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Tim Morley, founder of Morley Yachts, started his yachting career on board the motor yacht LEANDER, where he worked as a crew between 1997 and 2000. At the time LEANDER was considered, without doubt, to be the best charter yacht in the world.

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From the beginnings of Morley Yachts in 2005, we brought people together on board yachts, recognising that the business was about relationship building and partnerships.

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Morley Yachts is equally adept at charter and sales of both sailing yachts and motor yachts. Here are just a few examples of yachts we have arranged charters on (the tally is now well over 100 large yacht charters).

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We also understand that the crew are in many ways more important than the yacht itself. The Morley Yachts team spent a great deal of time over the years meeting the crew. We try to get to know them, to be able to match the right crew with the guests. A good crew is more important than a good yacht when it comes to the overall experience. This is an old crew photo, and I don’t like the fact that they are wearing sun glasses, but the Captain is one of the great characters of our industry and he always puts together a fun crew.

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Morley Yachts has never been afraid to respond to opportunities as they arise and “think outside the box”. The most notable examples of this were the opening of an office in Tunisia in 2009 and the creation of Morley Group and Morley Asset Management for the purpose of marketing Marina Bizerte and management of a marina in Djerba. Morley Yachts had an office in Sidi Bou Said, in the picturesque village adjacent to Carthage.

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In 2014 Morley started to learn about yacht new construction, with a large ‘fully custom’ yacht construction project of over 100m in length. Putting together the right team, and developing the project was a great challenge, and we enjoyed working with the client to put together a ‘bid package’ to take to multiple shipyards, to carefully identify the best solution. We took no commission on such a deal, and we charged a fair monthly fee.

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Morley Yachts is now the Central Agent for the charter of three of the world’s finest yachts. CHRISTINA O, ANNA I and ST DAVID are marketed for charter by us and we are proud to have been involved in the development of their branding and marketing communication. The success of these yachts for charter is a credit to the marketing team and our relationship with partner brokers who have brought clients to charter the yachts. The yacht ST DAVID achieved 20 weeks of charter over a 12 month period; and CHRISTINA O has had her most successful season ever in her long history.

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Organising charters in unique parts of the world is something we do more and more. As well as charters in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Mediterranean, we have arranged charters in Thailand, Myanmar, the Maldives, Cuba, and now the incredible destination of Antarctica. We have visited Chile to understand what is possible cruising in Patagonia. Yachts are built for exploring and we love to help arranging such adventures.

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Morley Yachts remains a privately owned and operated business with a healthy balance sheet, zero borrowing, no investors and complete independence. We look forward to offering clients the benefit of our experience, and our hard work for many years to come.