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ReloadWe fit modern automation into yachts built when none of it existed — lighting, climate, AI cameras, screens in every space, pumps, valves and safety monitoring. Without a new boat, and without a refit that costs more than she is worth.
“Not every yacht owner is a billionaire”
The boats we work on are fifteen to twenty-five years old, ten to twenty-five metres long, and owned by people who paid for them out of their own pocket. They deserve the same technology as a new ninety-metre — and they can have it, for a fraction of what everybody assumes.
We are not a dealer for any of these and we are not endorsed by anyone who owns them. We choose per boat, we tell you what we chose and why, and you own what we fit.
Everything else follows from that. Both answers give you the same boat to live with — what they change is how much of her has to come apart to get there.
The best case. Panels are off, headlining is down, and we can put in a proper wired backbone while the yard has her anyway.
She is lived on, chartered or simply in use, and nothing may be disturbed. We work wireless, and we work around you.
Most boats are somewhere in between: a few runs are possible, the rest is not. That is the commonest design we do, and the one we are best at.
A well-built 2005 motor yacht is still a well-built motor yacht. The hull is sound, the engines have years in them, and her joinery was made by people who are mostly retired now. Put her alongside a new boat of the same size and the difference is not the sea-keeping. It is that the new one has glass in every bulkhead and answers a telephone, and yours has a panel of toggle switches with the labels worn off.
That difference is worth a great deal of money at a broker's — and almost none of it is structural. It is screens, sensors, a controller, and somebody who knows how to make the three talk to each other on a boat rather than in a house.
We are in the business of closing a twenty-year gap for the price of a tender.
Which is also why we only take on boats that are worth it. If the survey finds her wiring at the end of its life, or her systems past saving, we will say so and decline the work. Selling a control system to sit on top of a problem helps nobody, least of all us.
Lighting, climate, security and entertainment — and the machinery nobody thinks about until the day it fails.
And the rest of her — which is usually what earns the system its keep:
An alarm that fires every time a wake rolls through the marina is an alarm you mute in week two. Ours run their detection aboard and tell you only when something is genuinely worth knowing.
We install the equipment; you operate it. This is not a monitored security service and nothing here reaches a control room — see clause 17.4 of the Terms. If a camera can see the pontoon or a neighbouring boat, §8 of the Privacy Policy explains what that makes you responsible for.
On a boat of this age the most dated thing aboard is the row of toggle switches by the helm. The second is having to walk to the engine room to find out what is running.
The original switches stay and keep working, unless you ask us to remove them. On a boat that is usually the right answer: one that obeys only a screen is one you cannot use when the screen is flat.
Aboard, it saves you walking the length of the boat. From four hundred miles away in February, it is the reason you sleep.
Remote access needs a connection aboard. If she has none we fit one — 4G, marina Wi-Fi, or both, with each falling back to the other. Everything aboard keeps working without it; the connection is only what lets you see her from far away.
A boat spends most of her life alone. Nearly everything expensive that happens to her happens while nobody is aboard — and nearly all of it announces itself hours before it becomes serious.
None of this replaces the equipment she is required to carry, and none of it relieves her master of anything. It is an extra pair of eyes, not a watchkeeper.
This is the difference between a set of connected devices and a system. Every one of these is a sentence somebody said to us about their own boat, turned into something she now does by herself.
The heating comes on, the water heater starts, the fridge drops to temperature, and the cabin lights come up to a low warm setting as you step aboard.
Lights off, audio off, the circuits that do not matter drop out, the alarm arms, and the seacocks you nominated close behind you.
Your phone tells you, with the water level and the run count, long before the third time becomes a problem.
Deck lighting comes up, the cameras record, and you get a still of the passerelle — while a gull landing on the pulpit is ignored.
She tells you, sheds the loads that do not matter, protects the batteries, and starts the generator if you allowed her to.
The saloon dims, the television and projector go off, the screen rolls up, the cabin lights follow you aft — and every bilge and smoke alarm stays wide awake.
Not one of these came out of a manufacturer's menu of scenes. They are written for your boat, and rewritten whenever you change your mind — which everybody does, in the first month.
Nobody travels anywhere until you have seen a price range and decided you like it.
The spaces aboard, what is in them, and what you would like her to do. Ten minutes in the quote form, then reply to our email with photographs. No visit, no cost.
An engineer goes through it properly and comes back with an approach, a price range, and usually two or three things you had not thought of. Still free, and it commits you to nothing.
If the range suits you, a survey fee books the visit — and comes off the price in full if you go ahead. Two hours aboard, you present, and a definitive written quotation that does not move afterwards.
In her berth or in the yard, in hours agreed with you, cleaning up at the end of every day. On a boat in commission you carry on using her throughout.
Working, documented and yours: accounts, credentials and drawings. Then an hour aboard with whoever is actually going to use it.
The first two steps cost you nothing. The survey fee comes off the price in full if you go ahead, and comes back to you if our definitive quotation lands above the range we gave you. It is not refunded if you simply change your mind, or if she turns out to be materially different from what you described.
Ten minutes in the quote wizard tells us enough to put a real number on it. No technology questions — just the boat, and what you would like her to do.
The first two steps cost you nothing. No sales visit, no newsletter.