View From The Desk – September 2025

The jobs market is about to start hotting up! If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. As you sit browsing our newsletter this month you’re likely either at a boat show or taking a short break between shows to catch up on your emails. The SYR team are travelling...

The SYR Guide to September Yacht Shows

It’s the first of September and that can only mean one thing… it’s boat show month!!! We love getting out amongst our networks both here in the UK and abroad with much of the SYR team expected to be available to meet in person. So, we thought it a great idea to give you a taste of where...

View From The Desk – August 2025

Your summer SYR newsletter If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. We hope you’re all enjoying your summer breaks. Lounging by the pool, catching up on some DIY or considering your next career move?!? With hot weather predicted across the EU this summer we’ve...

Announcing Our Educational Partnership With David Seal

Next in our series of education and CPD partners series is an individual many in yachting will recognise! A couple of years ago David Seal launched the Yacht Broker Masterclass. We alone receive hundreds of enquiries from budding brokers keen to get their foot in the door of the brokerage world....

View From The Desk – July 2025

We’re halfway there! The SYR Mid-Year Report If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Welcome to the second half of 2025. Where’s the time gone? It feels like yesterday we were ringing in the new year and now we’re about to embark on the summer...

View From The Desk – June 2025

The SYR Journey Continues – New Appointment If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. As we reach June, SYR are riding the crest of a wave. Our strong start to the year continues with a flurry of placements across yacht management, yacht design and skilled...

View From The Desk – May 2025

Definitely May-be If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Welcome to the May edition of the SYR newsletter. We write this having recently returned from the Palma Boat Show (check out our show report here) and with a continued optimism that this level of work is...

PIBS 2025 Event Report

Yacht show silly season has begun. In the space of a week the industry hosts the MYBA Charter Show, PIBS, the World Superyacht Awards and MEDYS. The hardy few take on all four, the sensible among us attempt to visit one or two. For SYR, it was our fourth visit to our favourite Balearic island....

View From The Desk – April 2025

Setting New Standards – The SYR Newsletter If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. What a start to 2025. We’re still reeling from a first quarter that set a new record for us here at SYR. With three very strong months, we’re tracking well ahead of...

Introducing our latest educational partner: Navalapp

Introducing our latest educational partner, Navalapp. We’re incredibly excited to announce our latest partnership with Navalapp, a fantastic source of training and education across the design, naval architecture and engineering space. Offering a huge range of extra-curricular courses I subjects...

View From The Desk – March 2025

Maritime Recruitment on a high? If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Two months completed in 2025 and SYR are reaching new highs. We’ve ended February 25% up on last year, a start which in itself was the best in our company history and isn’t showing signs...

Ed’s Solent Swim Fundraiser

Ed is raising money for West Wight Sports & Community Centre Trust Limited Solent Swim 2025 Not content with the Ultra Marathon that I attempted in 2024, this year I’m swimming the width of The Solent in aid of the West Wight Sport & Community Centre. Each year I choose a sporting...

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