buyers and owners moving up in size look for a suitable slip, working moorage into the search instead of leaving it as an afterthought.

One point of contact through closing

From the first conversation to the handover, Josh helps coordinate the people, information and decisions that move the purchase forward. Tell him your priorities; he’ll guide the process and keep you involved where your decisions matter.

Read more about Josh’s background, or see how he manages a yacht sale if you also have a boat to sell.

Mercer Island Yacht Sales · (425) 531-0160 · Email Josh