Yachting Channel
Yachting Channel | Yachting International Radio Yachting Channel by Yachting International Radio (YIR) is a leading global yacht podcast, yachting podcast, superyacht podcast, and maritime podcast network covering the people, businesses, vessels, crew, owners, technology, destinations, and ideas shaping the modern yachting industry. Produced by Yachting International Radio, the Yachting Channel brings together over 20 original shows featuring yacht captains, superyacht crew, brokers, shipyards, designers, maritime lawyers, engineers, sustainability leaders, recruiters, wellness experts, entrepreneurs, and industry voices from across the global marine sector. Topics include yacht ownership, yacht charter, superyacht design, yacht crew life, crew training, maritime law, crew contracts, refit, new...
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Yacht Ownership Is Changing: Trust, Reputation and the Isle of Man | Yachting Confidential
<p>Yacht ownership is changing. The next generation of owners is asking different questions, commissioning more adventurous vessels and expecting far more from the jurisdictions, advisors and professional networks standing behind them.</p><p>A flag may be visible, but the real value lies in everything behind it.</p><p>In this episode of Yachting Confidential, Sabrina van Maltha sits down with Capt. Lee Clarke, General Manager of Isle of Man Maritime, to explore what makes a maritime jurisdiction worthy of an owner’s trust.</p><p>The Isle of Man has built its international reputation on far more than ya...
Superyacht Business, Marriage & Sacrifice with Alicia and David Store | On The Bridge
<p>When your phone has not been switched off for 18 years, 25 livelihoods depend on your decisions and every crisis follows you home, running a business with your spouse is anything but a conventional job.</p><p>In the first of a new On The Bridge Meet the Team series, Alicia Store takes the guest seat alongside her husband and business partner, David Store. As COO and CEO of dsnm Ltd, they speak openly about the work behind their job titles, why their very different strengths have made the company stronger, and what it takes to share both an office and...
Monaco, Full Circle: Meeli Lepik Returns to MYS 2026 | Lucie Gardiner
<p>Operational experience should not enter a yacht project only after problems arise. For Meeli Lepik, it belongs at the heart of every design, build and refit from the beginning.</p><p>Meeli reflects on her journey from senior onboard operations to establishing Holistic Yacht Interiors, including the advice that encouraged her to create something of her own, the experience she gained before taking that step, and the genuine shoreside network that helped make it possible.</p><p>She also examines the difficult transition facing experienced onboard professionals who want to build independent careers ashore, and the longstanding disconnect between...
The Power to Say No: Financial Freedom and Private Money Lending | Jon Schoeller | Rich AF
<p>Financial freedom is often sold as the ability to buy whatever you want. Jon Schoeller sees it differently. Real freedom is having the power to say no.</p><p>In this episode of Rich AF, Charl Minnaar sits down with real estate investor, private money lender and More Than Money founder Jon Schoeller for an honest discussion about wealth, family and what all that hard work is ultimately meant to provide.</p><p>Jon and his wife, Rhianna, reached financial freedom in their early thirties, but adopting their daughter changed how they measured success. Jon explains why time became...
Yacht Recruitment Reality Check: Toxic Boats, Bad Fits & Broken Standards | Laura-Kate Brown | The Crew Car
<p>Yacht recruitment is not simply a CV, a vacancy and a race to make the placement. Get the match wrong and a crew member can walk into a toxic vessel, a yacht can hire somebody completely wrong for its culture, and both sides pay for a decision made too quickly.</p><p>In this episode of The Crew Car, Captain James Battey sits down with Laura-Kate Brown, Manager at Seven Seas Recruitment and former chief stewardess, for an unfiltered look at the realities of hiring and working in modern yachting.</p><p>Laura-Kate traces her route from joining her...
Living Underwater: Inside DEEP’s Vanguard Subsea Habitat | Dawn Kernagis & Norman Smith | The Blue Economy
<p>What becomes possible when scientists can live and work beneath the ocean instead of racing against the limits of a conventional dive?</p><p>Recorded at the opening of DEEP Station Florida in Marathon, this episode of The Blue Economy explores Vanguard, the first open-ocean crewed subsea habitat deployed in United States waters in more than 40 years.</p><p>Installed 17 metres beneath the surface at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Vanguard can support four crew members on missions lasting five days or more. The habitat gives scientists sustained access to the ocean for reef restoration...
Invest in Superyacht Crew or Pay for Turnover | Captain Kelly Gordon | Forward Watch
<p>Good crew are expensive to replace. They are far less expensive to keep.</p><p>In this episode of Forward Watch, Karine Rayson sits down with Captain Kelly Gordon for a direct conversation about why crew development, wellbeing and practical support should never be dismissed as optional extras. They are business decisions that affect retention, continuity, onboard culture and the owner’s experience.</p><p>With almost 20 years in yachting, around 15 years as a captain and an earlier career as a chemistry professor, Kelly has always believed in the value of education. She explains why investing in courses, counselling, le...
Buried At Sea: The Fight For Accountability | Ryan Melogy | Part Three | UNCENSORED
<p>What happens when exposure is no longer enough, and the fight for accountability begins?</p><p>In Part Three of Buried At Sea: The Fight For Accountability, UNCENSORED host Marién Sarriera concludes this three-part series with maritime lawyer, advocate, former seafarer, and Justice4Mariners founder Ryan Melogy.</p><p>After Part One examined abuse at sea, silence, retaliation, and the systems that protect power, and Part Two followed the discovery of a reporting law that had been ignored for decades, Part Three moves into what happened next.</p><p>This is where advocacy turns into action.</p><p>R...
Cannes Yachting Festival 2026: Luxury, Innovation & Life On The Water | Yachting Confidential
<p>Cannes Yachting Festival is where the yachting season begins, where shipyards reveal their latest work, where buyers step aboard, and where the future direction of luxury boating becomes visible on the water.</p><p>In this episode of Yachting Confidential, Sabrina van Maltha speaks with Constance Brément, Show Director of the Cannes Yachting Festival, ahead of the 2026 edition taking place 8 to 13 September in Cannes.</p><p>Constance brings a rare perspective to the role, having experienced the festival for many years from the exhibitor side before stepping into leadership of the event itself. That background gives her a c...
CrewPass, Crew Vetting & AI in Yachting with Conrad Empson | On The Bridge
<p>How well does the superyacht industry really know the people it brings onboard?</p><p>In this episode of On The Bridge, Alicia Store, Chief Operating Officer at dsnm Ltd, speaks with Conrad Empson, Founder and Managing Director of CrewPass, about crew vetting, background checks, onboard safety, entrepreneurship, and the growing role of AI in yachting.</p><p>Conrad started in yachting as crew, working his way from deckhand to bosun before moving ashore. His experience onboard helped shape the idea behind CrewPass, a platform built to make crew background checks easier, more secure, and more useful for crew...
