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"Changing the World Without Changing Course"

YachtAid Global, is a registered 501c3 founded in 2006, operating at the highest levels of international non-profit work, provides humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and conservation programs across coastal communities worldwide, through our global network of donors, organizations, and superyachts. Our initiatives engage the yachting community’s generosity and unique assets already in place, to save lives, alleviate suffering, build stronger communities, improve the planet, and create lasting philanthropic footprints across coastal regions worldwide. YAG was founded in 2006 by Captain Mark Drewelow as a charitable extension of his day-to-day business at C2C, Inc, a San Diego-based yacht services agency that provides port facilities and concierge services for vessels, crews and owners. Learn more about YachtAid Global and how we are “Changing the World Without Changing Course” at www.YachtAidGlobal.org

10/14/2026

Members of the YachtAid Global team will once again be at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show as we continue to work as a bridge between superyachts and underprivileged coastal communities around the world.

Since 2006, our collaborative humanitarian, disaster relief, and conservation programs across global coastal regions enable the yachting community to contribute to the world around them and make a lasting positive impact.

If you are attending Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show this year and interested to learn more about YachtAid Global and how you can get involved, stop by the Superyacht Pavilion at 1pm on Thursday October 29th for our presentation on 20 years of YachtAid Global, including specifically how our programs in Antigua alongside the Adrift Film Festival during the antiguacharteryachtshow are supporting the islands’ youth.

10/07/2026

The YachtAid Global team will once again be at the antiguacharteryachtshow supporting our education initiatives of the children and communities of the island of Antigua.

Over the past few years, YAG has been able to make a significant impact thanks to the generosity of participating owners, yachts and crew through purchasing humanitarian items that include:

-teaching and learning supplies
-food for school meal programs
-power tools for schools’ trade programs
-air conditioning units for classrooms

In addition to the donations supporting the island’s schools, YachtAid Global also works with community leaders to identify and support underprivileged families in the area through the donation of family home and hygiene kits.

If you are attending the charter show and or just looking to support our work on the island, please DM us here or email us at [email protected] to learn more about how you can help.

10/02/2026

On this day in 2018, thanks to the support of our donors, YachtAid Global celebrated the opening of the first public library in the Galapagos on Santa Cruz Island. Renovating an existing building and standardizing operations, the first version of the library became an important hub for the community hosting educational events for community members of all ages, and arts and environmental workshops.

Over the past 8 years, what started as a modest donation of books and computers has not only supported the people of the Galapagos, but become and prime example of how the supporting education initiatives around the world can play a significant role in bringing coastal communities together.

To learn more about YachtAid Global and how you can help, visit our website or click the link in our bio.

08/13/2026

Since 2022, Club Náutico San Cristóbal (CNSC) has been working to give local youth in the Galápagos access to sailing, water safety, environmental education, and personal development. More than 250 youth have participated in the sailing programs with the club making great progress this past weekend hosting the first inter-island Optimist regatta in the Galápagos.

This event was designed, not only as a competition, but also as a developmental opportunity for young sailors to better establish a sustainable junior sailing pathway in the islands.

These races brought together 10 junior racers from both CNSC and the Santa Cruz Sailing Club, competing in 10 races over a three day period, rotating the sailors through the 5 Optimist boats to create equal racing conditions with the schools’ limited fleet.

Moving forward, the two sailing clubs are combining their teams to create the first Galápagos sailing team as they hope to be able to participate in the Salinas Sailing Week. This would be a milestone for the island community as it would be the first time a youth sailing program would be able to compete in a sailing event on mainland Ecuador.

To learn more about about Operation Beagle, Club Náutico San Cristóbal, or to make a donation in support of the youth sailing club, visit our website, or click the link in our bio.

08/02/2026

As part of Operation Quartz and our continued support of Mexico, the YachtAid Global team was recently in La Paz alongside participating yacht crew to help complete the next phase of upgrades to a woman’s cancer patient care center. In addition to the many electrical upgrades, the crew constructed a more robust concrete roof for the facility.

The original building was only one floor, lacked the space to meet the community’s needs, and was falling down so this redesign to include a second floor to the facility will help give the patient care center a greater capacity to help the women in the area.

After completing the concrete roof, the YachtAid Global team moved over to work at a local medical free clinic, offering medical, nutritional, and psychological services through its community, to convert a donated truck into office space and two exam rooms.

To finish a very busy and productive trip to La Paz, the team also worked with a local veterinary organization to assist in the sterilization and vaccination of some of the cities stray animals. Like many countries around the world, without clinics assisting in these transformational control programs, the stray animal populations would explode, bringing greater risk to not only the animals well being, but the public health of the communities as well.

