I started my career as a mate aboard gaff-rigged, traditional sailing vessels before becoming a yachting instructor teaching RYA courses and yacht racing in the UK. I am the former CEO of a premier yacht training school in the USA and I am a large yacht captain (3000 GRT) with both private and charter yacht experience. I started writing and blogging in order to encourage open discussion on topics that are often ’the word on the teak’ aboard yachts I have operated, and I established Yacht E Skills in 2019, in order to provide a search platform for crew to easily locate information amid the abundance of useful knowledge and tutorials on the web.
