Acting on behalf of private owners, operators, brokers, key parties in the yacht insurance market as well as their legal representatives Braemar advises on issues and claims related to yacht operation, design and construction.

Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals: Master Mariners and Marine Engineers, Naval Architects & Yacht Designers, Yacht Surveyors.

Services & Capabilities:

Marine Causality Investigations and Expert Witness

• Collisions
• Groundings
• Contact Damage
• Rigging failure
• Fire
• Flooding
• Machinery Damage
• Salvage
• Sale, purchase and new build disputes

Surveying

• Pre-purchase surveys including sea trials and valuations
• Periodical Condition Surveys
• Stability Surveys
• Damage Surveys including H&M and P&I
• Risk Assessment including Yacht Shipyard Surveys: JH 143
• Marine Warranty Surveys including Load-in/outs

Recent project:

• Building dispute (on behalf of shipyard)
• Contact damage  and stabilisers failure
• High performance sailing yacht: structural failure
• Superyacht rigging failure
• Catamaran: Total Constructive Loss following Fire
• Marine Casualty investigation: collision between two yachts