To learn more about YachtAid Global and how you can help, click the link in our bio.

06/25/2026

As part of Operation Turu and the continued support of education across French Polynesia, YAG team and participating yacht crew recently delivered teaching supplies to the remote shores of Amanu atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago.

The teaching and learning materials delivered - including iPads, children’s books and a video projector - are very beneficial for the school, enabling them to provide more complete educational opportunities for the island’s children. Many of remote islands that provide such pristine and unparalleled cruising for yachting enthusiasts often lack sufficient resources needed to provide the education required for achieving the youth’s learning, growth and development.

By choosing to work with YachtAid Global, yacht owners, crew and guests not only enhance their own experience of each destination, but also play an unique and important role in supporting the coastal communities that share with us their land, sea and spirit.

06/20/2026

As different regional conflicts and wars erupt impacting vulnerable individuals, the members of the YachtAid Global team and participating yacht crews do what we can during these most challenging times.

Starting in 2022 , in a collaborative effort with yacht crews and local partners, the YachtAid Global established an evacuation corridor along the coast of the Black Sea between Odessa in Ukraine and Romania in order to evacuate thousands of women, children and the elderly directly impacted by the war in Ukraine. In addition, we have been shipping tens of thousands of medical and care packages including needed medications & medical supplies, clothing, non-perishable food items, toys and other supplies across Ukrainian refugee camps in the Romania and Ukraine.

Since the inauguration in 2006, YachtAid Global has completed missions similar to this in support of disasters around the world, engaging the yachting community’s generosity and unique assets already in place to save lives, alleviate suffering, improve the planet, and build stronger coastal communities.

To learn more about YachtAid Global, to donate and or participate visit our website or click the link in our bio.

06/08/2026

One of the best ways to increase chances of future coral survival and abundance is to expand the size of nurseries and diversify locations including deeper water locations thus creating better chances for the survivors of future weather events.

Cades Reef is an extensive reef system located on Antigua’s south-east that provides habitat to a diversity of marine species, supporting important ocean-based economic activities.

Earlier this year, YachtAid Global, alongside participating yacht crew and local coral conservation researchers and scientists conducted field activities in order to expand this important coral nursery, ultimately adding an additional 268 coral fragments on the nursery structure while planting an additional 400 corals to the surrounding reefs.

As a continuation from the work done in 2024, this site will serve as both a nursery site and out-planting site, showcasing the entire process of the reef restoration.

To learn more about Operation Lifestone, YachtAid Global, or to donate to or participate in any of our global operations, visit www.YachtAidGlobal.org or click the link in our bio.

06/02/2026

As we closely monitor the start of a new hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere, in the first half of this year YAG team continues working on recovery and rebuilding from the impacts of the last hurricane season as well. Last year’s hurricane Melissa was the strongest storm of the 2025 season and one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, leaving in its wake catastrophic damage to homes, businesses, and the island’s agriculture and fishing industry across a number of islands in the Caribbean, including Jamaica.

As one of our largest ever disaster relief and build-back-better initiatives to date, over 50 crew members joined us on the ground in Jamaica to engage in the efforts building 15 new starter family homes, repairing and resupplying 28 fishing boats, building new chicken coops and repairing a local community center so that it may reopen quickly to provide support for the people still trying to recover from the devastation.

In addition, humanitarian aid, including freezers, coolers, tools and building supplies, was donated and distributed to the hardest hit areas of the island to support both the local community members and local volunteers and contractors tasked with continuing to rebuild the island’s communities.

For more information on YachtAid Global, or to donate or participate, visit our website, or click the link in our bio.

03/06/2026

In 2018, YachtAid Global opened the first public Library in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, which included building renovations, standardized operations, a small computer lab, and a collection of 1500 books. Since then, the libray has been serving as a hub in the community for:

- Education and Literacy
- Scientific Lectures
- Literature Events
- Arts & Environmental Workshops
- Emergency Preparedness and Support

Over the years, Biblioteca Comunitaria para Galápagos y el Mundo had become evident that an expansion was paramount to continue the success and effectiveness of this popular community library.

In the fall of 2025, thanks to our donors, YachtAid Global was able to not only remodel and expand the library footprint by 50%, a new monitoring system and a handicapped lift.

To learn more about YachtAid Global and our work in the Galápagos Islands with Operation Beagle, or to donate and or participate, visit www.YachtAidGlobal.org or click the link in our bio.

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San Diego, CA
92106

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+16196304626

Website

http://www.yachtaidglobal.org/, https://linktr.ee/yachtaidglobal

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