HILL ROBINSON Hill Robinson provides a specialised management service, sharing the responsibility for all aspects of yacht ownership and operation. With multilingual office staff and a presence around the world, Hill Robinson is on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year committed to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity offering clear and unbiased advice. Hill Robinson will work with you to find the solution that best suits you. From mini ISM to complete management including everything from project management to offshore payroll, there is a solution to suit your needs and your budget; all for a fixed monthly fee. The independence and significant fleet size mean that Hill Robinson is able to continually source the best possible solutions at the very best prices. It is this quality of service, attention to detail, value for money and delivering satisfaction that are the cornerstones of Hill Robinson’s portfolio of services. For more details Tel: +33 492 90 59 59 or visit
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team here has specialists from the commercial shipping sector, human resource managers, chartered accountants, insurance and legal experts, hospitality professionals and many more. It is this diverse skill set that enhances the overall service deliverable and provides owners with the required confidence to work with and recommend us. Mark has been with
Y.CO for 5 years and joined them with a 20 year background in the industry, including high-end luxury cruise ship and hospitality experience.
Damian Martin is the Director of Yacht Management at Edmiston, a company he joined nearly 4 years ago after 15 years’ experience within the yachting sector. Before that he had spent 12 in military service. He believes there is a balance to be found. “It can be difficult for a yacht manager to gain the respect of crew if they are not seen to have ‘walked the walk’, but this doesn’t mean that all managers should have been involved in yachting. I think a good mix of backgrounds allows a rounded viewpoint to be found – we have a mixture of ex-yacht crew (captains, engineers, pursers etc), ex-commercial mariners and engineers, ex-military, and members of our team that came with no yachting experience. To me, it is a people business. Of course, we need the knowledge, but we also need to work well with our crew and owners – it’s that approach that underpins everything that we do here.”
Onboard experience is an important criterion for a yacht manager to be successful in his occupation. It is vital to understand the onboard requirements
Maxime Bregeon, the Safety and Crew Manager at Fraser, grew up in the maritime city of Saint-Nazaire, France, where he found his first job in one of the largest shipyards in Europe. Then he moved to the largest shipyard in the world in South Korea as a new building technical advisor for LNG vessel and continued his experience in China as project leader with a leading Classification society. Maxime returned to France in 2015 to survey existing Yachts for Class and Flag inspection. He joined Fraser as Safety Superintendent in 2016 before being promoted to Safety & Crew Manager. He tells us, “We have a large team of well over 50 professionals with varied backgrounds in our yacht management division, that is made up of veteran mariners, naval architects, class surveyors and administrators who have years’ of experience, working on board large vessels as well as in management positions ashore. While seagoing experience is a plus for understanding how yachts operate, the cooperation between all of us is really the key to our success, where our past experience is being put to use for efficient handling of crew, regulatory compliance and technical management.”
INTERNATIONAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT (ISM) CODE The introduction into yachting of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code brought about a fundamental change in the way superyachts operated commercially. It was this and the ISM requirement for yachts to appoint a Designated Person Ashore (DPA) that, if anything, became the stepping stone that many yacht management companies used to establish themselves as indispensable links in the superyacht industry chain.
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