meet promenades crew

Richard and Lisa work as a great team on Promenade running the charters for the past two seasons. Their youth and enthusiasm will win you over! They have found a boat they love, and it all has to do with the relaxed and professional attitude of the Promenade way! Owners Kerry and Bazza are on charters with them when requested or when Richard and Lisa take holidays! Richard and Lisa are joined by a third crew member.

Kerry runs the business end year round, and Bazza takes care of the engineering. As a team, we all work together to ensure that you have a wonderful time on our yacht.

Richard Rome is a Marine Coastguard Agency Licensed Yacht Captain and PADI Dive Master, born in Portsmouth, England, the home of yachting in the UK where his love for the sea and outdoor life began. Richard has an extensive marine back ground from engineering, boat building, to teaching sailing. Richard has traveled the seas of the Mediterranean working as a charter skipper, done deliveries including trans-Atlantic crossings and has even been a captain of a semi submarine in Grand Cayman! Besides sailing Richard has many other talents, he can turn a hand to the galley, having worked as second chef at a ski hotel in Europe, he will delight you with his fresh caught Tuna for cocktail hour or ask him about his renowned after dinner Irish coffees! Richard loves any thing to do with the water from the high adrenaline sport of kite surfing to gentle kayak safaris in the shallows. He is a keen fisherman and will be happy to teach you all you need to know to catch a tarpon, mackerel or shark!

Lisa Dixon was originally schooled in the UK and holds a bachelor of honours in Nursing. While travelling after finishing University, Lisa learned to dive and never looked back! She become a PADI Instructor in Thailand and has managed dive shops from Australia to Bermuda. While diving in Croatia, Lisa was introduced to yachts and Richard and this opened up a whole new career. Richard and Lisa spent two seasons as Skipper and  Stewardess/flotilla leader in Greece. Deciding that they could work and live together, they changed locations and headed off to the Caribbean, and the rest is history! For several years Lisa worked for a catering company in the UK, where she was able to develop and expand her culinary expertise, providing a range of speciality foods for a variety of occasions. Her menus are inspired from her travels all over the world, with Greek being a particular favorite. Lisa has a keen knowledge of the underwater world as well as the spots to go in the British Virgin Islands and looks forward to making your holiday as enjoyable as possible above and below the water. Both Richard and Lisa are keen underwater photographers.

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My jobs ranged from short order cook in a bowling alley to a hospital operating room technician until I found a love of boating!. While traveling and working in New Zealand I landed a job on a fishing boat as a cook and "fish sizer"
After returning home from New Zealand and working on land for about 6 months I realized that I missed the water. I traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, took up residence at a crew house, and began to "walk the docks". My first job was on the 168' Monte Carlo. I began as a day worker while the boat was undergoing refit and I was hired on as crew after 5 weeks. Interestingly enough, just before the Yacht was due to make its first voyage the Captain quit. I quickly learned that if a Captain leaves, so does his crew. So back to day work, but only for a few days!
Onto a 74' Sunseeker based out of Connecticut, called, Sunsation. This is where I really learnt what it means to work on a Yacht. I was as green as they come!! But I caught a break with a retired boat captain who taught me the ropes and I learnt all about the huge maintenance demands that go into keeping a yacht in great shape. After the summer in New England, I helped deliver the boat down south, where I learnt many things about navigation and loved the experience. I then went along on a delivery from Key West to Naples where the captain was kind enough to allow me to chart the voyage!
Because of an ongoing injury, I was forced to return to Canada to rehabilitate, and after I was healed, I undertook a month long trip to Honduras with my father working with "habitat for humanity" and then I backpacked for a further 4 months. While in Nicaragua, I learnt how to spear fish AND how hard surfing was! I loved the water so much I took my open water SCUBA course in Panama.
I returned to Canada and started a new career in the Oil Patch in Northern Alberta, I enjoyed the people and what my job, but I cannot wait to get back on the water with Yacht Promenade and learn more about boating!
I enjoy being active as much as possible. Back home I loved the winter. My winter sports were; every kind of hockey, Snowfering (wind-surfing on frozen lakes) and down hill canoeing, a personal favorite of mine. During the summer my favorite activities are all to do with the water as well.

meet the owners

Kerry Lynn Hucul-Cooper originally trained in advertising and public relations for large hotels and dinner theaters. After living and working in various countries, from England, Belgium and Germany to Canada, the United States and Mexico, she operated a successful restaurant for six years before deciding that a different way of life was definitely in order. After teaching SCUBA and kayaking in the Bay of Fundy's frigid waters, she decided to make her trips south a permament way of life.Over the past ten years with Promenade, Kerry has completed many Caribbean yacht charters. Kerry holds her MCA Yachtmaster Offshore, is STCW95 compliant and has been a SCUBA Instructor for many years, with thousands of dives with underwater photography being a particular passion. She is very eager to share her part of charter paradise with you. Kerry mostly runs the business end of the charters nowadays, and helps out Lisa with the cooking while onboard. She has a passion for the out of the way spots in the British VIrgin Islands that she has learnt over the years.

Barry(Bazza) Hucul-Cooper originally hails from Australia and has been sailing for 30 years. Baz spent 20 year in trade school for various mechanics, holds about 14 different papers for welding to diesel mechanic, and as well has built several boats, including Alley Cat, a 37 foot catamaran that he sailed around the east coast of Australia for 18 months. Besides the fact that he can sail or fix anything on a yacht, he is an avid SCUBA diver and has a love of seeing new places. Bazza not only holds a local British Virgin Islands captains licence, but was the first person to obtain a MCA approved engineering license here in the British Virgin Islands. Bazza is a PADI SCUBA instructor and has an excellent old bottle collection that he has spent many hours underwater looking for. The upgrade in quality and innovations he has brought to the yacht over the years is amazing. Bazza mainly does the engineering side of the yacht nowadays, keeping it in top notch condition.

You can be assured that you will receive truly caring, friendly and professional service at all times. We look forward to welcoming you to our tranquil piece of paradise.