One partner. Every discipline. From the moment a donor vessel is identified to the day she departs on her first expedition — fully crewed, fully operational, and ready.
Acquiring and operating a superyacht conversion has always meant navigating a fragmented world of brokers, naval architects, shipyards, crew agencies, flag states and management companies. Each operating in isolation. Each with different priorities. None with the full picture.
AUTON was built on a single conviction: that one highly expert partner — with real operational DNA across every service — produces better outcomes and delivers a vessel that is genuinely ready to operate from the moment she leaves the yard. With 255+ years of combined experience across the OCCAM Group, this is expertise that cannot be replicated.
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AUTON is led by professionals who have spent careers at sea and in the superyacht industry. Through the OCCAM Group, our team bring decades of combined experience — as captains, engineers, build managers and operational consultants — to every AUTON conversion project. The result is a service that joins technical build excellence with the operational reality of what it means to set up and launch an exploration support yacht ready for immediate operation.
From contract
to sea trial
in 20 months.
While a new-build explorer-class yacht takes three to four years and upwards of €150M, an AUTON conversion delivers an 80m expedition support yacht — fully crewed, fully commissioned and ready for immediate operation — in 20 months at half the cost, to a world-class specification.
80m Expedition Support Yacht — Designed for Endurance
Project Atlas is designed around a single conviction: the most capable tender and toy deployment platform ever converted from a donor hull. Where most support yachts make compromises between carrying capacity, deployment systems and comfort, Atlas is built to carry and deploy any toy you wish — simultaneously. Helicopter, submarine, autonomous surface and sub-surface fleet, chase boats, dive operation, ATVs — all operable at the same time, in any ocean. The expedition capability is a consequence of that ambition, not the starting point. Crew numbers and guest accommodation layouts are fully flexible depending on operational requirements — owners have complete ability to customise the number and configuration of guest cabins to suit their programme.
80m Live-Aboard Expedition Yacht — 365 Days at Sea Capability
Project Life is our live-aboard expedition brief engineered for owners who intend to use their yacht like a residence. Conceived on a 365 days at sea capability, every system — propulsion, provisions, medical, communications, maintenance and crewing — designed for complete self-sufficiency over extended periods without port dependency. The accommodation philosophy prioritises permanence over passage — designed around the rhythms of daily life at sea rather than the transience of a charter visit. Private owner quarters with dedicated study and office space, self-contained guest suites with the privacy and storage of a home, and specialist team accommodation that supports sustained professional operations. Every space designed to live in, not just sleep in. Crew numbers and guest accommodation layouts are fully flexible depending on operational requirements — owners have complete ability to customise the number and configuration of guest cabins to suit their programme.
80m Ocean Conservation Platform — Purpose-Built for Science at Scale
Project Global is an 80m ocean conservation platform conceived to redefine what a luxury purpose-built research and expedition superyacht can achieve. Where existing conservation vessels compromise between capability and science, Global is designed from first principles to do both to the highest standard simultaneously. A dedicated science programme running continuously — deep-sea research, ocean health monitoring, marine biodiversity assessment — alongside full expedition capability for principals and specialist teams operating in the world's most sensitive environments. This is not philanthropy-dressed-as-yachting. It is a genuine instrument of ocean science, built to last generations. Crew numbers and guest accommodation layouts are fully flexible depending on operational requirements — owners have complete ability to customise the number and configuration of guest cabins to suit their programme.
83.4m Autonomous Toy-Carrying Yacht — A New Category of Vessel
AuXship is not a superyacht with toys. It is a platform designed from first principles to deploy, recover and operate an unprecedented fleet of autonomous craft — surface, sub-surface and aerial. Built on the proven Ulstein PX121 OSV hull, AuXship delivers explorer-class capability in under 20 months at a fraction of new-build cost. A modular architecture means every configuration is owner-specific: heliport, beach club, sport court, science deck, submarine garage. Engineered by Laurent Giles. Designed by ML-YD. Coordinated by OCCAM.
Select a donor vessel profile and configure your conversion scope. Each choice defines your brief — submit it to the AUTON team to begin a conversation about your project.
Specify the number of cabins required in each category. AUTON will configure the layout accordingly.
* Each cabin configured as a double or twin berth
This brief will be sent to the AUTON team. We will be in touch to discuss your project in confidence.
Download your initial design brief as a PDF, or send it directly to the AUTON team. All enquiries are treated in strict confidence.
Your full configuration will be included automatically. The AUTON team will respond within 48 hours. All information held in strict confidence.
Offshore support vessels are the most over-engineered hulls afloat. Built for the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico, they carry redundant propulsion, DP-class station-keeping, long-range tankage and structural integrity that conventional yacht platforms cannot match. A decade of depreciation means the right donor hull can be acquired at a fraction of the cost of a new-build keel.
AUTON's method starts there — and transforms that platform through a modular conversion system that separates the owner's programme from the structure beneath it. Modules are pre-fabricated in parallel with the strip-out, then lifted into place. The result is a fully bespoke, world-class expedition support yacht delivered in under 20 months at a fraction of new-build cost.
The hull is the constant. Everything above it is yours.
* Timescales are approximate and will be confirmed upon signing of the project agreement.
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