Amantha Yacht Sales & Managment

Amantha Yacht Sales and Management was founded in 2012 by Niles Pearsall. At an early age Niles realized that although the birth of his two children were extremely joyous occasions in his life the happiest two days were the day he sold his trawler and the day he acquired his Amantha. This concept led him to the idea that he wanted to assist others on their possibly two happiest days ever; selling a boat as well as buying one. Therefore, he became a yacht broker and learned all he could about yachts and how to tell what kind of shape they were in. 

Later in life he created a small charter company and he sailed the Amantha around the Caribbean islands. The Amantha is a 36 foot Crocker with an all wood hull. After the Amantha was damaged on the hard in a boat yard incident. Niles spent a year restoring her and found his passion of providing high quality service, maintenance and management to yachts. He wanted to provide boat owners with a higher quality of supervision to minimize accidents and mishaps; thus maintaining the vessels in the best shape possible. He combined his love of assisting others on their happiest of days and his passion for high quality boat maintenance and established Amantha Yacht Sales and Management L.L.C. to help others in the pursuit of yacht buying, selling as well as upkeep.

A lucky man, Pierre-James grew up in French Polynesia, on the magnificent island of Bora-Bora. Learning to sail at a young age in one of the most beautiful lagoon's in the world. Education being limited on island, he had to leave to study. It took him all the way to Europe. When it came time to return, he felt his adventure away from home wasn't quite over. In 2012 he got inspired to hitchhike across the Atlantic, with absolutely no offshore experience, a little crazy yes!

After surviving the formation of a hurricane in the middle of the ocean, he made land fall in the British Virgin Island, where he started living and working as maintenance tech on sailboats for a charter company. Later moved to St.Thomas, doing all sorts of jobs related to boats, from canvas work to sailing instructor at the St.Thomas Yacht Club, later again working as a shipwright for Yacht Carpentry Plus, all custom repair jobs and fine woodworking. For the past 2 years he has been a captain for the Sea Base St.Thomas offering the youth from Boy Scouts of America an incredible trip around St.John in the summer time.

With now over 10 years of experience in the marine industry, Pierre-James felt confident he could assist people with the acquisition and selling of their boat(s).