I grew up moving — plane, train, motor-home, and sailboat across more than 45 countries. The boat became home: 10,000+ nautical miles under my feet across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. I've stood sub-captain watches on Med coastal runs and a full Atlantic passage.
Alongside sailing I built SurfaBabe — a natural products brand I founded and still run — and before that, a henna body-art business. Running both taught me what marina paperwork doesn't: how to make guests feel something, and how to sweat every detail of their experience.
I'm looking for crew work on the right boat — Med summer, Caribbean winter. I can take a watch at three in the morning, run the tender through a rolly anchorage, brief a dive, teach sunrise yoga on the foredeck, entertain the kids in three languages (trained coaching ages 5–15 on the Waikiki water-sports program), and still serve lunch with a smile.
Sailing, safety, diving, wellness. A three-crew cat doesn't need to hire a dive instructor or a yoga teacher; I arrive with both already qualified.
Commercial-endorsement-eligible offshore skipper qualification. Passage planning, offshore nav, and command up to 200GT within 150nm of safe haven.
Advanced sail cruising licence — skippering coastal and offshore passages by day and night, including pilotage and passage planning at the next level up from Day Skipper.
Practical sail cruising licence — passage planning, navigation, and safe pilotage of yachts up to 20m in tidal waters by day and night.
Commercially endorsable powerboat competence — tender ops, guest transfers, and powered small-craft handling in all conditions.
Marine radio operator's licence — Short Range Certificate. DSC procedures, GMDSS basics, routine/distress/urgency/safety traffic.
Mandatory commercial crew basic safety: personal survival, firefighting, elementary first aid, personal safety & social responsibility. With PSA.
Five adventure dives incl. deep, navigation, performance buoyancy. Dive supervision for guest experiences.
Self-rescue, buddy assists, unresponsive-diver scenarios and dive-emergency management. The ticket captains actually care about once guests are in the water.
Enriched-air nitrox — extended no-deco limits and safer repetitive diving. Emergency First Responder: CPR, AED, primary & secondary care.
Registered 200-hour yoga teacher. Hatha & vinyasa sequencing, anatomy, trauma-aware practice. Sunrise sessions, post-dive stretch.
I founded SurfaBabe at sixteen. It's a surf lifestyle brand — gear, content, community — and I still own and run it every day I'm not on a boat. It's how I learned hospitality before the word made it onto my CV.
Why this matters to a charter captain: running a brand teaches you what guests actually want before they ask. You learn presentation. You learn that a small detail is the whole experience. You learn that the product is the memory.
Reliable, sharp, and a natural problem-solver. Ailie delivers — on the product, with the people, at every step.
Stood her watches, ran the tender, briefed the guests. Eighteen going on thirty — trust her on the boat.
We booked the yoga. We got a crew member who ran the whole water-sports day. Extraordinary value.