Built by Crew.
Designed for Owners.
Vessel & Co. was not built from a business plan. It was built from years on the water.
The People Behind the Standard.
Captain John Garza
100 Ton Captain. Dive Master. Underwater photographer whose work has appeared on magazine covers and marine conservation campaigns. Over ten years at the helm.
Before Vessel & Co., John co-founded Ocean Outcasts — an expedition company that ran trips to Mexico, Hawaii, and Tonga, putting people face-to-face with the ocean. He captained a 50-foot Lagoon in the Bahamas before taking the helm of M/Y Hülya, a Lagoon 630 motor catamaran he and Hannah built into the proving ground for everything V&C would become.
John has spent seven years studying shark behavior firsthand. He's a spearfisher, a cinematographer, and the kind of captain who knows which sandbar appears at low tide and where the hammerheads run in February. He doesn't manage from a distance — he built the Standard from the water up.
Hannah Patten
Chef. Dive Master. Yoga instructor. Underwater photographer. Creator of Hülya Swim — a bikini line made from recycled ocean plastics. Five-plus years of yachting service, and the person responsible for the fact that no two table settings aboard a V&C vessel are ever the same.
Hannah co-founded Ocean Outcasts with John, ran expeditions across the Pacific, and then poured everything she learned into Hülya — where she built the guest experience system that became the Vessel Standard. Every themed dinner, every scavenger hunt, every moment where a nervous snorkeler becomes a confident freediver by day three — that's Hannah's design.
She doesn't just run the brand. She is the brand.
Before Vessel & Co.,
There Was Hülya.
A Lagoon 630 motor catamaran in the Exumas where two things became clear: guests don't remember specs — they remember how a week made them feel. And the difference between a forgettable charter and an unforgettable one isn't the boat. It's the system behind it.
Themed pirate nights at Compass Cay. Scavenger hunts through the cays. A freediving program that turned nervous snorkelers into confident divers by day three. Every detail intentional. Every week better than the last.
That's where the Vessel Standard was born — not in a boardroom, but on the water. Hülya was the proving ground. Vessel & Co. is the company that grew from it.
Hülya means “daydream” — the everlasting daydream we are all chasing.
John and Hannah Are Professional
Underwater Photographers.
Their work has appeared on magazine covers and in marine conservation campaigns. Every image on this site — every eagle ray, every whale encounter, every sunset at anchor — was captured by them.
When we say we know this world, this is what we mean.
We publish when there is
something worth saying.
No schedule. No filler.
V&C Isn't Just
John and Hannah.
It's a Bahamas-based operations network: compliance and flag state expertise, local provisioning relationships, marine maintenance crews, and a growing roster of captains and chefs trained to the Standard.
Every vessel under management gets the full weight of the network. Not a diluted version of it.
Captain Sammy
Chef Marisol
“We separate experience from chaos. Because we all know the Bahamas is chaos.”
The Vessel Standard™ is the system we built to make magic repeatable — the operational infrastructure that protects your asset and delivers on every promise the brand makes.
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