Master Yacht Services

Master Yacht Services is a boat maintenance and servicing company based in Golfe-Juan, at Port Camille Rayon. It works along the whole Riviera, from Mandelieu to Menton, with Cannes, Golfe-Juan, Mandelieu and Antibes as its main areas. The team is made up of professionals with more than ten years of experience in the trade and favours environmentally friendly products.

Annual careening is the core of the business: hull cleaning, application of underwater paint and replacement of anodes. The workshop offers several families of antifouling, eroding, semi-eroding and hard matrix, chosen according to the owner's cruising programme, as well as Sea Coat, a silicone-based underwater paint announced with a ten-year service life. Cleaning and inspection of the hull afloat is carried out by a diver.

Hull stripping is performed by dust-free soda blasting: paint chips are vacuumed, collected and then taken to a waste facility. Traditional soda blasting and wet blasting are also available. The company states that stripping back to bare hull is needed at least every five years, unless an eroding antifouling was chosen from the outset. Polishing and buffing follows three stages, polishing with abrasive compound, buffing with a finishing cream, then hand finishing with wax and microfibre, using 3M products and, where the surface condition calls for it, light sanding of the gelcoat. Fibreglass and gelcoat repair and nano protection (glass and ceramic coating) complete the range.

Alongside these trades, Master Yacht Services provides washing and interior cleaning, boat staging, coaching on use and maintenance, remote monitoring and guarding, with subscription plans for ongoing upkeep. The company is a partner of the LiveYacht network and its work has been covered by La Tribune, Voiles et Voiliers, Nice Matin, France 3 and France Bleu Azur.