ABOUT

Captains Mike and Verena are both Merchant Mariners and have held 100-ton United States Coast Guard Near-Coastal Masters licenses with sailing and towing endorsements since 2008.

Operating commercial vessels since 1999, Captain Mike brings an elite level of maritime expertise to every vessel relocation. Since 2004, he has also served as a NOAA hydrographer, mapping the seafloor to update official US nautical charts in waters spanning from the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Mexico. Under his own command, he consistently logs over 5,000 nautical miles per year in safe ocean passage making.Based in Anacortes, Washington, the San Juan Islands and Pacific Northwest are his home waters, where he has cruised for over 20 years. As an experienced offshore yacht delivery captain and boat transport specialist, his extensive blue water passage history includes long-range transits from Los Angeles to Hilo, George Town to Fort Lauderdale, San Diego to Puerto Vallarta, and Spain to Turkey via the Mediterranean Sea.As a dedicated boat owner himself, Captain Mike provides meticulous voyage planning, weather routing, and yacht husbandry, treating every client’s motor yacht or sailing vessel with the ultimate care. Contact Captain Mike Castle today for a professional yacht delivery quote.

Verena immigrated to the United States from Germany as a teenager along with her parents. To get to the US, they sailed their 38-foot sailboat from Germany to San Diego. Verena went to college in Northern California, where she received a degree in geography and cartography. Her passion for the ocean and affinity towards technology led her to the NOAA research ship Fairweather, where she began her career as a hydrographer in 2004.

In 2011, Mike and Verena quit their corporate jobs in hydrography and went cruising in Mexico aboard their sailboat Camille. After two years, they returned to San Diego, sold Camille, and started working as hydrographic contractors. In the winter of 2015, they purchased a 40-foot trawler to cruise the waters of the Pacific Northwest.

For more about us, please visit our personal website at PacificSailors.com