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| FELICITA WEST CREW |  | | Captain: Fabien Roché | Nationality: British/French | | Number of Crew 12 | | Crew Profiles: Captain - Fabien Roché (British/French, 42)
Fabien started his ‘career’ at sea at the tender age of 3. Born to a French father and Scottish mother, most of his weekends and holidays were spent sailing along Brittany, the Channel Islands and South Coast of the U.K. By the time he turned 7, Fabien lived on a sailboat, studying by correspondence courses. The world’s oceans became his playground: first the Mediterranean aged 7 and 8, and then the Atlantic aged 10, followed by the whole Caribbean from Venezuela to the Virgin Islands for 6 years. Upon completing his A-levels in the U.K., Fabien passed his first Commercial Maritime license in 1987, thereupon sailing for a humanitarian organisation, in charge of navigation, electrics and engineering. Having landed at Réunion Island, Fabien skippered his first charter yacht and consecutively worked on charter and private yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean until the early 1990’s. He then picked up his studies again in view of obtaining his Unlimited Master’s license, which he did in 1996.
Fabien built most of his maritime experience on yachts and cruise ships (sail & power), cruising the world in all kinds of places from Antarctica to the Arctic, and from China to all the way up the Amazon.
Fabien’s hobbies include photography, travelling, geography, cartography, diving, sailing, hiking, skiing, swimming, rock climbing, IT, vintage wines, reading, music, cinema and languages...
First Officer - Iain Cook (British, 32)
Iain has been a professional yachtsman for 12 years working on several prestigious yachts including the mighty Schooner Fleurtje. Iain is a qualified 'Chief Mate' and has always had a love for the sea, spending much of his childhood in and around boats. Iain also has a background in racing and Captained the Bruce Farr designed 'Starr Trail' to win the Heineken Regatta, Caribbean Big Boat Series and a few Ocean Races. His hobbies include Running, Rugby, Yacht Racing and he loves the Formula 1.
Second Officer - Amy Humphries (British, 28)
Amy was originally on track to become an accountant in the UK, but since going travelling after finishing a degree in Accounting and Finance, missing a ferry link in Greece and accepting a lift on a sailing yacht to cross to the islands, she has never looked back.
Amy has now worked in the yachting industry for 6 years and is awaiting examination for the 'Officer of the watch' certification. She is also a PADI certified dive instructor.
She has worked in various roles, such as Divemaster on a 110m Motor Yacht, Second Officer on another Perini Navi and captain of 18m fast sailing catamarans in the Caribbean. In her time off Amy enjoys scuba diving, skiing and snowboarding, cooking, hiking and world travel.
Chief Engineer – James Punton (British, 28)
Jimmy was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He left school to study engineering at college then decided to join the Royal navy as an engineer artificer at the age of 18. After serving over 8 years on various ships and travelling the world, he then decided to move to a career in yachting and has never looked back. He has completed several Mediterranean and Caribbean seasons onboard a large motor yacht as chief engineer before leaving to gain his Y2 license. James lives in England with his wife and his hobbies include listening to music, reading, cinema, snooker, playing the guitar and he has a passion for cars.
Second Engineer - Matthew Stuart
Matthew grew up on a dairy farm in rural New Zealand. He sailed dinghies until turning his attention to rugby. After Matthew completed his apprenticeship as a Mechanical Engineer in a busy ship yard in Nelson he started his travels, beginning in the UK where he got work as a flotilla engineer based on Corfu, Greece. He gain RYA Coastal Skipper Certificate upon returning to the UK. After Matthew worked as a sole engineer on a commercial tuna boat for a period in the Pacific, he worked as sole engineer on a classic motor yacht in the Med. He got the opportunity to sole engineer on the 3 mast ketch cruising the east coast of Australia. Matt headed back to New Zealand to complete his New Zealand Certificate of Competency as Marine Engineer Class 4. Matthew enjoys scuba diving, wakeboarding, fishing and other watersports, he also enjoys playing and watching rugby. Matthew joined Felicita West in March 2009.
Chef - Warrick Dowsett (Australian, 34)
'Wozza' hails from Gunnedah, New South Wales. He began his cooking and yachting careers at about the same time. He was trained in 5 star hotels with City and Guilds certification. His big boat sailing began with the square rigged replica HMAV Bounty. At this time he was developing the philosophy of 'light, simple quality food, all of the time' In doing so his cooking style stayed experimental and predominantly fusion. His major influences are Japanese, Thai, Indian, French and Middle Eastern cuisines. He has always sought adventure and has circumnavigated Australia in a Volkswagen, treasure hunted in the Philippines, raced classic yachts and cycled from Switzerland to Slovakia, as well as sailing Mexico to the Maldives and all in between. He has lived in France, Spain, San Francisco and all over Australia. Wozza loves music with a bite, sky diving, scuba diving, mountain biking and a good sleep in.
Stewardess - Alice McKeown (Irish, 30)
Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Alice joined the yachting industry almost 6 years ago and hasn’t looked back. With a degree in English and Sociology and a Post grad in Business and IT Alice has held the role of Purser throughout most of her yachting career but in the summer of 2008 decided to broaden her horizons, get out of the office as such and get more involved in the Interior side of things which she thoroughly enjoyed. Alice completed a Butler Training course in 2009 and is very much looking forward to putting all her new skills to use on Felicitá West! Apart from her love of sailing Alice’s other passion is music and as a trained singer still very much loves to sing. Alice also loves Fashion, Vintage shopping, good restaurants and wine, reading and pilates.
Bosun - Denmar Nel (South Africa, 24)
Denmar grew up in Durban, South Africa sailing competitively in the Nationals and Provincials with various dinghies and keelboats. With this kind of experience it was only natural that Denmar followed his passion for the ocean and embarked on his career within the yachting industry. His first super yacht was the Perini Navi Lady Lauren with Captain Chris. After 2 years, he experimented with motorboats but with his love of sailing has returned to the Perini family on board Felicita West. Denmar has recently been promoted to Bosun and is excited about fulfilling his new job on deck.
Deckhand - John Fulmer (Canadian, 26)
John was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the East coast of Canada. Spending his childhood sumnmers on the Atlantic Ocean, he developed a love for sailing that has grown ever stronger over the years. After finishing university, he pursued his passion for music production by working as an audio engineer in recording studios. When the temptation of sun, sailing and travel was too great to resist he left North America behind to become a deckhand aboard Felicita West.
He is grateful to be on such a beautiful boat, and plans on honing his skills and adding to his maritime qualifications to, one day, be able to captain his own sailing yacht.
Deckhand - Alec Fraser (British, 18)
Alec grew up by the sea from an early age in his home town of Lymington in the South of England, learning to sail almost as soon as he could walk. Since then, he has sailed dighies up to a national level. After leaving school, Alec decided to get involved in yachting, both as a career and a hobby, so he started work on boats locally, and after acquiring his STCW95 basic qualifications, dinghy instructor and other qualifications, he then stepped into the 'big boat' world on Felicita West.
Alec's interests include sailing, tennis, swimming, football and rugby. And so far he is enjoying his time on big boats....
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