The Yacht Channel

4.5 million views. 19,000 subscribers. Independent.

Twenty years before yacht-broker channels became a marketing genre, Paul produced one of the first independent yacht-industry video series. Today The Yacht Channel runs as a working sales-and-education platform — not a paid placement vehicle for shipyard advertorial.

Featured Films

Four films. Four routes to a serious expedition platform.

A curated selection from The Yacht Channel covering the disciplines that drive every Xplorer engagement — wind-powered new builds, OSV Restomods, ice-class conversions, and the finishing-build path.

Wind Propulsion · Long-Form

Wind-Powered Expedition Vessels

The technology, the operating data from MV Canopée, and the WindVoyage 110 programme — the case for wind-powered explorer yachts.

OSV Restomod · Case Study

The OSV: Maximum Volume, U.S.-Built, Ocean-Tough

U.S.-built and Gulf-of-Mexico hardened — why nothing matches an offshore supply vessel as a big-volume hull for a global expedition Restomod.

SAR Conversion · Case Study

€12m SAR Vessel to €50m Expedition Yacht

How a former search-and-rescue vessel becomes a €50M-class global explorer — the acquisition, the conversion scope, and where the value is created.

Listing Review · Value Analysis

153ft Expedition Yacht — Bargain or Trap?

A 153-footer cut from $16.5M to $5.5M — a working appraisal of what that price really reflects, and whether the discount is opportunity or warning.

Expedition Design Playlist → Vessel Inspections → Conversion Case Studies →
What We Cover

Long-form. Unpaid. Owner-relevant.

  1. Long-form vessel walkthroughs. Expedition and superyachts in operating condition. Full walkthroughs — bridge to engine room, including the spaces yacht brochures do not photograph.
  2. Conversion case studies. OSV-to-yacht, research-to-yacht, government-to-yacht. The before-and-after, the budgets, the timeline, and the lessons.
  3. Wind, hybrid, and emerging propulsion. Working coverage of the technologies actually moving from concept to keel — with the WindVoyage programme as a deep-dive series of its own.
  4. Owner interviews and shipyard tours. Time-of-day, on the boat, on camera. The kind of footage that exists nowhere else.
  5. Honest market commentary. Brokerage market movements, new-build pricing, the gap between asking and trading prices, and what is actually selling at what number.
Editorial Position

We do not accept payment for vessel features.

If a vessel appears on The Yacht Channel, it is because we believe she belongs there. Brokerage relationships are disclosed; sponsored content is not part of the model. The audience knows the difference, and that is the entire reason the channel has the audience it does.

“The moment you start running paid placement, the audience knows. They may keep watching for a while, but they stop trusting what you say about a vessel. That is the only currency the channel has.”

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Press & Industry

Commentary on superyacht markets, wind propulsion, and expedition-yacht trends.

Paul's commentary has appeared in Forbes, Yachting Magazine, Boat International, and across the wider industry press. He is WGA-affiliated as a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker (IMDB: nm0534631).

Available for industry panels, podcasts, and editorial commentary on:

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