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Northrop & Johnson (SEA)

The international superyacht brokerage with a Phuket office, and the one Phuket operator with a documented seat on the Thai Yachting Business Association board. This is the top of the market: named hulls, MYBA contracts, seven nights and up.

What you would not get from their own site

  • On the TYBA board for over a decade, which is the only publicly documented association seat among the operators listed here. TYBA members are the channel through which Thai charter licences are actually applied for.
  • A brokerage, not an owner. It does not have a fleet of its own; it places yachts belonging to other owners, which means the yacht you are shown is chosen from the whole market rather than from an inventory.
  • Works on MYBA contracts, the standard charter agreement in the international market. That is worth having: it fixes what APA covers, who carries the risk and how a cancellation is settled.
  • Seven nights is the practical minimum. If you want three, this is not the right desk.

Charter licence

How this operator handles it

A global brokerage placing owners' yachts. Thai charters run through the licensed structure the yacht's management holds, and the brokerage handles the paperwork chain.

Not on public record means no public statement was found. It is not a claim that a licence is missing, and the two are genuinely different. The licence belongs to the individual yacht and its management company, so inside one fleet the answer changes from hull to hull. What the licence covers.

  1. Ask them these five
  2. 01What flag does the yacht fly, and is it Thai or foreign?
  3. 02If it is foreign-flagged and 24 metres or longer, what is the Superyacht Charter Licence reference and when does it expire?
  4. 03Who is the Thai fiscal representative for the charter, and are they a TYBA member agent?
  5. 04Will the charter agreement name the yacht, the owning company and the licence, or only the broker?
  6. 05Is the 7 percent Thai VAT shown separately on the invoice, and against which company's tax number?

5 listings available through Northrop & Johnson (SEA)

  • A 37 metre motor superyacht at anchor in tropical water
    Representative image
    SuperyachtNamed yacht

    Octave

    Sanlorenzo, 2018

    LOA
    37 m
    Guests
    10
    Cabins
    5
    Crew
    7

    A 37 metre Sanlorenzo from 2018 with five cabins and seven crew, one of the larger hulls that stays in Thai waters through the season rather than visiting for a few weeks.

    from $14,900

    per day

    Ao Po Grand Marina

  • A large white superyacht under way in the Andaman Sea
    Representative image
    SuperyachtNamed yacht

    Song of Songs

    Not published, 2022

    LOA
    42 m
    Guests
    12
    Cabins
    6
    Crew
    9

    A 42 metre, six-cabin superyacht delivered in 2022 and listed for Thai charter, at the size where twelve guests is the legal ceiling rather than a design choice.

    Rate on application

    Ao Po Grand Marina

  • Large luxury sailing catamaran at anchor with the tender alongside
    Representative image
    CatamaranClass listing

    Sunreef 80

    Sunreef Yachts

    LOA
    24 m
    Guests
    12
    Cabins
    5
    Crew
    5

    The luxury catamaran answer to a superyacht: twenty-four metres of beam-heavy platform with superyacht volume, shallow draught for the limestone anchorages, and the 24 metre length that puts it exactly on the Thai charter licence threshold.

    from $90,000

    per week

    Ao Po Grand Marina

  • Italian motor yacht at anchor in clear water
    Representative image
    Motor yachtClass listing

    Sanlorenzo SL96

    Sanlorenzo

    LOA
    29.2 m
    Guests
    10
    Cabins
    5
    Crew
    5

    Just under thirty metres, which is the last size below the point where the Thai charter licence question becomes unavoidable for a foreign-flagged hull.

    from $88,000

    per week

    Ao Po Grand Marina

  • Expedition-style yacht with a dark hull at anchor off an undeveloped island
    Representative image
    ExplorerClass listing

    Explorer yacht, 30 metres and up

    Various

    LOA
    32 m
    Guests
    12
    Cabins
    6
    Crew
    9

    The steel or aluminium displacement hull with range, tankage and a real dive setup. This is the class that runs Mergui, where there is no fuel dock, no chandlery and no charted anchorage to fall back on.

    from $145,000

    per week

    Ao Po Grand Marina

Routes they run, and in which version

Operators rarely run an identical itinerary. The variant matters more than the name: a four-night version of a five-night route has dropped a destination, and it is usually the furthest one.

How this profile was written

From public sources: the operator's own website, published rates and itineraries, and marina and association listings. Nothing on this page comes from the operator reviewing it first, and nothing on it was paid for.

Where a fact is not publicly stated, the profile says so instead of guessing. If you operate this business and something here is wrong or has changed, the methodology page explains how corrections are made.