Born and raised in South Auckland New Zealand, Jesse has had a love for the ocean from a young age, fishing, diving and living on his own sailboat for the first few years after high school. Jesse joined the yachting world at the age of 22, starting off as a deckhand in the early days the countless days with chamois in hand grew tiresome and Jesse decided to try his hand at engineering where he has been ever since, working on an array of different boats in locations all over the world.

Jesses hobbies include singing terribly in the engine room, riding motorbikes and the odd bit of diving here and there.

Renee is a Kiwi girl that loves to travel and meet new people. She grew up in a small town, on a dairy farm near the beach, where she learnt to sail and respect the water.

Before Renee started working in the yachting industry, she completed a visual arts degree, in ceramics and photography. When she makes it home, she loves oil painting where most of her time will be dedicated to, she paints mostly abstract art, of the body. Whiling studying Renee worked in fine dining restaurants, starting out as a waitress and worked her way to a hostess and bar manager, which gave her the goal too work towards becoming a chief stewardess onboard yachts.

Renee is very passionate about fine dining and endeavours to provide the finest service to the guests. Wine is another passion of Renee’s, she studies viticulture, viniculture, and vinification in her spare time to become a sommelier in the future. She has a passion for wine pairing and likes to work closely with the chef to give an unforgettable dining experience.

When she’s not working, Renee loves to go hiking and explore the areas we are visi0ng and prac0ces yoga and medita0on. She also studies wine making with hopes to become a sommelier.

Rachael grew up in the English countryside, spending any chance she could outdoors. She developed a love for sculpture at 14 and went on to attend Cambridge School of Art to study Illustration and Animation.

She realized her love for the ocean would define where she lived so at 21 moved to the Caribbean to be a conservation researcher and scuba diver instructor. Each summer she worked as a camp leader, taking groups of teenagers sailing and diving around the world. Through this she found a love for sailing and has made her career combining life on and below the water.

Before becoming Bosun and then Mate onboard larger sail boats, she captained a circumnavigation catamaran exploring off the beaten track destinations running over 100 charters.

In her spare time, she enjoys the waters and the mountains of Mallorca where she now calls home.

Scott has been boating since he was 6 months old, started competitive windsurfing at 15, bought his first keel boat at 19 and spent more than a decade racing as owner/driver in New Zealand’s top one design fleet racing class. His experience in superyachts has taken him around the traditional Mediterranean / Caribbean / Newport circuit but also to far flung places like the Amazon delta, Easter Island and the NZ sub-Antarctic islands.

His strong safety focus has allowed him to sail nearly 200,000 nautical miles worldwide without incident and holds the safety of guest and crew foremost – but also while having fun and encouraging a co-operative team spirit. He loves sharing his love for sailing and the ocean with guests on board.

When he's not working you will find him sailing on his own high performance catamaran somewhere around the Pacific.

Paul was born and raised in Papua New Guinea and first sailed to New Zealand as a teenager visiting amazing places along the way. This first adventure gave Paul a love of sailing and boats in general that would shape his future endeavours. Paul completed his building apprenticeship to a boat builder for some of NZ’s leading superyacht shipyards.

His dream of adventure and being back on the water then bought him in to crewing on yachts, starting as deckhand and progressing quickly through the ranks. Working as Captain and Engineer on both sail and motor yachts he has clocked up more than 200,000nm around the world.

Paul loves to impart his knowledge to crew and guests alike to make their stay on board more of a complete and safe experience. And you’re guaranteed a few good laughs along the way.

Thomas was born in St Tropez, France, where his father was involved in the yacht racing industry building high performance race yachts. His mother was also a keen and avid sailor, teaching him how to sail and windsurf.

During his childhood they moved around sailing locations in France, Spain and England, which introduced him to the world of yachting at a young age. Having completed a Superyacht Cadetship, Thomas is now embarking on his own professional maritime career.

He has done a lot of competitive sailing, competing in Nationals and World Championships on everything from dinghies to small sailing yachts. His real passion is windsurfing, including IQ Foiling, slalom, wave and speed sailing. Long term his goal is to break the UK windsurf speed sailing record.

Georgia grew up on the coast of South Africa surrounded by beautiful mountains and white sand beaches. Naturally growing up by such beautiful scenes Georgia loves to spend her time being active or partaking in adventure around nature.

She bartendered, waitressed and managed in the hospitality for 3 years before taking her skills onboard yachts. In her free time she enjoys many hobbies and sports including yoga which she has her 300hr teacher training certificate and is planning on learning more.

Mathew grew up in Zimbabwe where he first started sailing on optimists. As a strong swimmer and water polo player he developed his skills as a waterman through school taking a particular interest in fishing. Since then he has become an accomplished freediver holding 5 national records.

Mechanically, fixing 2 stroke outboards and motorbike was also necessary skills as spare parts were not easy to come by in that part of the world.
The combination of his passion for anything water based and engineering skills naturally this led him into yachting.

In his spare time, along with surfing and paragliding, Mathew is a spearfishing guide in Mexico where he pursues his primal passion of hunting trophy fish.

Taryne was raised in Durban, South Africa, spending most of her time in the ocean boogie boarding & surfing. She studied graphic and web design and worked for a multimedia production company.

While taking some time off to travel Europe she found her love for food. She took some basic cooking classes and then started her career as a chef on yachts. She continued on to complete her Advanced Diploma in Culinary Training at Silwood School of Cookery.

She now has over ten years experience working on motor and sailing yachts and raced the Transatlantic RORC, Middle Sea race and St Barths bucket. Tayrne has worked at a few recognized restaurants, wine estates, as well as a fine dining safari lodges in South Africa – but her passion is now at sea. In her spare time Taryne loves to travel, surf, hike & mountain bike.