WI Yachts
A broker with an itinerary-first approach: the published Phuket sailing recommendations are detailed enough to be useful even if you never book through them.
What you would not get from their own site
- Publishes route recommendations rather than only inventory, which makes it a reasonable first call if you know the dates but not the destination.
- Covers catamarans, monohulls and motor yachts, so the answer to what boat suits the route is not pre-decided by what is in stock.
- Works across Asia, so a Thailand enquiry in the wrong season can be redirected.
- Mixed contract forms. Ask for MYBA if the charter is large enough that the contract matters.
Charter licence
How this operator handles it
Brokerage across the Thai fleet. Licence position sits with each yacht.
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.
- Ask them these five
- 01What flag does the yacht fly, and is it Thai or foreign?
- 02If it is foreign-flagged and 24 metres or longer, what is the Superyacht Charter Licence reference and when does it expire?
- 03Who is the Thai fiscal representative for the charter, and are they a TYBA member agent?
- 04Will the charter agreement name the yacht, the owning company and the licence, or only the broker?
- 05Is the 7 percent Thai VAT shown separately on the invoice, and against which company's tax number?
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.