001: Charting our own waters

Derelict vessels tell stories of abandoned dreams. We’re here to give them—and ourselves—a second chance at adventure.

While there are plans to legitimize our efforts and obtain recognition in marine markets, Nautical SASE is less about building a business and leans more toward creating a lifestyle rooted in freedom, craftsmanship, and the call of the open water.

Our mission is to recover, restore, and repurpose abandoned boats—breathing new life into vessels long forgotten and charting a path for others to follow as we sail the world and document our story. This is the Nautical Salvage, Adventure, Sailing and Exploration Company, "here, be tempests", and the lionhearted souls who brave them.

Right now, we’re in our “deployment workup” phase—our own way of saying we’re training, testing, and tuning before packing in and setting out. Both Christian and I are full-time cruisers; Christian has his Impetuous, and me (Isaac) on Matilda.

While we take a handful of business and boat manufacturing courses, we’re also retrofitting our own vessels for a shakedown cruise along the Intracoastal Waterway. It’s part training, part trial run, and part proof-of-concept for the work ahead. Mayhaps there's a part pilgrimage in there as well, considering the ever-growing list of destinations on our horizon.

Beyond the ICW, we aim to make haste slowly. A lap around the Gulf will offer us a mostly peaceful theatre to use a testing sandbox for the whole of our operations. Whatever holes in our idea's hulls that need patching will make themselves known here, and it is here that we will truly begin to learn how to patch them.

Our model is simple: find derelict boats via auction, abandonment listings, the general marketplace and word of mouth, fix them up out of pocket, document the process, and eventually resell, charter, or repurpose them into a growing fleet.

In time, our operations will include a training pipeline designed to give veterans a place to rediscover and reorient themselves. This lifestyle has given Christian and myself another chance at finding peace, and we have desire to assist anyone who is willing and curious along their own journeys.

Beyond this, we plan to expand upon the core of our operations to organize large-scale recovery logistics, and even boat design and manufacturing. How? Whatever it takes to create progress toward the dream and keep us going through inevitable hardships; we’ll take on odd jobs—cleaning, repairs, anything that floats—to keep learning and stay afloat. We're here for the adventure as much as for the campfire stories on distant shores that will follow.

Why derelicts? Because it’s about as close as you can get to legal piracy—and there’s something poetic in salvaging beauty from decay. Every vessel we restore is a dream reborn. Some we’ll sell, others we’ll keep. A few will become training platforms; others will carry supplies to salvage teams or offer honeymoons under sail.

Eventually, we’ll expand our operations internationally. But for now, it’s just two upstarts with a plan, a couple of tired sailboats, and a deep belief in what we’re building.

Give us time, and stay with us through the squalls. For now, we're loving life, because it's a beautiful day always when it's sunny, and a glorious occasion when there are clouds on the near horizon!

If you would like to support us, share this article with a friend, pick up a sticker from the merch store, or consider joining our coffee club. All revenue received by Nautical SASE is reinvested back into the company and used to fuel new projects and ideas.

Our very own YouTube channel, Lego models of the vessels we acquire, a book or two, and more dream children are well on the way. For anyone who can't support us, we would still be honored to support you, send us a message and we'll hit you back with a positive word and our best elder millennial advice for living a good life!

From the decks of Impetuous & Matilda—

Christian & Isaac

Fleet Co-Consuls | Nautical SASE Co.

“Here, be tempests”