A real refit, filmed, by people doing the work themselves
CQS Evidence is the rebuild of a 1979 CNSO Mikado ketch by two people who had never done it before, and the circumnavigation that follows. Everything is documented: what worked, the mistakes, the invoices. That is why people watch.
Why your brand belongs here
Our viewers are not watching pictures of the sea. They are watching someone fit skin fittings, wire a 24 V lithium bank, strip a hull at the weekend. They are boat owners, or people about to become one. When a product appears, it appears in real use, in our hands, with its flaws.
A marine equipment maker does not need a huge audience. It needs the right one — and credible use, filmed over time, rather than an unboxing in a studio.
What we can do
Integration into an episode
Your equipment gets fitted for real, on the boat, in a job that was going to happen anyway. We explain the choice, the installation and what got in the way. A format we have already run with SVB on the electrical system episode.
A long-term test
We take your product on board and come back to it six months later, a year later, after a passage. It is the rarest and the most convincing format — because it can go badly.
Technical content
An article or a video explaining a subject in depth — sizing a battery bank, choosing a seacock, protecting a circuit — in which your range naturally has its place.
The audience, not rounded up
The channel opened in November 2025. It is young and it is small — but it is made up of exactly the people you sell to. Here are the raw figures, as YouTube gives them.
809
subscribers, in 10 months
64
videos published
4,400
views over 28 days
46.4%
returning viewers
Who watches
| 45 and over | 55.1% |
| 35–44 | 24.9% |
| 25–34 | 20.1% |
| Men | 82.9% |
| No dependent children | 78.6% |
From where
| France | 74.7% |
| Switzerland | 0.6% |
| Other countries | under 0.5% |
What they actually watch
The affinity categories YouTube publishes shift from month to month and follow the season: over the last window they are no longer boating-related. We would rather not build an argument on them. What does not shift is what these people watch: long technical episodes, on a real refit, from start to finish.
Total watch time is 163 hours over 28 days, with an average view duration of 5 minutes 3 seconds and 33.7% of each video watched. On episodes that often run past twenty minutes, that is a signal of real attention, not of passing traffic.
Source: YouTube Studio, media kit of 16 September 2026. 28-day window except for subscribers and the number of videos. These figures are verifiable, and we supply them up to date on request.
The audience is French-speaking today. This English version of the site exists because the subject — rebuilding an old boat yourself, with the figures — travels further than the language does, and because our videos carry subtitles.
Already with us
SVB Marine supply part of the equipment for the refit — skin fittings, seacocks, parts of the electrical system — and they are the supplier we have used since the start of the project. The collaboration is declared in the videos and articles concerned.
Their MyBoat platform is the tool we wish we had had on day one of the refit: you create a record for your boat, place your equipment on an interactive plan so you know what is fitted and where, and find the other owners of the same model. On a 1979 sailboat whose installation you discover by taking it apart, that kind of memory is worth a great deal.
A code for anyone following the refit
Order from SVB-Marine.fr with the code CQSEVIDENCE and a free item goes in the parcel with your order, your choice — strap, bucket hat, cap, glasses retainer. No minimum spend and no end date.
SVB is a partner of the project. We write it here as we say it in the videos.
One brand at this stage, and we would rather write it that way than pad the list. The space is open.
What we will not do
Recommend a product we have not used. Hide that a piece of content is sponsored. Cut what went wrong out of a video. Our audience follows us because we show the trouble — a partnership that requires cutting it destroys exactly what you came for.
Let us talk
Tell us what you sell and what you are trying to show. We come back with a concrete proposal: which episode, which format, which timing.