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EYOS is pleased to present our Expedition Partner Proposal for Atlantic. EYOS would be honoured to represent the yacht as both the Central Agency and Expedition Management partner — a hybrid relationship that combines the generalised Central Agency function with the highly specialised Expedition Management one. There is simply no other company in the yacht industry equipped to provide both.
Atlantic is a vessel with a story that most yachts in this segment cannot claim. She is a 2010 replica, built by Van Der Graaf, of the original 1903 racing schooner that won the 1905 Kaiser's Cup transatlantic race — the largest classic racing schooner ever recreated. Provenance and character of that order is rare in the charter market, and it is the foundation on which EYOS would represent her.
Our experience is that the best charter outcomes come from three things together: an incredible platform, an incredible destination, and an incredible expedition team. Atlantic is the platform. The deployment program we propose — French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and Japan — is the destination set. And on every charter, an EYOS expedition team travels with the guests, included in the charter price. No other broker in this market includes that.
EYOS pioneered expedition yachting, defining the category in 2008, and remains the world leader in private superyacht expeditions. Off-the-beaten-track is a core EYOS competency. Our team's nautical expertise ranges from sailing yachts and motor vessels to cruise ships, research vessels and superyachts — and our network of travel and marine specialists spans seven continents.
As a result, our unique expertise is invaluable to:
Experience matters is our core belief. Relationship matters is the core of our business practice.
We welcome the opportunity to further discuss EYOS × Atlantic, and we look forward to reaching an agreement. Our team is ready to begin immediately.
Ben Lyons
CEO
EYOS Expeditions
EYOS is ideally positioned to act as both the Central Agency and Expedition Management partner for Atlantic.
Unlike other traditional central agents in the yachting industry, we live and breathe the expedition business and expedition geographies. Top industry brokers look to EYOS. If we're endorsing a vessel, they know they can trust in our management.
EYOS has many clients who are keen to charter where most yachts don't go — French Polynesia, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar. The destinations Atlantic's deployment program is built around are the destinations our clients are already asking about. Off-the-beaten-track travel is a core EYOS competency.
In terms of operational capabilities in remote regions, we are simply without peers. Our dedicated team manages highly complex operations with innovation, knowledge and experience — from voyage planning and permitting to local fixer networks, science programs and on-the-water logistics. Choosing EYOS as your Expedition Partner streamlines selling to brokers, providing timely, accurate information and deployments.
And every EYOS charter includes an EYOS expedition team aboard, as part of the charter price. This is the kind of experience no conventional broker can deliver, and it is what makes Atlantic distinct in her market.
As Atlantic's single point of contact we would ensure the entire process from initiating sales to delivering superb experiences is cohesive and consistent.
Now, let us introduce you to the EYOS Leadership Team.
Three founding partners and a leadership bench who defined private superyacht expeditions as a category and still operate at the front line of every voyage EYOS runs.
The largest classic racing schooner ever recreated, Atlantic is a 2010 replica of the original 1903 Gardner-designed schooner that won the 1905 Kaiser's Cup transatlantic race. Provenance and character of that order is uncommon in the charter market, and it is the starting point for how EYOS would represent her.
Charters aboard Atlantic would not be presented as time on a hull. They would be presented as time aboard a sailing legend in the most remote and remarkable corners of the world, with the company that pioneered private superyacht expeditions guiding every voyage.
Every EYOS charter includes an EYOS expedition team aboard, included in the rate — naturalist, dive lead, drone pilot, fixer, photographer, depending on the program. This is not how charters are typically delivered in the classic-sailing-yacht category, and it is what gives Atlantic a distinct offer in her market.
Off-the-beaten-track travel is what EYOS does. Atlantic's deployment program — French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Japan — is the kind of program our clients are already asking for. EYOS is well-placed to bring the right yacht and the right team to meet that demand.
And the broker community knows that EYOS is highly selective, focusing on unique best-in-class yachts in their various categories. Bringing Atlantic under our representation will send a strong signal to the industry to expect best-in-class expedition planning, operations, logistics and staffing.
Based on her size, sail heritage and the type of charter client she draws, we envision Atlantic amid a competitive set drawn from the classic / historic / large sailing yacht tier. Each comparable below is matched on overall size, sailing-yacht credentials and the kind of guest looking for a vessel with story.
As we've said, experience matters is our core belief and relationship matters is core to our business practice.
