The SeaScape Team

Here's what makes us really different - our SeaScape team!

Variously English, American, Australian or Canadian—we're quite the international potpourri! For each of us, sailing is a central part of our lives, a deliberately chosen path away from the mainstream. We love it and we love to share it with others too. (And perhaps we can entice a few more folks away from the "rat-race" and add more notches to our mast...:>)

But I can sail already - why would I want a skipper?

Read on down to meet all our SeaScape Team Members ...

Here's what our past sailors have to say


	Skipper Di— also affectionately known by those who sail in her Aegean realm as "The Goddess Diana," or "Mother Hen"! After completing a degree in Psychology at Sussex University (UK), she spent her early years vascillating between boat-bumming and the software industry. An increasing gathering of potential sailors wanting to join her trips to Greece inspired her to take the plunge and buy our first boat "Vassilis" - and so SeaScape was born! Her long-held belief in a down-to-earth, "no-glossy-brochure-speak" approach came into it's own even more with the advent of the internet and mobile communications. With the dubious honour of being amongst the first to purchase a cellphone modem in Greece (getting it working was another matter!) - she finally realised her vision of being able to communicate directly and personally with potential sailors - straight from the boat(s) to your home/office. Whenever she's not actually at the helm of her first "baby", Vassilis - she can usually be found attached at the hip to her laptop, still eternally online! Greece and Turkey are now well-established, but Diane's itchy-feet syndrome hasn't abated— she continues to head up new sailing explorations - our new 55' catamaran in Thailand being the latest cool addition to our SeaScape family!
Our technical manager demonstrates his finely-honed engineering skills on a bottle of champagne	Cap'n Ray, one of our engineers-run-away-to-sea; or perhaps he is regressing, as he started his teenage years as a marine engineer trainee. From the age of 12, he was sailing on clinker built cutters and whalers in the UK; shortly afterwards, heading across the oceans as an engineer on super-tankers. A varied career has followed, including skippering flotillas for a certain well-known competitor, leading teams of young people on volunteer missions overseas... and his latest endeavors in heading up a team developing new technology lasers for eye surgery in Australia. As our technical manager, Ray is responsible for all our little fleet; ie, if it doesn't work, it's his problem! When asked to write some of his own bio, he claims that he is a "quiet and insular character who likes to get to bed early; not keen on socialising but will do so when necessary". If you sail on his boat, you'll soon learn not to take a single word he says seriously...
	Another escapee to Peter Pan Land... Skipper Rob stowed his law degree in the cupboard, and took off for a double-handed transatlantic at 22! An attempt at returning to London suit-and-tie land lasted a short while, but the call of the sea kept enticing him away to various sailing instructor/skipper roles around the world. To keep his intellectual hand in, Rob designs websites and databases in the "off-season"; and for some masochistic reason, felt a need to get a couple of Fastnet races under his belt in recent years too. Staunch devotee of The Cricket and Proper Queen's English, Old Chap! - Rob is also our finest bacon-and-eggs chef (even after a night defending his position as reigning Flaming Lamberghini Champion at the infamous Savana Bar!).
v	Iain A big welcome to the latest edition to our motley crew! In a previous life, known to his shipmates as Tug Wilson, Iain got the chance to sail round the world as a stoker on board frigates in the British Royal Navy. The next episode saw him serving in wellies for 6yrs as a firefighter near his home town of Bristol (SW England). After very roundabout route sailing from the UK via France, the West Indies and Australia, Iain finally ended up in New Zealand, where he is currently a sailing instructor for ìWindy Wellingtonísî most prestigious yacht club. When not out on the water instructing, racing or cruising around NZís stunning coastline on his own yacht, Iain is never far from the water, probably in a boatshed, and more than likely tinkering with something boaty.

	Judy— another of our team who had enough of the 9-to-5, she retired from her life as a telecommunications manager a few years ago, and now has much more time to spend on one of her main passions in life - travel ! It was the travel bug which brought her out to Greece 9yrs ago, to join one of our shareboat trips; since then, she and her husband have enticed several boatloads of other friends to return and sail with us! As she was doing such a great job for us anyway! - we enticed Judy to come join us "officially". So now part of the SeaScape Team too, Judy is the person you'll talk to if you call our Seattle office; she'll happily share her many travel experiences around the Greek isles and Turkey. Judy exploring the ruins in her favourite part of the Aegean, Turkey
Robert, our Accountant Afloat	Robert—our Australian accountant and business manager, keeps us afloat financially. Not your ordinary accountant, Robert sold out of his high-pressure city partnership some years ago, preferring a more balanced life of private practice and spending as much time as possible afloat - whether on his own yacht in Sydney, the SeaScape yachts in Greece/Turkey, or sometimes running our winter expeditions to the Whitsundays, New Zealand, the Seychelles, and recently Thailand too ! His other passion in life is the piano; Mr Cool Entertainer has been known to amaze our sailboat neighbours many a time by setting up a mobile "Piano Bar" actually on board! Have Piano, Will Travel - not a bad motto! Teaching non-aussies how to say "G'day Mate!" properly is another of his hobbies... Besides running the SeaScape finances, Robert also looks after our Sydney base; so if you are also DownUnder, you can call up and talk to him directly about our trips! Care to join us, and run away to sea too??