Frequently Asked Questions - Ownership

Fractional ownership is shared ownership, typically of quality aircraft, yachts or real estate. One 4 Yacht Fractions provides managed fractional ownership, in that ownership, maintenance, inspection and usage issues are managed by One 4, freeing your time from normal issues of shared equipment.

 One 4 Yacht Fractions provides an excellent lifestyle alternative for families who:

• Appreciate newness, quality, and reliability
• Wish to enjoy cruising 20 – 40 days per year
• Appreciate the benefits of ownership
• Have busy schedules due to business, family, and other leisure interests
• Prefer having maintenance and other details managed by professionals

You have direct ownership of your interest and may sell it at any time. Our Owners tend to prefer a time horizon of 5-9 years, and most of our legal agreements have a term structured within this range.

Owners invest in the fractional yacht interest that best meets their yachting desires for a planned period.  We currently manage yachts with 1 to 4 owners.  Manageable budgets are established for operating items such as moorage, insurance, maintenance, repairs, management, provisioning, and/or skippering services.  Owners enjoy the yachting lifestyle with the continuous support of a team of experienced professionals and subsequently divest at the conclusion of the planned period, or sooner if plans change.

We provide comprehensive yacht management services like cleaning, security monitoring, equipment checks, underwater inspections, scheduled maintenance (such as haulouts or safety equipment inspections), unscheduled maintenance (such as repairs or ‘troubleshooting’, project management (such as equipment upgrades or replacement), contents storage, crewing services, consolidated billing, among other services.  In general we strive to make it possible for owners to focus on the enjoyment of the yachting lifestyle and not worry so much about the countless details.

Many of our clients are not residents of Vancouver or even British Columbia or even Canada.  In these cases, it is especially important for them to know that their yacht is being cared for in their absence.  We have received lots of feedback from current and past clients over the years expressing how comforting it is to know that we are around and caring for their investment as if it were our own, check our Testimonials.

Documentation is a strong point for us.  We use a combination of hard-copy checklists as well as electronic documentation which owners access via the secure password protected internal pages of our website.  Having records such as this are invaluable if and when the time comes to sell.