EXPERIENCE
- QUALIFIED BOAT
BUILDER
- MASTER CLASS
4
- MARINE ENGINE
DRIVER 2
- IYT/MCA INTERNATIONAL
YACHT MASTER
- MCA/RYA YACHT MASTER SAIL
- MCA/RYA YACHT MASTER MOTOR
-
AYF SAILING INSTRUCTOR
- STCW
Completing a Boat Building trade at Lloyds
Ships Pty Ltd in Brisbane and working on the construction and delivery
of some of Australia’s finest
motor yachts, such
as Southern Cross, Mirage 3 and Achilles 2, has given Peter valuable
experience in the operation and running of luxury private vessels. This
experience and knowledge has been further developed over subsequent
years by acting as operations manager for a large ferry and cruise
company, project manager on vessel refits as well as skippering and
delivering many vessels. He is currently still very involved in the
luxury yacht arena acting as relief skipper and captains companion on
super yachts within Australia and the pacific.
Peter has also been heavily involved in sailing in
many national and state championships and still compete today in ocean
races and dinghy competitions.
SEAMANSHIP
For the past 20 years, building and skippering
boats has been not just a career but a passion.
Over these
years he has been operating vessels from outboard powered boats, jet
boats to large ocean racing yachts, private luxury vessels and
commercial cruise vessels, both mono hulls and multi hulls.
Starting his sailing career in dinghies, racing
Cherubs and 12 foot skiffs, he stepped into 18 foot skiffs racing onboard Mr
Juicy at an elite national level. By the age of 23 years Peter was
skippering 60 foot ocean racing yachts and later racing on some of
Australia’s fastest sailing multi hulls. Since then he has competed in
several Sydney to Hobart, Brisbane to Gladstone, Melbourne to Hobart
yacht races as well as many other ocean races. Peter is still competing
today in state and national dinghy
competitions and many ocean races.
At present Peter acts as a relief captain on a regular basis on large
luxury motor yachts including vessels such as "Ophelia V".
This experience and knowledge has been further
developed in recent
years by
successfully and safely delivering vessels from Australia to New
Zealand,
completing 34 Bass Straight crossings and numerous East Coast
deliveries, all without incident. Peter currently operates a variety of
vessels including yachts, the latest high speed cataramans and private
luxury vessels on a very regular basis as a contract skipper in
Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.