Meet The Team

Matt Abbiss

Founder & CEO
Sales Director

Matt is S6 Marine’s Founder & CEO. He’ll be there from the start of the journey, guiding you along the way helping you find your dream yacht and managing the whole process to ensure you get the most from your yacht. He oversees both Monohull and Multihull sales, with a particular focus on the build process. Matt is a qualified captain with an RYA Commercial Yachtmaster Ocean Instructor certificate. He has sailed over 200,000 nautical miles in over 30 years of sailing. During this time Matt has skippered 12 ARC Transatlantics, 5 Fastnet races and has won trophies at over 30 prestigious regattas. Aside from being a professional sailor Matt also has a degree in Law and in a previous life worked in Banking and Life Assurance.

Karolina Matysiak

Multihull Sales Manager

Karolina joined the yachting industry over 6 years ago working for Sunreef Yachts. Participating in countless boat shows, talking to and being among hundreds of customers, guiding them through the sales process, all the boats sold have given her the experience, knowledge and network that she brings with her to S6 Marine to create your dream project. The thing that attracted Karolina to working for S6 Marine was our readiness and experience in leading the customer not only through the sales process, but the entire after-sales, sea journey! Karolina is based in Poland, but often visits the UK office for team meetings and, like the rest of the team, travels the world to meet clients and show yachts.

Olivia Petty-Mayor

Junior Yacht Broker

As a member of our team, Olivia works in the yacht sales and brokerage department, keeping us up to date with the evolving market, and marketing and managing brokerage and new build listings. Olivia also coordinates our Parts and Equipment procurement department, working alongside clients post-sale to fully equip the whole vessel so it is ready for use.

Olivia has always been surrounded by the sea and has grown up sailing dinghies and cruisers at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club before going on to compete for the Sailing and Windsurfing team at University where she completed her degree in Politics and International Relations.

Olivia recently completed an Atlantic crossing onboard a Lagoon 77 from Lanzarote to Antigua. She was at sea for a total of 18 days alongside her 5 crew members before meeting our team in Antigua for the Yacht Show and returning back to work with the Yacht Sales Team. Olivia can’t wait to get back out on the water soon and loves meeting clients with the same attitude!

In her spare time, you will find her on the beach or on the water either sailing, windsurfing or paddle boarding, ideally with a dog close by!

Lizzie Abbiss

Marketing Director

Lizzie oversees the Marketing of S6Marine; helping navigate S6 Marine as a boutique Yacht Sales company, having been in the Yachting Industry for 20 years she is the Managing Director of diYachting; which specialises in Yacht Management and Crewed Yacht Charters. Lizzie has sailed since a young age, having grown up by the sea in Southend in Essex, she has sailed over 150,000 nautical miles and worked together with Matt for 20 years. Before her Marine career started, Lizzie studied Tourism & Business at Bournemouth University and worked for several years for Camp America in their London office.

Craig Dymock

Monohull Sales Broker

Fleet Street at age nineteen, Craig spent over twenty years in advertising with Times Newspapers, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer.

A professional yacht captain for five years on large yachts, Craig has completed eight trans-Atlantic crossings, one Pacific and over twenty Cowes Weeks, class winner five times. Craig has competed in top regattas in eighteen countries over twenty-five years and competes on his own 28ft racing boat whenever he can.

After finishing on Superyachts he lived in France for 16 years with his wife Emma and is fluent in French.

In 2008 Craig launched the Carbonautica brand of composite yachting equipment in the role of Sales Director. From a modest start-up, Carbonautica products have now been adopted by almost every production sailing yacht manufacturer and are recognised brand all over the world.

For the previous three years Craig has been boatbuilding and project managing yachts on the Isle of Wight and joined S6 Marine in 2023 as monohull broker.

Mimi

The Frenchie

Not just an office dog. Mimi the French Bulldog is based in the Southend Office and is the one that keeps everyone smiling when the days are long. She welcomes all delivery drivers and is probably the one that is really in charge, or at least so she thinks!