Our success and that of our clients has been intricately linked to exceptional partners who share our passion for innovation, excellence and the natural world.
Here are only a few examples that indicate how EYOS' network of partners can add value and further differentiate Atlantic's offerings in the market.
Yachts for Science is an innovative EYOS-founded program that recognises the majority of ocean scientists struggle to get vessel time at sea, and that yachts can be effective science platforms. By matching top-tier ocean science projects with yacht owners willing to provide a temporary research platform, the program enables owners to host small teams and support vital ocean research. Atlantic's clients could enjoy exclusive and engaging access experiences across her tropical program — coral reef surveys, cetacean tracking and marine biodiversity work.
EYOS partners with Camp Dominica on Diving with Giants — a pioneering program offering guests the rare opportunity to swim with resident sperm whales in Dominica's sperm whale sanctuary, the first of its kind in the world. Conservation is built in: proceeds fund Common Earth's marine protection work, and the partnership has established the Dominican Sperm Whale Institute and a training program for local Dominican guides. Recognised by Condé Nast Traveler's Bright Ideas in Travel 2025. EYOS would seek to develop similarly distinctive, conservation-led access programs for Atlantic's clients in Indonesia, Madagascar and the South Pacific.
More marketing to charter clients looking to go off the beaten track is a core EYOS competency. While the tools we use — a website, social media, advertising, editorial and PR — are also used by our competitors, our industry reputation is our superpower.
Top industry brokers look to EYOS. If we're endorsing a vessel, they know they can trust our yacht selection, our management, and our ability to deliver an exceptional experience for their clients. Most inquiries, whether through brokers, direct clients or travel agents, come to EYOS.
The regions Atlantic's deployment program covers — French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and Japan — are exactly the regions our charter clients are already asking us about. Atlantic can rely on EYOS for consistent charter sales across her program.
However, we offer Atlantic even more — our proprietary in-house Media Studio, a team of professional photographers and videographers who work exclusively for EYOS, documenting our Expedition Partners' yachts and expeditions. We have created an unrivalled library of superb images and dynamic videos that are never generic or cliché — expertly wielded by our marketing team to capture prospect attention and drive interest.
Our team and our credentials have made EYOS the go-to source in expedition yachting — a powerful resource we offer as Atlantic's Expedition Partner.
The EYOS website was refitted in 2023 with a focus on large-scale, high quality still and motion imagery and expanded content.
Underpinned by newly implemented, best-in-class SEM & SEO initiatives, our marketing is dynamic, and prospect-focused, not merely a passive listing site.
In addition to the Atlantic webpage, the yacht will be supported by blog posts, prominently featured in the EYOS video library, in destination-centric videos and in social media Reels.
Visit eyos-expeditions.com →
EYOS has in the past regularly featured Atlantic across our social media activity—on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. And EYOS has consistently grown friend/follower counts across every platform in 2025:
Our advertising ranges from ads promoting image/brand and destinations to ads for specific yachts. Because we are selective and work with a limited number of best-in-class yachts, we can focus our advertising dollars to drive interest for our clients. The following are some recent examples of ads run in BOAT Magazine, where EYOS maintains a regular advertising and editorial presence.
Depending on the contract, we can create standout advertising for Atlantic given our Media Studio's outstanding archive of proprietary images.
Two examples below — one destination-led, one yacht-specific. The same templates are available for Atlantic under this partnership, working from her own image library.
EYOS engaged a new PR agency in 2025 that has enhanced our ability to attract attention — for our company and our clients. Since our partnership began in mid-2025, EYOS has received the Condé Nast Traveler Bright Ideas award for our work with Camp Dominica. We've planned two press familiarisation trips on two yachts for winter 2025–26 and are preparing for next year's annual Explorer Yacht Summit, exclusively sponsored by EYOS. The EYOS team appears at events each year, from PURE and Do Not Disturb in the luxury trade, to Monaco Yacht Show and the Antigua Charter Show on the yachting side.
We have received over 98 press placements this year, with features in Forbes and Robb Report, among others, generating high-impact media attention. More importantly for Atlantic, we're not just seen by the world's press as a yachting company. We're seen as a luxury travel company — greatly increasing our market reach.
We are confident in our ability to create a deployment schedule that will maximise revenue. For example, EYOS has successfully operated several 'single-cabin' scheduled departures, a strategy we could employ to extend Atlantic's operational windows and increase revenue opportunities.
