Handyman, Chef and roamer since forever!   I started my working career with my dad on the weekends when I would have only been 6 or 7, in hindsight I probably was not really much help but hey I was dedicated to try and carry long lengths of lumber. As time progressed I moved on from picking up pieces of waste lumber to using the tools, but back then in the 70’s it was all hand tools, cutting out notches with a hand saw and a chisel in freaking hard Aussie lumber, none of that nice soft fir type lumber!   Power tools came a bit later especially when we started more contract jobs.

Eventually I started an apprenticeship as a chef which took me into my future years of building and running restaurants.   I always liked to get back on the tools and house renos were always in the background going on one way or another!

Since 2003 I took a different path in the offshore world as a chef on a super yacht, yes those crazy big power yachts you see on James Bond movies while visiting Monaco.  It did not take long for the Captains to realize that cooking was not my only skill, so I found myself spending a lot of time in yard periods doing all the carpentry and fix it jobs around the boat, while my sous chef carried on cooking for the crew  This worked out great as it kept me busy and saved a lot of money for the yacht owners from exorbitant yacht contractor fees!

My yachting career has now come to an end and I have joined my long term partner Ainsley, a local Victoria gal here in Victoria on a full time basis  Ainsley moved back here from the yachting world 2 years ago and has now started her full time real estate career.