24/7 support and personalised care. Run, managed and staffed by experienced yachtsmen with over a century of collective first-hand onboard experience. A close-knit family business guided by heritage and principles, ensuring safe, efficient, well maintained yachts, manned by professional and passionate crew.
We have been working with the owner of this luxury powerboat from the very beginning, assisting with all preliminary activities during the purchase process in Finland and organising required permits, registrations and berths before delivering her to Moscow last spring.
Once the boat was delivered, the full-time skipper was assigned to oversee all aspects of daily maintenance, troubleshooting, minor repairs and improvements as well as liaising and negotiating with suppliers of electric and mechanical parts. Regular owner trips were also planned, organised and executed. Permit extensions, winter storage arrangements and all due processes were completed before the end of the contract.
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Three years and over 10,000 nautical miles under our full management, the Fairline 65 was a true joy to work with. The daily responsibilities and duties consisted of organising guest and owner charters and necessary logistics, accounting and administration, maintenance of all systems, repairs and cleaning to make sure the boat retained her original state. We've secured best deals for spare parts deliveries and winter storage and made sure that everything has been completed according to schedule and to the highest standards of quality.
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It was a bit of a quest managing a complex delivery of this legendary sailing yacht from Antigua to French Polynesia some 6,200 nautical miles away. Our experienced crew applied their knowledge, skill and (at times) sheer tenacity, to secure a safe passage across the Pacific Ocean towards New Zealand as it was originally planned.
Mapping out the most efficient and safest route, organising logistics of permits, berths, bunkering and provisioning, and addressing technical issues and minor repairs along the way. The owner who joined our crew on various legs of the journey had the time of his life.
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Our team had a great experience managing this spirited, brand new sailing yacht for two summer seasons taking the full range of responsibilities covering daily maintenance, minor repairs, improvements and winter servicing as well as all aspects of charter management that included organising permits and insurance, full-time crew placement and management, strategic marketing and advertising as well as owner's trips and special requests during their usage time.
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We were contacted by an adventurous owner who was looking for experienced crew to pilot his sailing yacht in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC). We eagerly jumped on the opportunity to exercise our racing pedigree and flew to Las Palmas to begin working on preparations for this legendary race.
After minor maintenance and improvements the boat was ready to set sail, but not before the winning strategies were planned and plotted, bar and fridges stocked and owner's friends trained and prepared for an ambitious dash across the Atlantic 3,100 nautical miles towards Saint Lucia, where we arrived 4th in our group 12 days later.
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“ I am very happy with the V&S Team, a high level professionals that provided yacht mangement services in the past 2 years . My boat looks and feels just like new and runs like clockwork. I had a peace of mind and enjoyed every moment spent onboard with my friends and family while the crew responsibly carried out their duties.”
Gennadiy, Boat Owner
Sealine F42
“ For over 3 years, I have been confident leaving my boat under supervision of the V&S Team in Croatia and Montenegro. The crew took a good care of all ongoing maintenance and repair projects, organised my regular trips, helped sorting out running costs and took care of the boat during the winter. Would recommend them to all! ”
Tomas, Boat Owner
Fairline 65
“ I'd just like to say a big thank you to the V&S team and crew. Every aspect of the management has been handled with the utmost professionalism. It will be a pleasure to work with you again should an opportunity arise in the future. ”
Fabio, Boat Owner
Falcon 115’s
“ I would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for a very successful delivery. On handover the yacht was in excellent condition and we were pleased that the crew had a safe trip amidst difficult conditions and arrived on schedule ”
Kaspar, Sailing.ee, Director
Bavaria 50
Our expertise and knowledge encompasses all aspects of yacht management, including the application and thorough understanding of rules and regulations, technical expertise, human resources and training, reliable administration, commercial awareness, and the more subjective factors of yacht ownership.
Whether your boat is motor or sail, superyacht or family cruiser, and whatever the requirements, our team is well-suited to provide a wide range of services specifically designed and perfected to address the most important issues associated with yacht ownership and maintenance, thus enhancing your experience while taking care of your precious asset anywhere in the world.