Anticipated revenue is based on Atlantic chartering 15 weeks per year at €190,000 per week plus expenses across the following destinations:
Our fee incorporates the traditional Central Agency commission of 20%, with an industry-standard 15% to the broker bringing the client, and a simple Expedition Management fee of $2,200 per day, inclusive of an EYOS Expedition guide aboard every charter.
Traditional Central Agency commission on charter rate.
Industry-standard commission to the broker bringing the client.
Simple daily fee, inclusive of an EYOS Expedition guide aboard.
Rob has spent three decades guiding and leading expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica—including several record-breaking expeditions to the Ross Sea and multiple visits to the South Pole. In the Arctic, his expeditions have spanned the Arctic Circle and on to the North Pole—from record-breaking transits of the Northwest Passage to the first descent to the deepest point of the Arctic Ocean, along with a host of Guinness World Record accomplishments.
Rob managed the 4-year design and construction of the hybrid research vessel and yacht Alucia, considered a turning point for the world's expedition fleet. As part of the core design team, he contributed his global expedition experience on a wide variety of vessels into SeaXplorer, a turning point in design and capability for the world's expedition fleet and the Damen Yachting 'Xplorer' designs.
Living in Papua New Guinea for 15 years, and working throughout Melanesia—Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands—for five decades, he has extensive knowledge of the region and its complex cultures.
Recently named a semi-finalist for KiwiBank's Kiwi of the Year in 2025, Rob is the deepest diving New Zealander having reached the Challenger Deep in 2021. He has planned, managed and led deep submergence expeditions across every ocean, including the Five Deeps Expedition, the multi-year 'Ring of Fire Expedition', all of the world's 10,000m+ trenches, the world's deepest shipwreck (6500m), RMS Titanic (7 times) and the battleship Bismarck. Widely consulted on privately funded ocean science initiatives, Rob has worked with Harvard University, the Norwegian Navy, National Geographic Society, the Discovery Channel, BBC, NHK, CNN and more.
As Expedition Leader and Divemaster, Tim has led over 100 polar expeditions and spent years exploring tropical waters, discovering remote islands and coasts across every ocean.
His expeditions span Earth's extremes—from the geographic North Pole to Antarctica's Bay of Whales, including a record-breaking furthest south and complete circumnavigations of both polar regions. Beyond nearly 100 Antarctic Peninsula voyages, Tim has led yacht and heli-equipped icebreaker expeditions deep into the Ross and Weddell Seas, circumnavigated the Antarctic continent, and managed film projects to the Antarctic interior and South Pole.
Tim has transited the Northeast Passage, exploring Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands, and reached the North Pole by icebreaker. He has led pioneering expeditions through the Northwest Passage and across Svalbard, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, North Atlantic islands and the Russian Far East.
A keen skier and snowboarder, Tim pioneered EYOS's yacht-based heli-ski expeditions to Greenland and Antarctica—using heli-equipped superyachts as floating ski lodges that relocate daily, opening entirely new dimensions in expedition yachting.
In tropical regions, Tim has worked as Divemaster and Expedition Leader across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, visiting remote islands of Madagascar, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Central America, the Caribbean, mid-Atlantic islands and South America's coasts and rivers.
Tim's expertise has proved invaluable for private owners and shipyards. He contributed to the Damen SeaXplorer series from design through operation and led La Datcha's first Antarctic voyage, directly informing innovations enhancing guest experiences.
Ben graduated from Groton School in Massachusetts and attended the US Merchant Marine Academy, going on to serve as an officer aboard vessels ranging from large cruise ships in Hawaii to cable ships installing undersea fiber optic systems.
In 2003, he was recruited to join Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 during her construction in France—becoming the first American officer hired in the company's two-century history. He served aboard the QM2 for five years, rising to Chief Officer.
An avid traveler to unusual, less-developed regions, Ben simultaneously spent over a decade as an active travel writer with articles and reviews in guidebooks, magazines and newspapers. After several years specializing in expedition cruising coverage, he traveled to Antarctica in 2007, subsequently leaving Cunard to join Lindblad Expeditions, serving as Chief Officer, Ice Officer and later Captain aboard National Geographic Endeavour, National Geographic Explorer, and National Geographic Orion.
After achieving an MBA at Columbia Business School, Ben joined EYOS in 2012, bringing a rare combination of operational expertise and strategic business thinking.
