Superyacht Crew Wellbeing & Performance with Cally Cooper | On The Bridge

Superyacht crew wellbeing is no longer a soft conversation. It is directly connected to performance, retention, communication, leadership, safety, and the long-term health of the yachting industry.

In this episode of On The Bridge, Alicia Store, COO of dsnm Ltd, speaks with Cally Cooper, owner and founder of WellCrew, about how yacht crew can be better supported in high-pressure onboard environments.

Cally shares how her background in health, performance, nutrition, coaching, NLP, endurance challenges, and military-linked high-performance environments led to the creation of WellCrew. Her work focuses on helping crew optimize their health, understand their mindset and behaviour, recover properly, communicate better, and perform as stronger teams onboard.

The conversation covers practical tools being used across the industry, including psychometric profiling, stress and recovery data, glucose monitoring, blood work, personalized supplementation, nutrition education, wearable technology, and VR-based seasickness support.

This is not wellbeing as a buzzword. It is about measurable support, healthier crew, stronger teams, better retention, and giving captains, owners, yacht managers, and crew the tools to build a more sustainable future onboard.

This episode explores:
• How WellCrew supports superyacht crew health and performance
• Why crew wellbeing affects retention, leadership, and onboard culture
• The role of psychometric profiling in improving communication and teamwork
• How stress, sleep, recovery, and nutrition can be measured and supported
• Why yacht crew need personalized health strategies, not generic advice
• How seasickness technology could improve life onboard for crew and guests
• What captains, owners, and yacht managers can do to start supporting crew more effectively

Guest: Cally Cooper, Owner & Founder, WellCrew
 Host: Alicia Store, COO, dsnm Ltd
 Series: On The Bridge
 Produced by: Yachting International Radio

Website: www.well-crew.com
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