At Home With BOAT: Watch the Interviews

In episode two, superyacht owner Anil Thadani talks about cruising the artic on board his 45 metre Timmerman yacht Latitude. Thadani reminisced about his journeys to the Svalbard archipelago, crossings of the Northwest Passage and encounters with polar bears.

BOAT editor Stewart Campbell talks to former F1 boss Eddie Jordan in the third episode of At Home with BOAT. Jordan, who owns 45 metre Perini Navi sailing yacht Blush, talked about how long stretches spent sailing around the world helped him prepare for life in self-isolation.

In episode five, the founder of Studio Indigo, Mike Fisher, talked about design projects still currently underway at the firm despite the coronavirus lockdown. Studio Indigo has worked on yachts including Joy and Project Witchcraft, as well as Fisher's own yacht Brigadoon.

In the sixth episode of At Home with BOAT, Fraser CEO Raphael Sauleau talks to BOAT editor Stewart Campbell about how the charter industry is responding to the pandemic. Sauleau suggested that, after COVID-19 travel bans are lifted, we could see a strong Caribbean charter season for winter 2020.

In the eighth episode of the series, BOAT International editor Stewart Campbell spoke with Bruce Grossman, owner of 55-metre ISA superyacht Forever One. Grossman talked about how his crew were dealing with life in lockdown while isolating in Athens, as well as giving a detailed account behind the design, construction and naming history of Forever One.

For episode nine, serial superyacht owner Carl Allen talks about his superyacht fleet, including his 50 metre Westport Gigi and 55 metre Damen support vessel Axis. As a keen big-game fisherman, diver, and explorer, his yachts carry an impressive arsenal of toys on board, from a Triton submarine to an amphibious plane, both of which help Allen in his search for sunken ships and treasure lost at sea.

In the 10th episode of At Home with BOAT, Moran Yacht & Ship president Rob Moran talked about how coronavirus was affecting the current brokerage and charter markets, as well as current trends shaping today's yachts. In particular, Moran discussed how modern superyacht owners are pushing for their yachts to be as "environmentally perfect" as possible, meaning that recent innovations in yacht design are often geared towards emissions and the environment.

In episode 12, chief executive of Nautor's Swan, Giovanni Pomati, says that comfort is the key to securing new sailing yacht owners. Before joining Nautor’s Swan in 2018, Pomati spent 20 years in the automotive sector, and believes the yachting industry can learn something from luxury car manufacturers. Today, he says, SUVs are a key business driver for Porsche accounting for over 50% of sales, which comes down to one thing: comfort. With this in mind, the Finnish yard's latest models, the Swan 98 and Swan Maxi 120, are "wider, with more volume, and heel less which is helping us to bring more people in.”

Now could be the perfect time to buy a boat, with sellers keen to secure deals, according to YPI director Abdullah Nahar. Speaking in episode 13, he said: “A lot of owners believe that this is a buyer’s market and so they are keen to sell. The indication of this is the price point is on average anywhere between from 15% to 20% below the usual market price.” In the episode Nahar also touches on a wave of first-time buyers as a direct result of the pandemic and expects charters to resume at the tail end of the summer season.

In episode 14 of At Home With BOAT, Mark Cavendish talks about the challenges of building Heesen's biggest project to date - the 80 metre Project Cosmos. One of the trickiest parts of the build will be transporting the yacht from the shipyard in Oss to the sea, with over 120 kilometres of canal, bridges and locks to navigate. The new flagship is expected to hit the water in 2022 with delivery in spring.