Captain Mark Fife

Mark graduated from Arizona State University and took post graduate courses through Harvard University’s extension program. He spent the early years of his working life as an executive in several Computer and Telecommunications companies during which he played a major role in taking three of them public. Mark transitioned to the Maritime Industry in 1999 and graduated from the Maritime Institute. He currently holds a USCG 100 Ton Masters license with sailing and towing endorsements. He also possesses the following endorsements: STCW 95, First Aid, Survival, Fire Fighting, AED, Unlimited Radar and ECDIS endorsements. Mark carries a valid TWIC card and USA Passport. Early in his maritime career he was involved with Anheuser Busch, sailing his Catalina 42MKII with customized sails and logo on the hull four days a week. He has delivered numerous yachts within the USA and Internationally. In addition, he operated a charter cruise operation under his company Attitude Adjustment Sailing Adventures. Furthermore, he worked as a rigger in Galveston TX, a commercial fisherman in California and a Licensed Yacht salesperson in San Diego for Ensign Yachts. Captain Fife has thirty years of experience and has sailed extensively from Alaska to Peru, including the Panama Canal with multiple trips to Hawaii. He also has experience in the Atlantic Ocean having sailed throughout South East including Florida, the Bahamas, Caribbean, ICW, and Bermuda.

Captain Bill Moreland

Captain Bill Moreland has been sailing for over 38 years and holds a U. S. Coast Guard Master’s License with a Sailing Endorsement. His sailing adventures include the British Virgin Islands, the Sea of Abaco in the Bahamas, the East Coast, the Puget Sound and San Juan Islands in Washington State. Captain Bill has also delivered boats up and down the West Coast. Following a successful corporate career as a senior operations executive, Bill has put his sailing credentials to work as a Charter Captain on all types and sizes of vessels. In addition, he has taken his passion for sailing and is sharing it with others as an American Sailing Association Certified Instructor in the beautiful San Francisco Bay … where sailing is always a great day.

Captain Jack Buckley

US Coast Guard 200 Gross Ton Master
Jack is a USCG 200 Gross Ton Master who has owned and lived aboard a variety of vessels including a 38’ Mediterranean Sportfisher, 41’ Irwin Ketch, 55’ Custom Steel Ketch, and a 60’ Custom Dutch Built Ketch on which he has lived aboard a total of nearly 30 years.
In addition to operating his own boats for charter, he also has Captained numerous vessels including the “Cherie Amie”, 75’ 130 passenger vessel, the “Californian”, 130’ CA state sailing ship, the “Limit Stalker”, 85’ Naval Research Vessel, and he is the Captain of “San Salvador”, 100’ Replica of Juan Rodriguez ship that discovered San Diego Bay.
Captain Jack and his crew completed a significant vessel relocation from the British Virgin Islands to Toronto, ON Canada. This trip involved multiple steps and included passages through the St. Lawrence Seaway and the locks prior to the difficult passage through the Thousand Islands area. In addition, Captain Jack has experience from Panama to California and from Halifax NS Canada to Florida and on to Panama.
He has also been responsible for hundreds of sailboats and powerboats being successfully relocated safely and undamaged over the last 23 years and over 20,000 miles of yacht deliveries and passages, extensive sailing and power-boating, East Coast, Boston, Long Island Sound, New York Harbor, Maryland, Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean Islands. Panama. Central America, Mexico and California.

Daniel Girard

Captain Danny grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been around the water his whole life. Growing up in one of the many small fringe towns that surround the greater San Francisco Bay Area allowed him the opportunity to grow up with strong ethics and morals and a can do “Attitude”. In 2014, Danny graduated from CSU Monterey Bay with a major in Communication and minor in Business. In 2018, he received his STCW-95 “Basic Training” from TRLMI. The STCW 95 (Standards of Training Certification on Watch-keeping for Seafarers) training includes; First Aid & CPR, basic firefighting, personal survival techniques, and personal safety and social responsibilities. In 2022, Captain Danny received his 100GT Masters and spends the majority of his time running charters on large motor yachts in Southern California.
Captain Girard has been exposed to a great deal in the three years he has been delivering yachts. He has completed four Pacific crossings totaling just over 11,000nm in total. One delivery from Oahu to Vancouver British Columbia Canada on an XC-50 and another from San Diego to Oahu on a Catalina 380 as well as two passages onboard a 37’ Hallberg-Rassey, one from La Paz Mexico to Oahu, HI and continuing on from Oahu, HI to Seattle, WA (6,030nm). He has also made many coastal deliveries between La Paz Mexico and Wrangle Alaska including the inside passage through Southeastern Alaska. Many of these deliveries were owner onboard and included deliveries from Ventura, CA to Sequim, WA on a Carver 500 CMY and a 46’ Hallberg-Rassey sailing vessel relocated, also with owner aboard, from Ensenada Mexico to Sausalito, CA. Danny, also, has extensive experience serving onboard larger vessels including a Lagoon 620 Catamaran, President 107’ Mega Yacht, and Sunseeker 76’. As of August 2022 Captain Girard has well in excess of 20,000nm at sea. Recently, he completed multiple deliveries between British Columbia and Washington State repatriating USA flagged vessels trapped in Canada due to the Corona virus. A few of these yachts included a Defever 44, Cabo Rico 42 and an XC-50. He has also completed a delivery along the Inside Passage from Wrangell Alaska to Vancouver, BC. Canada as well as navigating in the St. Lawrence seaway and most all of the waters leading into and out of the Great Lakes associated with the seaway.

In total, Danny is approaching 30,000nm at sea and has learned a great deal including navigation, standards for watchkeeping, diesel engine
 maintenance and repair, AC/DC electrical, marlinspike seamanship, sail trim, radar ops, and a host of other subjects such as meteorology and VHF/ SAT communications.
When you can’t find Danny on the sea, you’re sure to find him on a golf course.