About Luke · Eighteen years on the water

Before you trust me on your boat,
see where I learned it.

Every skill I teach was learned the hard way first — a pearl fleet in cyclone country, superyachts from the Med to the Pacific, commercial ferries, my own 1979 sloop, and 42 managed boats on San Diego Bay. It’s the experience behind every hour of owner training I run today. Most recent first — follow the line down to where it started.

Follow the path down

2008 · Where it started

Every chapter ends up on your boat.

The maintenance rhythm from the pearling fleet. The standards from the superyachts. The teaching from the island. All of it now goes into one thing — captain-level training and ownership support for owners of 40–90ft vessels, on their own boats, in San Diego.

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