Welcome to our life!

We are a fun couple who have worked, traveled and lived together for over 25 years. We are both adventurous by nature, so working on private and charter sailing mono-hulls, catamarans and powerboats, have allowed us to keep that adventure going. We have explored throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the United States, the Pacific, across the Atlantic, Australia and more.  Throughout our travels, we have had fun, laughter and met people from all walks of life. We have also experienced tragedy and loss. We have survived and our positive spirits have remained.

We are no longer working on boats but the adventure hasn’t stopped as we continue to sail and explore on our boat, S/Y Gypsy Blue, a Beneteau 46 monohull.  People are always telling us we should ‘write a book’.  This is the start of sharing our stories and our adventures with you as we go.  

To help navigate this web site:

  • Below are random pictures of our life.
  • The ‘Stories of the Bilge’ page has our stories (our blog).  
  • The Galley page has some favorite recipes.
  • To the right of the page you can see how to purchase our first book, Tamarin of Tortola.  You can choose to purchase either by PDF through a download or via Amazon.
  • Tropic Wind Yacht Charters is our crewed yacht charter brokerage.  As experts in the crewed yacht business we arrange customized, all inclusive charter boat vacations.   This is the way you can have your own adventure vacation on the water.  Check it out!

Please read on and share our journey.   And stay in touch for the books in our future.  We would love to hear about your adventures as well.

Just living the adventure,

Max and Whitey