Personal details

Nationality:  French

DOB:  16/03/1968 in Tahiti.

French passport : Exp 01/10/2022.

ENG1 : March 2020

VISA: B1B2 Exp 9 Jan 2024.

Married

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Clean driving licence.

Open water diver.

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I was born in Tahiti, on a family owned charter sailing yacht (DANAE II) this is where I got my love for boats and yachts. I started as a captain just after maritime school in Tahiti. After several years exploring the Tahitians island on Lady Sephora a 72 ft ketch for Stardust Marine, I sail From Tahiti to St Martin via Galapagos and Panama Canal, and to the med for the summer season. I continue my captain career on several luxury yachts, a 65ft catamaran Bonavista for three years from Grenada to New York, a brand new 77 sloop in the West Mediterranean and down to the East Mediterranean, Greece Turkie Croatia and back to the Caribbean Sea several time. I was called by Austal shipyard to take the command of Tia Moana a 227feets luxury yacht in Tahiti for Bora Bora cruise for seven months. With a permanent desire to move up and upgrade my Captain experience I decided to stop sailing on charter yachts and worked as Captain on a high-speed passenger ferry for eighteen months and therefore improved all my safety and security knowledge for passengers and guests.  

                                                                                                               In 2006 I was called by the owner of a super project: the construction of the unique and largest carbon fibber catamaran Allures as project manager, it was a great challenge to get this yacht alive and on the charter market. I operated and managed Allures up to Mars 2011. 

 

In June 2011 I was proposed by Burgess to take over the command of MY Perla Blu for a private owner in  the Med, I operated and managed Perla Blu until October 2012 in Miami.

 

I started as Captain on MY Ability in May 2013 a Mangusta 130 managed by Burgess we had a very buzzy and succesfull charter season this summer.

I managed the ten years clasification survey with the BV in Italy in March 2014.

 

I operated Ability also for the 2014 summer season in the Med , we had a busy summer .

I was in charge of all the winter(2014/2015) maintenances and preparing the yacht for potential new owners.

 Ability was sold in March 2015 to a French owner.

 

The new Abilty was purchased in June 2015 a Baglietto build in 2004 for Mr Roberto&Cavalli .

I organised the complet interior refit in accordance with the new owner in summer 2015,after 7 weeks of refit we managed to sail a couples of weeks with the owner before starting the major external and technical refit during the winter.

We presented Ability at the 2016 MYBA show in Genova .

It was a great experience .

I managed the relocation of Ability in Greece and managed the procedure to obtain a Greek charter license, to operate the yacht in Greece.

Presented Ability for the Naflion boat show in Greece in 2018 with Burgess and with Athens Yachts in 2019.

 

Ability was sold in July 2020 and is now named ROCK 13. I managed a 1,2 millions euros refit in Greece, before shipping the yacht to the US for her new American owner.

 

I started as refit manager and temporary captain on Zig Zag Ocean , to resolve technical and administrative issues on this yacht in Spain 

 

 

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