He maintains an Unlimited Tonnage Master's license with an Advanced Polar Code endorsement and holds a Pilotage Exemption Certificate for Svalbard. Believing in the value of fresh, first-hand experience, Ben takes select trips as the EYOS Ice Pilot on vessels ranging from 2,000 tons up to 60,000 tons—including yachts, research vessels and expedition ships.
Ben is a Member of The Explorers Club and serves on the Board of the Steamship Historical Society of America.
At EYOS Expeditions, Ian designs and leads private and research voyages in remote environments, blending exploration, science, and storytelling. Over more than a decade with leading expedition operators he has worked as a naturalist, photo instructor, cold water diver, and UAV pilot across polar and tropical regions — covering all seven continents with extensive work in Antarctica, Southeast Alaska, Micronesia, French Polynesia, and Australia's Kimberley coast.
A 2018 National Geographic Explorer (Early Career Storytelling Grant), Ian holds a U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Master's License, FAA Part 107 UAV pilot certification, and is a Senior Polar Guide with the Polar Tourism Guides Association. His documentary work has supported major wildlife productions.
He graduated from Wheaton College (MA) with a degree in Psychobiology / Neuroscience and minors in Astronomy, History, and Environmental Studies. His core competencies include wildlife behavior interpretation, extreme-environment operations, drone and aerial cinematography, Zodiac navigation through ice, and science communication.
Tamsin has spent the past 15 years working in the yacht industry and cultivating her travel portfolio. From visiting indigenous tribes in Colombia's Sierra Nevada to traveling through Antarctica aboard Legend, she is committed to discovering the wild and remote regions of the world.
As our Client Director, Tamsin works closely with preferred suppliers and operators with global expertise and unparalleled access—to help the EYOS team introduce yacht owners, agents and charter guests to exhilarating new itineraries in remote and off-the-beaten track destinations.
Tamsin began her business management career with Porto Montenegro before working in business development for Campers & Nicholsons and YPI, two of the yachting industry's leading brokerage houses. Inherently entrepreneurial, she has been at the forefront of developing new products in super yachting, including offering clients the opportunity to charter yachts on a per-cabin basis and being one of the first to embrace the burgeoning expedition yachting industry.
Rosie's passion for travel and adventure began at age 18 when she set off backpacking around the world — and her explorer spirit is still very much alive. She lived and worked in Monaco, the yachting hub of the world, and is now firmly back on English soil.
Combining her love of adventure with deep industry knowledge, Rosie serves as Expedition Yacht Manager, working closely with a global network of charter brokers and travel agents to create unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experiences for guests.
Notably, Rosie was previously Atlantic's Central Agent during her tenure at Camper & Nicholsons, giving her a unique, direct relationship with this vessel and her ownership. ⚠️ TBD — confirm exact wording with Tim before publish
Peter Butz has a rare past in expedition travel beginning with an improbable first job in the industry. In his early twenties, planning to quit a dull reservations job in New York City, he was tapped by Lars-Eric Lindblad, considered the pioneer of expedition travel, to head to Antarctica immediately and begin the (seminal) job of driving Zodiacs.
Peter's bona fides in expedition travel are unassailable. He has been everywhere in the adventurous world, including Antarctica, the Great Barrier Reef, the Arctic and the Amazon. Through extensive hands-on experience, Peter has developed a deep understanding of the complexities of expedition cruising. He has progressed from his beginnings in the field through positions of increasing managerial responsibility, culminating in COO positions, including at Lindblad Expeditions–National Geographic where he managed a fleet of six expedition ships that carried thousands of clients annually to far-flung destinations worldwide.
Since joining EYOS, he considers the best part of the experience, for clients and their guests, to be "the part they never see." His penchant is for the planning, the tailoring of every expedition EYOS operates specifically for the participants of that particular trip—their individual interests, their abilities, and their preferences. He believes there is no cookie-cutter approach to any aspect of EYOS Expedition Management. He's participated in developing hundreds of expeditions—to Antarctica, the Arctic, Melanesia, and other remote corners of the globe—and takes professional pride in the behind-the-scenes preparation that makes our clients' charters exceptional.
Thank you for your time and attention. We hope we have provided a compelling case for forging an EYOS × Atlantic Expedition Partnership and exploring the future together.
We look forward to discussing all possibilities very soon.