Sales
Buy or sell a yacht
Central agency representation, valuation and discreet negotiation — with the same brokers who have handled these boats for decades.
Destinations
Find Your Horizon
Six cruising grounds we know intimately. Start with the water you want under you; we will find the yacht that belongs there.
West Mediterranean
Riviera evenings, Corsican coves, dinner ashore and back aboard by midnight.
East Mediterranean
Greek islands at anchor, ruins at first light, water flat as glass by eight.
Caribbean
Trade winds, empty sand, a fortnight with nothing on the calendar.
New England
Newport to Nantucket. Cool mornings, working harbors, our own front door.
South East Asia
Limestone islands, warm rain, anchorages that few yachts ever reach.
Oceania
Whitsunday sand and reef water — distance that makes the arrival count.
Charter
Serving Discerning Clients Since 1949
Seventy-five years of the same work: putting the right people on the right boat, and staying with them long after the paperwork is signed.
The house was founded in 1949 and has been broking, chartering and managing yachts ever since — from Newport, Rhode Island, a town that has kept its own place in the sport for just as long.
- Founded
- 1949
- On the water
- 75+ years
- Home port
- Newport, RI
Available this season
Aurelius
A sailing yacht for people who would rather be under canvas — long passages, quiet anchorages, a crew that reads the day before you ask.
- Length
- 33.8 m
- Type
- Sailing yacht
- From
- $64,000 per week
Rates exclude APA and VAT
Featured yacht for sale
Hampshire
A Feadship kept to Feadship standards. Full ownership history and survey material available to qualified buyers on request.
- Length
- 65.9 m
- Built
- 2016 · Feadship
- Asking
- €85,000,000
Why Nicholson
Trusted · Experienced · Discreet
Trusted since 1949
Three generations of clients have come back to the same firm. Most of our work still arrives by introduction.
Newport, Rhode Island
We work from a town built on sail, and we charter and sell worldwide from it — season after season.
Personal, discreet service
One broker, start to finish. Nothing about your charter or your yacht leaves this office.
- 1949
- Year founded
- 75+
- Years on the water
- 18
- Cruising regions
- 12,000+
- Charters arranged
Associations & partnerships
Clients, not customers
Charter guests, captains and owners — most of whom have been with us for decades.
“I've cruised aboard Nicholson charters from Maine to Martinique to the Seychelles as a boating journalist. Every yacht was different, every experience first-rate.”
“Always excellent — detail-oriented, fiscally responsible, and on time.”
“A hassle-free boat-buying experience from the first conversation to handing over the keys.”
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Notes from the water
Contact
Speak with a broker
Tell us the season, the coastline and the number aboard. We will come back with two or three yachts worth your time.