Case study · Yotspot

Crew thesuperyacht world

A maritime and superyacht recruitment platform, and the Yotspot Connect crew app beside it — connecting a community of more than 180,000 yacht professionals with jobs, training, industry events, vessel tracking and welfare support.

Maritime recruitmentCompanion crew appCommunity platform
Yotspot screenYotspot screen
On the platform
180,000+ professionalsEvery yacht departmentWeb platform + companion appCourse catalogueIndustry eventsVessel tracking
01 — The product

A recruitment platform with a whole community around it

The web platform runs crew search, a job board, a course catalogue, an events calendar, candidate videos and salary guidance across every yacht department. The Yotspot Connect app carries the community into crew's pockets — connections, industry events, live vessel tracking and confidential welfare support at sea.

Two sides of the hire

Job-seeking crew and recruiting captains each get their own account types and search tools, matched around real yacht roles.

Every department covered

Deck, Electro-Technical, Engineering, Galley, Interior and Specialist roles — the full crew structure of a working yacht.

More than a job board

Courses, industry events, candidate videos and salary guides make it a place crew stay, not just a site they visit to apply.

02 — The problem

Why does hiring crew take more than a job board?

Yotspot is where the superyacht industry hires — crew and maritime professionals looking for their next role on one side, captains and recruiters looking for the right people on the other, plus the training, events and community that hold the industry together.

Live vessel tracking and a built-in seafarer welfare helpline are features that only make sense for people who work at sea — and they are exactly what turns a job board into a place crew stay between contracts, not just when they are job-hunting.

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maritime professionals in the community the platform is built around

03 — Built for

Who is Yotspot Connect built for?

The web platform runs the hire; Yotspot Connect carries the community once crew are aboard — a network, events, live vessel tracking and welfare support, all shown below from the product's own screens.

Growing a crew network view
Network

Growing a crew network

An Explore feed of crew nearby and contacts, with follow and request controls to grow a professional network.

Staying connected view
Community

Staying connected

Connections and mutuals in one place, so the people you have sailed with stay one tap away.

Meeting the industry view
Events

Meeting the industry

Event pages with date, place and an RSVP, plus who else from the community is attending.

Never off the map view
At sea

Never off the map

A live map of vessels with position, status and ETA — a feature that only makes sense for a genuinely maritime product.

04 — Yotspot Connect

What does the companion crew app do?

Yotspot Connect takes the community mobile. Between contracts and out at sea, crew keep their network, their events and their wellbeing in one app — a genuinely maritime toolkit, not a job board bolted onto a phone.

Yotspot Connect Explore screen showing nearby crew and contactsYotspot Connect friends and connections listYotspot Connect event detail with RSVP optionsYotspot Connect vessel tracking map with vessel status and ETAYotspot Connect health and wellbeing support screenYotspot Connect member special offers screen
FAQ

Building a maritime recruitment platform

What does Yotspot do?
Yotspot is a recruitment platform for the yacht and superyacht industry. Crew and maritime professionals build profiles and search vacancies across every yacht department, while captains and recruiters search a community of more than 180,000 professionals and post roles. Around the hiring sit training courses, industry events, candidate videos and salary guidance.
Which yacht roles does the platform cover?
The full crew structure of a working yacht: Deck, Electro-Technical Engineering, Engineering, Galley, Interior and Specialist positions. Organising search by department means a chief engineer and a chief stew are looking through genuinely different pipelines rather than one undifferentiated job list.
What is the Yotspot Connect app for?
Yotspot Connect is the companion mobile app that carries the community beyond hiring. Crew use it to build a professional network, discover and RSVP to industry events, track vessels on a live map, and reach confidential welfare support at sea. It keeps crew engaged between contracts, not just when they are job-hunting.
Why does a recruitment platform include vessel tracking and welfare?
Because the audience is maritime, not office-based. Live vessel tracking and a built-in seafarer welfare helpline are features that only make sense for people who work at sea — and they are exactly what turns a job board into a place crew stay. The community features are the retention story behind the recruitment product.
How long does it take to build a platform like this?
A two-sided recruitment platform with search, profiles, a course catalogue, events and a companion app is a multi-phase programme rather than a few weeks. What moves the date is the number of account types and search pipelines, and whether a native mobile app ships alongside the web platform. It is usually phased so the core hiring product lands before the community layer.
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