Guides for Owners.

Written by Luigi Adamo for Owners, family offices and their advisers. Each guide covers one part of a superyacht project, from the Owner’s side.

• The superyacht new build process, from the Owner’s side

  The stages of a new build from the Owner’s side, from the build contract to delivery and the warranty period, and what the Owner decides at each one.

• Choosing a shipyard for a superyacht new build, from the Owner’s side

  The brief, a tender on the same scope, how to compare the offers, what to ask each yard and the role of the Owner’s lawyers in the build contract.

• The superyacht build budget: commitments and forecast final cost

  What a new build budget contains, how commitments and the forecast final cost are reported, and what the monthly report to the Owner shows.

• Variations in a superyacht new build: how a change should reach the Owner

  How a change to the contract should reach the Owner, why only a written decision approves it, and what the variations register records.

• The Chief Engineer in a superyacht new build, from design review to handover

  Why the Chief Engineer joins early, what the role covers from design review to the warranty period, and who appoints and pays.

• Superyacht sea trials and delivery: what the Owner should see

  Factory tests, harbour tests and sea trials, what the Owner should see for each test, and what acceptance at delivery means.

• A family office and a superyacht new build: decisions, authority and reports

  Who decides when a family office is involved, how authority is given in writing and how reports, cadence and dashboard access are agreed in the mandate.

• What a superyacht Owner’s Representative does

  What the role covers at each stage, how it differs from a broker or the yard’s project manager, and what to agree in a written mandate.