Yacht management worthy of
your superyacht.

A ship agent handles one-off events: a single port call, a customs formality, an isolated task. A yacht management firm such as Cursorio takes charge of the vessel's full operational continuity — finances, crew, ISM and MLC compliance, flag-state relations, Hull & Machinery and P&I insurance — for a monthly retainer. You deal with a single point of contact instead of a fragmented set of vendors, with a consolidated view and regular reporting adapted to superyacht governance.

Absolutely — and it is in fact the majority profile in our portfolio. Private superyachts in personal use benefit just as much, if not more, from professional management: ISM compliance is mandatory above 500 GT, crew MLC documentation must be tracked, operational costs (which run into several million euros per year at this scale) deserve optimisation, and the owner deserves administrative peace of mind. Our firm is specifically positioned on private yachts and family-office-owned vessels.

We are compensated solely through the monthly retainer of your management mandate. We do not receive any commission, referral fee, kickback or rebate from P&I clubs, class societies, shipyards or suppliers. This independence — explicitly contractualised — ensures that our recommendations remain aligned with your operational and patrimonial interests only.

The monthly retainer is calibrated to the operational complexity of the vessel: tonnage, flag, crew size and status, operating area, ownership structure, documentation intensity expected by the family office if any. For a private 50-metre superyacht under Cayman or Marshall flag, the range typically sits in the tens of thousands of euros per year, excluding external operating costs (shipyards, consumables, fuel). We provide a costed and documented quote after the entry audit, with no obligation on your part.

Yes — this is a significant share of our activity. We know how to interact with the patrimonial holdings, SPVs, trusts and multi-jurisdictional structures commonly used to own a superyacht. We document in accordance with the KYC requirements of the relevant jurisdictions and preserve the absolute discretion that such structures demand. Our exchanges can flow through the lawyers, trustees or dedicated managers of the family office at your discretion.

Our firm is located in Le Cannet, on the French Riviera. We operate primarily in the western Mediterranean (Côte d'Azur, Italy, Balearics, Corsica) and follow our principals on their seasonal routes — Caribbean, Adriatic, Atlantic — through a network of trusted local agents. The flags we routinely administer include Cayman (KY), Marshall Islands (MI), Isle of Man (IM), British Virgin Islands (VG) and France (FR).

Superyacht management is yacht management applied to large vessels — typically 40 metres and above: mandatory ISM Code above 500 GT, a permanent crew of ten to twenty, eight-figure Hull & Machinery and P&I policies, ownership frequently held through a holding company or family office. The profession is the same as for a 25-metre yacht, but the scale turns every subject into a discipline of its own: this is precisely the segment on which Cursorio concentrates its selective portfolio.

A typical day: approving invoices and tracking the budget against forecast, monitoring the vessel's certificate expiry dates and the crew's qualifications, processing payroll and SEAs, coordinating a port call or a shipyard period, watching the flag state's regulatory changes, and remaining permanently reachable for the captain and the owner. Most of the profession is invisible when done well: a yacht manager prevents problems from existing rather than repairing them.

Yes. Cursorio is based in Le Cannet, fifteen minutes from the ports of Cannes and Antibes, and operates daily along the Riviera arc — Cannes, Antibes, Monaco, Saint-Tropez, Nice. We also administer vessels based elsewhere in France (Atlantic coast, Corsica) and under the French flag: distance matters little in this profession; documentary discipline and reachability matter a great deal.

The term covers the administration of the vessel's owning structure — typically a holding company, SPV or trust: liaison with fiduciaries, trustees and registered agents, KYC documentation for the jurisdictions involved, and keeping the vessel's file aligned with the requirements of the flag registry and the auditors. Cursorio covers this interface as part of the management mandate — we work with the lawyers, trustees and dedicated managers of the owning structure — rather than selling it as a separate product.