Simon was born and raised on the Channel Island of Guernsey. He began sailing at the tender age of nine, racing Mirror dinghies at the Guernsey Yacht Club. Simon trained with the British Commonwealth Swim team and is a British Sub Aqua Association certified diver. After completing school, Simon worked as a boat builder before attending John Moors University in Liverpool, England, where he graduated in Oceanography. Simon returned to Guernsey to manage a marina and it was here that he discovered his future as a yacht captain. He passed the RYA (MCA) Yachtmaster captains course and has not looked back. Simon has now been sailing a wide variety of yachts including a 150ft classic schooner, multihulls like Indigo and performance race yachts for 10 years. He has raced with the British Army team in the Solent and in the Swan Rolex Regatta and the Americas Cup Jubilee in Cowes. Simon has many years of charter experience in waters as diverse as Alaska, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the east coast of the USA and Nova Scotia. He is active and has an adventurous spirit and a love of water sports of all kinds.