With a vast portfolio of commercial and private clients, including some of the world's most renowned boat manufacturers and brands, charter companies and brokers as well as hundreds of selective owners around the world, we are dedicated to maintaining and exceeding the highest standards of management, service and professionalism with each and every yacht under our care.
Our close-knit team consists of master mariners, Yachtmaster instructors, engineers, charter and crew managers, accountants and operations personnel, all working together to provide the highest level of support and assistance to first-time and experienced owners.
By structuring management services specifically designed to suit each yacht's intended operation and usage, we can assure every client's requirements are met and anticipated.
Juri began his career after completing his master's degree in the Rostov on Don Maritime College as a skipper-technician. Gaining invaluable experience as a navigator for Estrybprom and sailing the farthest corners of the globe for half a decade, he moved to Tallinn, the sailing capital of USSR at the time, to pursue his passion in yacht racing.
By the 1978 he has been contracted for a full-time position to oversee the maintenance and skippering of a private yacht of a foreign minister, quickly making the name for himself as the go-to person for practical advise and expertise in yacht management. Juri continued participating in sailing competitions, in fact, just until recently, while gaining a wealth of first-hand experience managing, building, repairing and delivering most types of sailing and motor yachts, fist in the Baltic region, and then worldwide. He began teaching in the Tallinn Maritime Academy in 1987, taking his two sons - Anton and Juri - under his stern tutelage as soon as they could walk.
Juri soon founded his first company, Vetashev & Co, offering services and expertise building and managing sailing yachts in Tallinn. After 5 years of successful operations in Estonia, Juri and his team began offering a wide range of services and yachting solutions to international clients from the UK, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Spain, France and many others. By the year 2,000 the company was responsible for over a hundred successfully delivered and managed yachts, between 30 and 120 feet, worldwide.
The oldest of two sons, Anton began his sailing career as a deckhand in his early teens, already with few years of sailing experience under his belt thanks to Juri's insistence on bringing him along on various sea voyages around the world. By then he was actively competing in racing events nationally and internationally, taking first places in multiple categories throughout his teen years. His sailing experience and outgoing personality secured him plenty of job offers outside his father's company and by the age of 18 he began delivering and managing medium-sized yachts around the world independently as well as for his father's firm.
In 2011, while completing his official course for commercially endorsed Yacht Master Offshore certification in the UK, his was invited for the position of RYA instructor after passing his practical navigation exams with such precision that hasn't been recorded for the past hundred years. He continues with his senior management duties at the V&S overseeing the training and operations of our pool of skippers and crew around the world.
Anton is a gifted teacher with a knack for navigation and engineering. His innovative management style and enchanting personality ensure that our skippers and crew are always steered and nurtured towards developing their individual talents and strengths to the highest standards while being led by example in all conditions.
Being a youngest son in a very competitive family, Juri Jr. always had to work twice as hard and learn fast to keep up with his boisterous older brother and father. Out at sea as soon as he could walk he have taken after his father with his calm manner and calculated decision-making in toughest of conditions. He began helping his brother delivering and managing boats in his early teens, as a deckhand and then a first mate, while competing in yacht racing across multiple classes.
Taking a break from the career in yachting to complete his degree in International Relations in 2006 and then to gain a first-hand experience running and managing various businesses in South-East Asia, he returned to the family firm with the intention and vision of revitalising the company, expand operations and services and oversee the launch of the charter division.
Today Juri Jr. is responsible for overseeing operations of various technical and maintenance teams across Russia and the Baltic region liaising with factories, suppliers and shipyards to make sure each boat receives the attention and the level of service required to achieve desired results according to schedule.A childhood friend of both Vetashev brothers, Zeka has studied yachting with them at an early age, racing Optimist and then Finn class boats before moving to the UK. Completing his college degree in London he soon founded his first business out of the UK, consulting on bilateral economic relationships and investments between the EU and the CIS countries.
His taste for adventure and surfing eventually took him to Indonesia where he founded and managed successful business ventures in real estate, infrastructure asset management and Internet startups.
But his love for the sea and yachting remained strong and he soon found himself back with his childhood friends and now business partners, assuming a management position at V&S, overseeing business development, strategy and overall operations across divisions while training for his own Yachtmaster qualifications