YYachts Norway / YYACHTS

It's all about sailing experiences, fun and passion for the sea

Espen Øksby has grown up with boats since he was a small boy, having most of my vacations at sea during his childhood. When Espen was a child, at age of 7 years old started sailing Optimist, then experienced windsurfers and Yngling from high school on.

From the early years of sailing Optimist, the feeling of manage, travel and sail using the wind forces, gave root to a lifelong passion. After college, Espen moved on to active regatta sailing with larger sail yachts from 34, 36, 42 and 52 feet. In the early stages of his working life, worked in sailing summer camps for children as a sail and boat instructor.

Growing up he moved to bigger boats and luxury Yachts, in the last 10 years he has been promoting and selling sail yachts all around the Scandinavia area.

Today Espen is a member of the The Royal Norwegian Yacht Club, KNS, Kongelig Norsk Seilforening. Actively attending regattas with Yngling boats, at his local Yacht Club. Over the years he won some regattas, and competitions… but fun, passion for the sea and freedom are the drivers that make him enjoy the wonderful world of sailing.

YYachts Norway Espen Øksby sail boat racing

He is a trustworthy and highly competent person in the nautical field, hard-working, friendly, attentive to details, quality and service for customers.

Currently, he is located in Oslo and he has been working as an experienced partner in an international investment bank. In addition, he has always strived to combine this activity with his passion for fast cruising sailing and luxurious superyachts.

He is a passionate sailor and since he was child fell in love with the sea and outdoor life.

Norway is the perfect location for outdoor living and sailing, even if the summer season is shorter than in the Med. But with endless Midsummer nights and hidden location Norway is a fantastic sailing area to spend the summer at.

Official preferred partner of YYachts for Norway

fast cruising and luxurious superyachts

Espen Øksby always strived to combine his activity with passion for fast cruising sailing and luxurious superyachts.

passion for fast sailing carbon boats

From the early years of sailing Optimist, the feeling of manage, travel and sail using the wind forces, gave root to a lifelong passion.

attentive to details, quality and service

Espen is a highly competent person in the nautical field, friendly, attentive to details, quality and service for customers.

YYachts Norway are focused on providing an extraordinary service to our customers and clients with a focus on long-term relationships

Over the years Espen Øksby worked in the financial industry for most of his life together with promoting and selling activities for Sail yachts for the last 10 years. He is a managing partner in a boutique investment bank, mostly involved in cross-border M&A and he has represented Brenta Yachts from Italy as a Norwegian agent for 10 years.

Nowadays Espen Øksby has established E-Yachts a company for the promotion and sales of YYachts luxury carbon yachts in Norway. He manages the company in close cooperation with the experienced sailor Mr Christen With and his reputable company With Marina AS that provides all the needed sailmaker and maintenance services for our customers in Norway.

We also offer education and experienced sail crews if needed for regatta participation.

Espen is operating Y-Yachts Norway with the support of the experienced team of “With Marine” and we can undertake larger service and maintenance projects, or annual service programs, tailor-made to our client's individual needs.

YYachts Norway are focused on providing an extraordinary service to our customers and clients with a focus on long-term relationships. E-Yachts solely offer the best-designed sailboats, where carbon YYachts represent the biggest and most refined yachts in our portfolio.

For our customers, we provide all kinds of maintenance services in partnership with With Marine, new sail wardrobe, sail repairs, any sail and boat maintenance, service management for all operational systems, rigging, winter storage, antifouling, sail training, regatta team.

We believe that sustainable recreation, holidays and sports, like sailing, are the upcoming future.

After the experience of Covid pandemic, we have seen a growing demand for alternative and sustainable holidays, an alternative that YYachts offer with their unique design, comfortable accommodations and Innovative sustainable features to lower the environmental footprint on the plant.

In our company we speak all Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish) and of course English as well.