Destinations
Cruising grounds and refit hubs the team works in routinely.
Why these locations
Cruising grounds, refit hubs, and transit gateways.
Each destination below is a place we run tender briefs through often — a primary cruising ground (Med, Caribbean, Pacific), a refit hub (Italy, the Solent, Florida), a transit gateway (Singapore, Dubai), or all three. Every page covers marina capacity for tenders, local refit yards, the practical regulatory notes (VAT, registration, customs), and the local handling contact path.
Paired with brokerage
Listings tagged by where the boat sits.
Listings on the for-sale register carry a destination tag where the boat is currently located. Each destination page shows the tagged listings inline once inventory is on the books, and the index feeds the faceted listing pages that filter brokerage inventory by region.
How to use it
A quick read for refit, spec, and registration.
Setting a refit window? The relevant destination page is a quick read on yards within an hour or two of the marina. Spec'ing a tender that runs out of a specific port? The marina capacity and draft notes catch the small stuff. Registration or VAT? Every destination flags the local quirks and links into the underlying guide.
All destinations
Every cruising ground & refit hub
Antibes
Port Vauban is the deepest tender-trade pool on the Med, and the calendar runs on Cannes and Monaco show prep.
GreeceAthens
Athens is the charter-prep engine room of the Mediterranean: the turnaround port for the largest commercial fleet in the Med.
New ZealandAuckland
Auckland is the southern hemisphere's yacht-refit capital and the natural staging port for any superyacht working the Pacific season.
SpainBarcelona
Barcelona is the western Med's refit pole, home to the largest superyacht refit yard in the world.
TurkeyBodrum
Bodrum is the centre of Turkish superyacht building and a non-EU base that stops the EU VAT clock for visiting tenders.
FranceCannes
The Cannes Yachting Festival is the tender industry's commercial pivot, and the whole logistics calendar bends around two weeks in September.
United KingdomDartmouth
Dartmouth is a builder's port on the deep-water Dart — a place for sea trials, handovers and warranty work, not show season.
United Arab EmiratesDubai
Dubai is the Gulf's only year-round superyacht base, and its tender season runs October to April around the February boat show.
USAFort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is the largest concentrated superyacht tender market in the Americas and the West's busiest refit-and-transport hub.
ItalyGenoa
Genoa is a builder's port and the busiest yacht-transport hub on the Med, not a guest destination.
United KingdomHamble
The Hamble River is the operational heart of British boatbuilding — a handover, survey and winter-storage base, not a guest port.
Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong holds Asia's largest resident motor-yacht fleet but limited deep-water berths, so most tenders work as anchorage shuttles.
USAMiami
Miami is the guest-facing half of the South Florida tender corridor and host of the February boat show.
MonacoMonaco
The densest large-yacht harbour in the world runs a captain-led tender market that peaks hard around the Grand Prix.
GreeceMykonos
Mykonos is an anchorage destination, not a marina one: high-frequency tender shuttling defines every programme that calls here.
BahamasNassau
Nassau is the Bahamas gateway where shallow-draft beach-landers and open tenders earn their keep from December to April.
USANewport, RI
Newport runs a Memorial Day to Columbus Day tender programme built around drier, deeper-V hulls and shipyard-based refit.
USAPalm Beach
Palm Beach is a winter base for US East Coast programmes, bracketed by the March and October show seasons.
SpainPalma de Mallorca
Palma is the deepest brokerage and refit market for superyacht tenders in Europe, and the western Med's busiest spring re-spec window.
ThailandPhuket
Phuket is the base for almost every superyacht cruising the Andaman, with tenders split between Phang Nga island work and Mergui crossings.
United KingdomPlymouth
Plymouth is a Princess Yachts builder town where the tender calendar tracks new-build deliveries and sea trials in the Sound.
FranceSaint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez runs as a tender economy: yachts lie in the bay and every guest moves by tender, all season.
SingaporeSingapore
Singapore is the South-East Asian turn-around port between Andaman high season and the Indonesian archipelago, with the region's only private CIQ marina.
United KingdomSouthampton
Southampton is the UK marine industry hub and the natural Solent service base for tender handover, sea trial and mid-season refit.
AustraliaSydney
Sydney is the southern hemisphere's largest superyacht-marina base, with intensive harbour tender work and a winter run north to the Whitsundays.
ItalyViareggio
Viareggio is a building town: tenders here are commissioned with the mothership, not traded off the dock.
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