About
More than twenty years of disciplined decision-making in executive leadership and fifteen years of real yacht ownership, brought together in one independent advisory practice.
Led complex transformation, technology strategy, commercial organizations, and major capital investment decisions across Canada and internationally, with extensive experience negotiating multi-million-dollar agreements.
A progression of boats, culminating in extended cruising aboard a North Pacific 43 along the Pacific Northwest coast.
Pelagic advisory engagements are compensated solely through fees paid directly by clients, not through commissions or transaction-based compensation.
Advice informed by firsthand experience buying, selling, and maintaining yachts, and the realities of living aboard, not theory alone.
Background
A career built on disciplined decision-making, now applied to yacht ownership.
For more than 20 years, Owen Haley has held senior executive leadership positions responsible for leading complex organizational transformation, technology strategy, governance, and major capital investments.
His executive career has included serving as Senior Vice President & General Manager, International; Vice President; Chief Commercial Officer; and Chief Transformation Officer. In these roles, he led complex business and technology transformation initiatives, major capital investments, organizational change, and multidisciplinary teams across Canada and internationally.
His senior executive roles also carried significant commercial responsibility, giving him extensive hands-on experience negotiating and closing multi-million-dollar agreements.
Over the past 15 years, Owen has bought, sold, and owned a progression of boats, gaining firsthand experience with the rewards and realities of ownership. Today, he spends extended periods living aboard and cruising the Pacific Northwest on a North Pacific 43, while continuing his executive consulting practice remotely.
That experience has provided a practical understanding of the realities of ownership: selecting the right yacht, managing operating costs, maintenance planning, equipment reliability, weather routing, anchoring, and extended cruising.
Pelagic Advisory was founded to bring that same disciplined decision-making approach to yacht ownership. Unlike traditional brokerage, Pelagic provides independent advice designed to help owners make informed decisions before purchasing, throughout ownership, and when planning their eventual sale.
Pelagic Principle
The quality of the outcome is determined long before the decision is made.
Successful decisions require objective analysis, disciplined planning, thoughtful risk management, and a clear understanding of long-term trade-offs before significant investments are made. That same philosophy shapes Pelagic Advisory today.
Principles
Common Questions
Every client advisory engagement is provided for a flat, transparent fee paid directly by the client. Pelagic does not receive commissions or transaction-based compensation arising from a client's purchase or sale.
No. Pelagic Advisory is strictly an advisory practice and does not execute yacht purchases or sales. If a client requires transaction services, those services are handled separately from the Pelagic engagement.
Yes. Pelagic Advisory Ltd holds a 50% ownership interest in YachtSee, a separate business that offers both a self-listing app for yacht sellers and traditional yacht brokerage services, and that relationship is disclosed here because independence matters. Pelagic does not receive a referral fee or commission for directing a client to YachtSee. Through its ownership interest, Pelagic Advisory Ltd may indirectly share in YachtSee's overall financial performance, including where a Pelagic client independently chooses to transact through YachtSee. Pelagic clients are under no obligation to use YachtSee, and Pelagic's advisory engagement remains separate from any yacht transaction. Recommendations are based on what Pelagic believes is in the client's best interests, regardless of who ultimately handles the transaction.
Every engagement begins with a brief intake conversation to understand your situation and confirm Pelagic is the right fit before any formal engagement begins.
Yes. All inquiries and engagements are treated as confidential.