Catamaran Winters Coming

Melissa:

Melissa was born and raised in Phoenix Arizona. Her passion for traveling started at a young age through multiple family vacations to many interesting destinations and after 20+ years of traveling around the world her passion for discovering new places and meeting new people hasn’t slowed down!

After graduating from University in Arizona, Melissa began a successful career in sales. In her free-time she enjoyed cooking, a passion that is in constant evolution every time she travels around the world and discovers new ingredients and plates. After living abroad for so long she tries to incorporate international dishes and fresh ingredients in all her meals.

Summers spent on the east coast of the US developed her love for the ocean but her passion for sailing was only realized on a trip to the Caribbean years ago.

She has run charters throughout the Mediterranean where she and Sergio met on one such charter. Sergio and Melissa have worked together in Greece, Croatia and the Caribbean.

They are a terrific team delivering fun, adventurous and customer centric charters with an international flare ensuring their guests have a vacation of a lifetime.

NEW CHEF/FIRST MATE MAY 1ST, 2019

Elise’s Crew Profile

Elise has a genuine love for cooking along with a love of sailing. She worked for 10 years in the hospitality business as a hostess, server, bar tender and in public relations, related to event planning and conferences. She grew up in an Italian family where big family dinners were weekly events and began cooking with her grandmother from an early age. She later expanded her cooking skills by taking local culinary classes and hosting friends both allowing her to try new recipes and hone her skills. She has always loved being in the kitchen.

In 2018 she decided to change things up and apply her skills elsewhere, hence, taking up a position as chef and first mate in the sailing industry - an amazing change with no regrets.

She also enjoys swimming, water sports, hiking, skiing and horseback riding. Meeting new people and exploring new places has led her to traveled extensively - 35 countries and counting.

She has an easy-going people pleasing personality and will go out of her way to make sure others feel happy, comfortable and, of course, well fed.