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The brokers

Four people work at Ashwell Foyle Yachts, and each of them carries two of the six services. Each profile below names the role, the two services it covers and the kind of enquiry it is the right starting point for.

One broker stays with a buyer or a seller from the first walk-through onward. Where a question belongs to a colleague — a rig inspection, an engine-hour check, a berth transfer — the two work it together, and nobody is handed along.

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    Principal

    Marisol Vega

    Principal broker

    Takes the first walk-through on most listings, and coordinates the off-season work on boats still on the brokerage's books.

    Marisol Vega has brokered sail and power boats on the Chesapeake for nineteen years and still walks every hull herself before it goes on the floor. She runs the first showroom viewing on most vessels, reads the engine hours and the service record out rather than summarising them, and says plainly when a boat is the wrong size for the water a buyer has described. Out of season she coordinates lay-up, cradle bookings and yard slots for owners whose boats are still listed with the brokerage. What a piece of work costs is agreed before it starts, and she makes no claim about what any vessel will be worth later.

    Ask for this role when you want a boat's history and condition read out before anyone talks about price.

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    Supporting role

    Tobias Grantham

    Listings broker

    Tobias Grantham prepares boats for the brokerage floor. That means the condition appraisal first — hull and deck, rigging age, standing and running gear, engine hours read against the service book — and then the listing itself: measured photography alongside, a written inventory, and an honest account of what the next owner will want to spend money on. He carries owner representation through to survey day, sea trial and settlement, including the berth transfer and the paperwork the yard needs. He will not put a boat on the floor at a price the appraisal does not support, and he gives no timescale for a sale he cannot control.

    Ask for this role when you are selling and want to know what the boat needs before it is photographed.

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    Supporting role

    Priya Raghunathan

    Appraisal and survey lead

    Priya Raghunathan runs the sea trials and attends the surveys. On a trial she works to the same list every time — cold start, charging output, gearbox in both directions, steering and autopilot, sail handling under way, engine hours and temperatures logged as they are read — and the notes go to the buyer whether or not they help the sale. She books the haul-out for survey, walks the yard report through with the buyer afterwards, and separates what is a defect from what is simply the age of the boat. Once a sale closes she oversees commissioning and the handover, so a new owner leaves the dock knowing where every seacock is.

    Ask for this role when something on a trial or in a survey report needs explaining before you decide.

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    Supporting role

    Nadia Ferreira

    Showroom coordinator

    Most enquiries arrive before anyone knows which boat they are about, and they land with Nadia Ferreira. She books the sixty-minute showroom viewings, arranges pontoon access and keys, and tells visitors what a first walk-through does and does not include. She schedules sea trials around the tide, the weather and the yard's lift diary, and she is the one who calls when a trial has to move. Registration documents and payment details are deliberately kept off the public form and arranged separately once a boat has been agreed.

    Ask for this role when you are not sure which of the six services your enquiry belongs to.

Who handles which enquiry

The six services are carried by the four roles below. Showroom viewing and sea trial are each covered twice, because those are the two a first enquiry most often turns out to be. A visitor may ask for a particular person through the contact form; availability is confirmed separately.

You do not know which service applies
Showroom coordinatorExplains what a first walk-through covers and what to bring aboard.
You want a boat's history and condition read out first
Principal brokerReads the service record and the engine hours with you, at no charge.
You are selling and the boat is not listed yet
Listings brokerAppraises the condition first, then photographs and writes the listing.
An offer is in and survey week is next
Appraisal and survey leadRuns the trial, books the haul-out and walks the report through with you.
The boat is bought and still needs commissioning
Appraisal and survey leadOversees the systems checks and the handover at the dock, hour by hour.
The season is over and the boat is still on the books
Principal brokerCoordinates lay-up, cradle and yard slot. No sale date is promised.

Start with a showroom viewing

It carries no charge and runs about an hour, and it ends either with a boat worth a sea trial or with a plain statement that nothing on the floor fits.

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