Qualifications and Experience
Captain Dave Mathews
- Yachtmaster Offshore 200 ton, RYA/MCA
- Canadian Master, commercial passenger-carrying
- Graduate Coastal & Celestial Navigation, George Brown College
- Graduate University of Manitoba
- Advanced 1st Aid and CPR
- USCG Unlimited tonnage radar
- Ham Radio operator VE3TAO
Delivery stories
Repositioned Jeanneau 452 from Tortola, British Virgin Islands via the string of islands and thru Bahamas to West Palm Beach, Florida.


Moved 40 ft. fast power catamaran from Charleston, South Carolina to New Hampshire.
Crew (right) Doug, Andy and Capt. Dave


64 ft. gaff schooner catamaran, Nigel Irens design.
Supervised final construction, departed builder's yard in Key West, thru the Bahamas to Turks & Caicos Islands with owners on board.
Then 3 month teaching contract with owners re sailing and operating on charter.


32 ft. power catamaran "Mollie Anne" located in Beaufort, N.C.
Cap't Dave, mate Andy and owner Trevor brought it up to Whitby, Ontario.


47 ft. Hurricane 1400 Rescue Craft, from Burlington, Ontario.
The new owner had purchased it surplus from the Canadian government.
Delivered it to a ship in Newport, R.I. to be loaded and taken to the U.K.


49 ft. Beneteau “Peacekeeper ll” offshore from Cape Cod to Miami Beach.
The owner is 2nd from right.


37 ft. Moorings power catamaran, Ft. Lauderdale, past the bridges in Nassau and south through the islands to the Moorings charter base in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.


38 ft. Island Packet, Kittery, Maine to New Bern, N.C.
Crew Doug, Andy and Dave pose in Norfolk.


50 foot custom trimaran "Savanna" from yard in Ft. Pierce, Florida where an extensive re-fit had been completed. Route was through all of the Bahamas to the Turks & Caicos Islands where she will be an addition to the fleet of multihulls for taking out charter groups from the local hotels.




52 ft. charter cat "Arielle", for Sail Provo, Turks & Caicos to Ft. Pierce.
Participated in re-fit, putting in new engines.
Sailed her back to base in Turks & Caicos.
The big tuna supplied sushi, a lot of it.


For several seasons skippered passenger tender Algonquin Queen ll, moving people between mainland and Queen City Yacht Club on Toronto Islands.


42 ft. Beneteau, Port Credit, Ontario to Freeport/Lucaya, Bahamas, where 1st mate Barbara tends the lines at destination.


43 ft. catamaran dive boat, “Caicos Cat,” Martinique to Turks & Caicos Islands. Mate Justin prepares a special platter.


44 ft. Antares sailing cat. Andy, Dave, Barbara and the owner departed North Carolina eastward to near Bermuda, then south to St. Barths in the French West Indies.


56 ft. trimaran Tao, on many voyages. Dave built this vessel, a 10 year backyard project.
The crew pose in Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas

