Diego Gomez

Yacht Consultant

Diego@WorthAvenueYachts.com 619-519-3093

Diego Gomez — Yacht Broker, Worth Avenue Yachts Seattle

Diego Gomez is a yacht broker and maritime business professional based in Seattle, Washington, serving yacht buyers and sellers throughout the Pacific Northwest, West Coast, and international yachting markets. With more than 13 years of experience in yacht sales and a broader career spanning yacht operations, management, refit, and professional yachting, Diego brings both brokerage expertise and extensive industry experience to every transaction.

Born in Mexico City and raised in California, Diego has lived and worked throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Today, he lives in Seattle with his wife, Lindsay, and their two young daughters. His international background and long-standing relationships throughout the global marine industry allow him to connect clients with an extensive network of shipyards, surveyors, captains, yacht managers, technicians, designers, and other specialists.

Prior to joining Worth Avenue Yachts, Diego spent six years with a West Coast yacht sales company, ultimately serving as Vice President of Sales and Operations. In addition to representing yacht buyers and sellers, he led a 16-person team across sales, service, and administration and helped develop marketing strategies specifically for yacht sales.

Earlier in his career, Diego served as Director of Superyacht Operations for the America’s Cup. His experience also includes yacht management, yacht refit management, marina operations, and international sailing events. This background gives him an unusually broad understanding of the yacht ownership cycle—from evaluating and purchasing a yacht through operation, maintenance, upgrades, refit, and eventual resale.

Diego is also an experienced motor yacht and sailing yacht captain. His hands-on experience aboard yachts gives him a practical perspective when advising clients on yacht design, construction, machinery, systems, performance, maintenance requirements, and operating costs. Rather than evaluating a yacht solely as a sales transaction, he considers how those characteristics will ultimately affect an owner’s experience aboard.

As a Seattle yacht broker, Diego works extensively with clients buying and selling motor yachts and cruising yachts throughout Washington, the Pacific Northwest, California, and beyond. He built his brokerage career advising clients on both new construction and brokerage acquisitions of Downeast-style yachts from Hinckley Yachts, Sabre Yachts, and Back Cove Yachts. As many of those clients progressed into larger cruising yachts, Diego developed particular expertise with Fleming Yachts, Offshore Yachts, Ocean Alexander, Nordhavn, Grand Banks Yachts, and Palm Beach Motor Yachts.

This experience allows Diego to advise clients not only on individual yachts for sale, but also on the differences between builders, models, generations, construction methods, machinery packages, equipment, performance, maintenance requirements, and long-term ownership considerations. For buyers, his work can include identifying publicly listed and off-market opportunities, comparing yachts and builders, analyzing market value, negotiating an acquisition, and coordinating surveys, sea trials, documentation, closing, and delivery. For sellers, he provides market analysis, pricing and positioning strategy, yacht preparation, marketing, buyer qualification, negotiation, and transaction management.

Diego also has experience with superyacht transactions in the 40-meter-plus market, bringing an uncommon combination of large-yacht brokerage and operational experience to clients in the Pacific Northwest and on the West Coast. His established relationships extend to leading American and European yacht builders and shipyards, including Delta Marine, Westport Yachts, Sanlorenzo, Benetti, Riva, Feadship, Heesen, and Baltic Yachts. His background in yacht management, refit, operations, and brokerage allows him to advise clients evaluating large brokerage yachts as well as custom and semi-custom new-build opportunities.

Diego’s approach to yacht brokerage is consultative and long-term. He often works as an integral advisor to individual owners, families, and family offices, with client relationships extending more than 15 years, across multiple yacht transactions and, in some cases, multiple generations of a family. Much of his business is built on repeat and referral relationships.

Whether helping a client identify the right yacht, evaluating a potential acquisition, preparing a yacht for sale, determining market value, or navigating a complex transaction, Diego’s objective is to provide informed, straightforward advice and assemble the right team around each client throughout the ownership process.

Learn more about Diego here.