About Andrew

Andrew holds a USCG 100-ton license. He grew up sailing in the Pacific Northwest waters around Victoria, British Columbia. An avid dinghy racer, he started teaching at his father’s sailing school when he was 14 and in 1972, at age 16, sailed aboard an old Hilliard-designed ketch from Victoria to San Diego, beginning a life-long appreciation for offshore sailing.

Since then he has logged more than 350,000 miles as a delivery skipper and owner of Adventure Sailing, a company he started to introduce sailors to offshore sailing using the Nautor Swan charter fleet. He is an excellent navigator using traditional and modern methods and is familiar with the waters of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, both coasts of North and Central America from Alaska and Nova Scotia to the Panama Canal, and Cape Town, South Africa.

Having completed seven trans-Atlantic passages and three Panama Canal transits, he has captained boats as diverse as a production 31-foot sloop designed for the charter trade, catamarans, and a 110-foot Broward motor yacht.

He has never had an insurance claim on any boat in his charge.