MARINE CONSULTING
Marine Consulting combines the experience and knowledge you need, to do nothing else but enjoy your yacht ownership. Professional planning, dedication to detail, synchronizing of all related processes and driving stakeholders interests makes the difference between satisfaction and nightmare.
Marine Consulting MC – 70 years cumulated experience at your service
YACHT MANAGEMENT
Fed up with cost in-transparency, pay-or-die – or yet another out of service situation of your yacht?
Marine Consulting offers boutique-style Yacht Management services to a handful of owners.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Whether building, converting, refitting, or repairing a yacht – professional Project Management is required to be aware of all possible bottlenecks when first decisions are to be made. We, at Marine Consulting are 25 years in the industry, have seen it all and pride ourselves at having delivered more than 50 projects to happy yacht owners. Many of them repeat customers.
NEWBUILD MANAGEMENT
Our services often start from the early days, when supporting the owner with the definition of the yachts´ main characteristics and tendering the project to a handful of suitable yards, and/or designers; followed by contract – and specification review with the yard; defining the adequate outfit; as well as establishing of mile stones. During the build phase, we act as Owner´s representatives towards the yard, to assure full compliance with contract and specification. Our project-specifically contracted technicians will follow the construction onsite. Upon delivery, our Newbuild Management packages include the supervision of sea trials and functioning tests including the issuance of non compliance lists and advise on compensation or post delivery remediation scenarios.
REFIT / REPAIR / CONVERSION MANAGEMENT
Whenever yard time is at stake, be it for class renewal; maintenance and repair; new paint; or conversion, our experience, knowledge and contacts to the industry will assure time schedules are kept and you get what you pay for.
MARINE SURVEYS
As independent Marine Surveyors specialized in Leisure – and Superyachts, we offer our 25 years of experience to Yacht Insurers, Underwriters, Brokers and Owners.
INSURANCE SURVEYS
Claim Adjustment and on site claim management is our bread and butter business.
We pride ourselves on many years continuous appointments by the market leading insurers.
CONDITION SURVEYS
As yacht enthusiasts, in the industry for more years than the average age of the global yacht-park, we know exactly what to look for when assessing the condition of whatever yacht.
Our detailed and conclusive reports, are often the essential document when buying a yacht.
VALUATION SURVEYS
Ascertaining the value of a yacht, whether for sale, mortgage or insurance purpose, is yet another core competence of Marine Consulting. As fully independent surveyors our Valuation Surveys are made for nothing else but to protect the interest of our customer.
PAINT SURVEYS
Through our recently established cooperation with a yacht paint specialist, we can now tackle paint topics inhouse, and offer Paint Surveys as stand alone- or as part of the other Marine Consulting services to our clients.
TEAM
MICHAEL KURTZ
Before becoming a Trademark in the international Yacht Industry, Michael studied political ecomomics and had his own yacht repair and charter business in the north of Germany.
In 1984, Michael joined Pantaenius Yacht Insurance. From a previous key client, he transformed to become the relentless protagonist of Pantaenius` international growth.
Mid 90ties, he moved to Southern France to establish Pantaenius Monaco. 25 years research and investigation into questionable yacht insurance claims, with a track record of disclosing fraud on 350 + apparently sunken or stolen yachts, brought him the nickname of “Mike the Gun”.
Michael is also a critically acclaimed Yacht Photographer – see his work at https://www.michaelkurtzphoto.com/ and on his Instagram.
As founding partner, Michael knows exactly who needs to be engaged when things get difficult.
STEFANO RUSCITTI
Stefano serves the yachting industry since 25 years as Marine Surveyor, Yachtmanager and Project Supervisor.
He studied naval architecture in Genoa and developed his hanseatic business mentality based on trust, honesty and reliability in the early nineties, when working with Pantaenius Yachtinsurance in Hamburg.
After 11 years with his Genoa based Yacht Consultancy Seametria SRL, he founded Marine Consulting MC in Monaco in 2014.
