Who's Who

NautiStyles: A YouTube Channel in Nautical Mode

Victoria and Rico are the creators of NautiStyles, a YouTube channel with more than 500,000 subscribers. During the presentation of a catamaran, we had the opportunity to meet them and discover their story — a nautical and media story, and above all, a story full of adventure.

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Published 11/04/2025

By Dominic Salander

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Issue: 201

Published: june / july 2025

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Multihulls World: How did your story begin?
Victoria: I grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. But I always dreamed of becoming a film director, so at 16, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA film school and pursue my dream. It’s a very competitive business, and to make a living, I started acting in movies and TV shows, soon after transitioning to commercials. I ended up joining the Screen Actors Guild and working in Hollywood for over 20 years, something I would have never imagined my life would be like growing up. As a passion project, I created Fashion Minga, which went on to become the largest audience show during LA Fashion Week.
Rico : I was born and raised in Germany. After four years in the military, I spent six years working as a paramedic with thoughts of becoming a firefighter, but my passion was house music and DJing. Hazards of life sometimes make you want to change direction, and so at the age of 27, having just been accepted into the fire department, I decided to drop everything and move to Los Angeles to pursue my dream of becoming a DJ. It was not an easy path, but I was fortunate enough to make my living doing what I love, playing alongside some of the world’s biggest DJs in major nightclubs and festivals, becoming a resident DJ for Insomniac Events, and even getting to play on the main stage at EDC Orlando, a festival with over 100,000 attendees. I was hired as a DJ on the popular TV show Castle when I met Victoria, and we hit it off immediately.

MW: What brought you to boating?
Rico: When Victoria and I got together, we realized we shared a passion for boating and living on the water. So, I got ASA-certified, we joined a sailing club, started chartering monohulls, and quickly moved up to our dream goal—catamarans. Our plan was to gain enough experience and save some money to buy our own boat to take people on whale-watching trips.
Victoria: In the meantime, I joined a Whale Watching School to become a certified Marine Naturalist, started volunteering at the longest-running migration census observing gray whales, and we got our USCG Captain Licenses while looking for the perfect center console for our charters. During our search, we realized that we could combine our big dream of living aboard with the charter business—so that’s how we ended up buying our first liveaboard Meridian 408 and living on it for eight years, with the plan to step up to a larger catamaran in the future.

MW: What was the turning point in your business?
Rico: As we started to make more connections in the boating industry, one thing led to another, and I ended up opening a yacht management company, which later expanded into a marine dealership, called RJ Nautical.
Victoria: Things were going well - I was still working in Hollywood but had just sold the fashion show business and had a little more time on my hands for another passion project that had been brewing in my head for a while: a nautical blog. I felt there was a big content gap when it came to ...

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