Yacht management

A planned maintenance system tracked against manufacturer intervals rather than memory — so a service interval never gets discovered by something failing at sea. We schedule and attend annual and special surveys with the Indian Register of Shipping and Mercantile Marine Department, manage haul-out and antifouling at your home port or a yard we trust, and vet every contractor before they touch your boat.

A technical issue at anchor off Alibaug at 6pm on a Saturday is a different problem from the same issue in a workshop on Monday morning. Our technical desk is reachable outside office hours for exactly that reason, and every job — routine or urgent — goes into the same maintenance record so the boat's history is never scattered across three people's memories.

We run a dedicated account for every vessel we manage, with a monthly statement showing hours run, work carried out and spend against an agreed budget — the same statement, every month, so you can compare year on year rather than decode a fresh format each time. GST-compliant invoicing is standard, and nothing above your agreed threshold is spent without your sign-off first.

A safety management system covering scheduled drills, pre-departure checklists and life-saving equipment audits, run to the same discipline commercial operators use even though most of the boats we manage are privately registered. Life jackets, life rafts and firefighting equipment are serviced on a tracked schedule, not when someone remembers.

Mumbai's coastal waters carry security protocols most owners never learn about until they're mid-application — Coast Guard and marine police registration, biometric identity cards for crew, and reporting requirements that apply whether the boat leaves the marina once a year or every weekend. We hold this paperwork current so a security check never becomes the reason a trip gets cancelled.

Crew can be employed directly by you with us administering payroll and compliance, or engaged through Saildeck entirely — most owners with any charter use choose the second, because it removes the employer's liability from their own name. Either way, PF, ESI and labour-law compliance, leave and rotation, training records and welfare standards are all managed centrally, with one line to us for anything crew-related rather than three separate departments to chase.

We source captains, engineers, deckhands and stewards from our own network across Mumbai and Goa rather than an open listing, and every candidate is certificate-checked, medically cleared and reference-checked before they're shortlisted to you. Skippers are matched to your specific vessel and how you actually use it — a family day-sailor and a charter-earning motor yacht want different temperaments at the helm — and we arrange a trial period before anything becomes permanent.

Fleet-wide purchasing volume gets you better rates on spares and consumables than a single owner sourcing alone, and a dedicated procurement desk means the three-vendor chase for one gasket is our problem, not yours. Parts that aren't stocked in India are handled through import logistics we already run for the fleet, with a quality check on anything before it's fitted — and an emergency-sourcing route when the boat genuinely needs to sail tomorrow.

We place hull, machinery and liability cover with marine insurers who actually underwrite Indian coastal risk rather than treat it as an afterthought to a global policy, and add passenger liability where a vessel is registered for charter. Cover is reviewed annually as the boat's use or condition changes, renewals are tracked so nothing lapses unnoticed, and if you ever need to claim, we handle the negotiation rather than leaving you to do it alone at the worst possible moment.