All applications are reviewed by YBAA's Membership Committee, which reserves the right to accept or reject any application for any reason. All eligible applicants are accepted on a 12-month provisional and conditional basis and may have their membership privileges revoked if it is deemed by the Board of Directors that the company does not meet the eligibility requirements.
Membership Types:
Affiliate Member: Business entities (such as corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships) that provide specific products and/or services of value to the members of the Association, and who support the Association’s mission and purpose while not being directly engaged in the business of yacht brokerage.
Corporate Member: Any sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation legitimately established and engaged in the full time practice of selling yachts on a co-brokerage basis who meets, or agrees to comply with, the following:
- Company or principal of company has been in the full time business of yacht brokerage for less than one year prior to application,
- Principal and all of the firm’s authorized Corporate Member brokers (1) have never been denied, nor had revoked, any professional yacht broker license(s) and (2) currently hold all necessary license(s) required by all applicable governmental entities, and (3) have not been convicted of a felony within the past seven years.
- Ensure that all business conducted by the company and its brokers (including employees, independent contractors, etc.) complies in full with the Association’s Code of Ethics,
- Pay, in a timely manner, all appropriate annual dues, based on the total number of brokers in the firm, and,
- Provide as reference, a minimum of four active yacht brokerage firms with whom you have participated in brokerage sales.
To be accepted, all submissions must include all the information below: