Defined by independence
Anthony Austin Yachts exists for one reason: to put a voice in the room, at every stage of a superyacht purchase, that works only for the buyer. Not the seller, not the shipyard, not a brokerage.
UK Based | Worldwide Coverage | Fiercely Independent
Who we are
Anthony Austin Yachts provides independent buyer representation to private individuals and families, family offices, and the private banks and wealth managers who advise them, at the point where they're considering, negotiating, or taking delivery of a superyacht.
The purpose is simple: to be the independent judgement in a process where almost everyone else in the room, from the selling broker to the shipyard, is aligned to moving the sale rather than protecting the buyer. Anthony Austin Yachts aims to be the specialist a buyer, or the advisor sitting alongside them, turns to at every stage of that decision, wherever in the world the purchase is happening and whatever kind of yacht they have in mind.
The work we do
The work takes two forms, depending on what a buyer actually needs.
Individual Advisory Sessions
For buyers who don't need the full process. A single session to review a yacht under consideration, challenge assumptions before an offer, prepare for a viewing, or get an experienced second opinion.
Full Acquisition Mandate
A structured process alongside a buyer: narrowing down what ownership should actually look like, targeting the right yachts, then carrying that through due diligence, negotiation, and the transition into confident ownership.
What connects both is the same standard. Advice starts with what's right for the buyer, not what happens to be available to sell, and the specification sheet and the brochure photographs are treated as the beginning of the question, not the answer to it.
What we think
Anthony writes and speaks regularly on the parallel between how private banks and family offices think about governance, succession, and the use of outside specialists, and how the same discipline applies to a decision as significant and infrequent as buying a superyacht.
The starting point is usually the same gap: families and advisors who apply real rigor to investment and succession decisions, but have no equivalent structure in place for a purchase that can run into eight figures and affect three generations. That thinking is published as articles and LinkedIn commentary rather than kept as an internal view, on the basis that a buyer or advisor should be able to see how Anthony reasons about a purchase before they ever engage him on one.
The experience behind it
Anthony holds a UK Master Mariner Unlimited qualification and brings close to two decades of operational maritime experience across demanding commercial environments worldwide — the same command-level discipline that governs how a vessel is handled, how risk is assessed, and how technical and safety documentation is read critically rather than taken at face value. Anthony Austin Yachts is represented within British Marine and Superyacht UK.
Fiercely independent, from the first conversation to delivery.
For buyers, family offices, and the advisors who represent them, at any stage of a superyacht purchase.