The niche the mainstream agencies never entered
Crew agencies place deck and interior. Medical recruiters place into hospitals. The clinician who provides continuous care to a principal aboard a private vessel falls between the two — which is why the market for them has remained almost entirely unserved, and why we entered it.
We currently hold live mandates across physician, nursing and physiotherapy appointments at sea.
Why the appointment is different
The clinician is the entire service. No colleague, no on-call registrar, no radiology. Every decision is made alone, at sea, sometimes hours from definitive care. The competence required is not seniority — it is independent judgement under genuine constraint.
The treatment room moves. Manual therapy on a vessel underway is a different technical proposition. Equipment must be secured, technique adapted, and the clinician has to be as comfortable with the environment as with the intervention.
Proximity is total. The clinician lives alongside the principal and the family. Professional composure is a continuous requirement, not one held for a consultation. Clinicians who cannot sustain that boundary do not last a season, and we screen for it explicitly.
Confidentiality is absolute. These appointments are governed by strict non-disclosure. We do not name vessels, principals or itineraries — before, during or after a mandate. Our full framework is set out at Confidentiality, NDAs and Vetting.
Our maritime practice
- Private yacht physicians — full clinical autonomy, purpose-equipped onboard medical suite
- Private yacht nurses — continuous one-to-one care, medication management, chronic condition monitoring
- Private yacht physiotherapists — manual therapy, longevity and performance from a bespoke onboard suite
Packages
Maritime mandates are quoted tax-free, typically from £60,000 to £110,000 for nursing and physiotherapy appointments and materially higher for physician mandates carrying sole clinical responsibility. Accommodation, subsistence and travel are provided throughout. Season length and rotation vary by vessel and are agreed at mandate stage.
For owners, captains and family offices
Vessel medical provision is commissioned quietly and rarely advertised. We work directly with owners’ representatives, chiefs of staff and family offices, and we do not publish mandates that identify a vessel or a principal.
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