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About Us

My Captain is a full-service yacht management company that makes sure your yacht is safe, reliable, clean, and maintaned to the highest standard.  At My Captain we are experienced on yacht from 20 to 200 feet.  

Sean Oates

Captain, USCG Lisenced 500 ITC 



Growing up on the water from an early age, Sean has been around the world traveling on yachts logging over 25,000 sea miles.  Sean started as a deck hand, worked his way up to engineer, and shorly thereafter became Captain of a motor yacht in California. 

 

He knows what it takes to make your yachting experience memorable.

 

Hobbies: Sailing, Surfing, Diving, Hiking, Golfing, and Watersports.

 

 

Richard Oates

Captain, USCG Lisenced


Richard Oates was born in Australia, raised in England, and currently resides in Southern California. He has been sailing since six years of age in sabots and grew up yacht racing. Eventually, he represented England sailing an “International Moth” which he built.

 

He has over 30 years of private, charter, and project management experience on power and sail yachts up to 121 feet. At the beginning of his career, he ran a 42-foot charter yacht in the Caribbean and later ran a 94-foot Heesen charter yacht on the East Coast between Florida, the Bahamas, and New England for three years. He is skilled in all aspects of yacht maintenance including electrical, mechanical, and cosmetic. However customer-relations and satisfaction are his first priorities at all times.

 

Richard has over 50,000 miles of ocean under his keel in the waters of California, Australia, Caribbean, Florida, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, US West & East Coasts, British Columbia to Maine.​
 

 

Ben Turner

Captain MCA 3000 ITC

 

Ben grew up saling in the South East of England where his boating career began.  He shortly moved over to the East Coast where he began yachting.  He moved through the ranks and became Captain of megayachts all around the world.  He has over 10 Atlantic Crossings under his belt, and skippered yachts over 300 feet. 

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