Nanaimo Yacht Charter - About Us

Ian MacPherson began sailing at a young age before becoming a worldwide yacht delivery skipper. Just prior to Ian’s 30th Birthday, he launched his 40′ long-distance cruising sailboat, an Endurance Ketch, named ‘Baraka’ that he had spent five years building in Durban. Ian then spent the following ten years cruising the world with Shari and 2 young daughters.

Ian went on to manage the Caribbean, Greek and Eastern Mediterranean charter operations of one of the largest charter companies in the world. However, of all the places that Ian has sailed internationally, Beautiful British Columbia’s cruising ground he still rates as one of the finest in the world. Ian first began the annual Fall circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in 2002 and still teaches the Yachtmaster Offshore with Celestial Navigation aboard a flotilla of advanced level sailors at the CRYA and IYT standards.

Andy Den Otter is available as a monohull or catamaran sailing skipper and instructor, to teach from introductory to YachtMaster.

Andy has been sailing everything from windsurfers up to 55 ft ocean cruisers on the Caribbean, Pacific, Mediterranean, and Atlantic for the last 30+ years.

He has a real passion for teaching and loves teaching and sailing Canada’s West Coast. Andy is often chartering with his own friends and families as well as introducing new families couples and groups to BC’s Coastline!

Jack is an avid racer and has taken part in many Swiftsure Races, the Van Isle 360 and racing on Galveston Bay.  He is a qualified to teach up to the Yachtmaster Ocean Instructional Evaluator level.

These passionate instructional skippers contribute to empower safe boaters to make sailing and navigating this Coastline accessible to everyone!