Brokers, not salesmen.
A boutique brokerage for serious cruisers, founded in 2004 by Sharon and Jack Malatich. Twenty years on, six harbours, four decades of brokering — and the same conviction we started with.
We started with a conviction: the right broker is part counsel, part cruiser, and part craftsman. That has not changed in twenty years, and it will not change in the next twenty.
S&J Yachts is a boutique full-service brokerage representing serious cruisers and offshore sailors along the entire Atlantic seaboard. We are authorised dealers for Southerly, Bavaria, Makai, Dufour Cervetti and Fratelli Aprea — and we broker the most discerning pre-owned fleet on the coast. From Annapolis to Palmetto, every harbour office is staffed by brokers who own boats, race boats, and cruise the same waters as their clients.
Sharon & Jack Malatich
The map of the brokerage
- 1996
Brokering since
Jack Malatich begins brokering cruising yachts on the Chesapeake — long before there is an S&J. The conviction that fixes the trade in his head: a broker must own boats and sail them.
- 2004
S&J Yachts founded
Sharon and Jack Malatich open S&J Yachts in Annapolis. From day one the house is built around two principles — represent yachts that we would buy ourselves, and stand behind every listing we take.
- Southerly
Authorised dealerships
S&J becomes the East-coast representative for Southerly Yachts — the variable-draft cruiser that can take the thin water of the Bahamas and the open ocean alike. Other dealerships follow: Bavaria, Makai, Fratelli Aprea, Dufour Cervetti.
- Growth
Down the seaboard
Offices open at Rock Hall, Deltaville, and New Bern. The map of the brokerage matches the map of the seaboard — wherever cruisers winter, refit, or commission, an S&J broker is on the dock.
- Six harbours
Charleston & Palmetto
Two final harbours — Charleston, South Carolina and Palmetto, Florida — round out the network. Six offices from Maine to the Gulf, all staffed by brokers who own and sail the boats they sell.
- Today
The house, twenty years on
We remain a boutique brokerage in a market increasingly dominated by chains and lead-generation engines. We answer the phone on weekends, photograph our own listings, and walk every dock at every show. The argument with the sea is long; we choose to argue carefully.
We do not chase volume. We chase the kind of buyer and the kind of boat that we would invite into our own berth — and we walk the docks until we find them.