Twenty-five years as Captain of some of the world's most complex privately owned yachts — including three consecutive 56-metre Perini Navi sailing yachts operated worldwide — built a rare foundation: absolute domain expertise in an industry where operational precision and guest experience are non-negotiable. In 2024, using Claude as an AI coding partner, I taught myself to build software and shipped xplor.io: a full-production, multi-role luxury yacht charter platform — built entirely solo, as my first major coding project.
Platform Built
Founder & Solo Developer
2024 – PresentXplor · xplor.io · Mallorca, Spain
A full-production B2B SaaS platform for the luxury yacht charter and sales industry — built solo, from zero, as a first coding project, using Claude as AI pair-programmer and Nuxt 3 / Vue 3 / Supabase / Vercel as the stack.
- –Multi-role platform serving owners, brokers, crew, charter clients and management — role-based access, KYC verification and custom enrollment flows
- –10,000+ yacht listings with advanced discovery, filtering, and an owner/broker claiming workflow
- –FairSeas — a crew revenue-sharing model directing 50% of platform earnings to crew, built into the core architecture
- –CharterBox — real-time messaging with reactions, threading, read receipts, file attachments and group chat admin
- –Charter Hub — per-charter planning portal with AI itinerary generation, per-section captain locking and PDF export
- –Instagram Platform API: OAuth 2.0, long-lived token exchange, media grids, lightbox and video playback
- –DocuSign contract signing, Postmark email dispatch, Make.com social media automation pipeline
- –Shotstack video builder, ElevenLabs voiceover, DALL-E image generation integrations
- –Full referral partner programme, PWA, SEO architecture and admin tooling
Stack: Claude AI · Nuxt 3 · Vue 3 · Tailwind CSS · JavaScript · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Vercel · REST APIs · Instagram Platform API · OAuth 2.0 · DocuSign · Postmark · Make.com · Shotstack · ElevenLabs
Maritime Career
Charter and owner trips across the US East Coast, Bahamas and Caribbean.
Full operational responsibility: navigation, safety, refit management, budgeting, accounting, payroll, insurances, customs and immigration. Concurrently managed charter and sale of S/Y Zenji (2011–2013).
Worldwide itinerary; refit management; led purchase of S/Y Asahi for the owner in 2011.
Worldwide itinerary; refit management; led sale of Santa Maria and her tenders for the owner.
Maintenance, navigation, safety and refit management.
Installation, maintenance and commissioning of all mechanical components; assistant to Chief Mechanical Engineer.
Qualifications & Education
References available on request
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