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Captain Tommy • Adventures Underway

The captain.
The stories.
The water.

This should feel less like opening a résumé and more like stepping into a life underway, deliveries, passages, anchorages, memorable boats, and the kind of adventure that keeps going long after the next job begins.

Currently underway, collecting the next chapter
Read the log Meet Captain Tommy Recruiters, start here
What this is
More than a resume site A home for voyages, sea stories, boats, places, and the ongoing shape of life around the water.
Current chapter
Still very much underway Right now the route runs from West Palm Beach toward Northern New Jersey, with more stories about that trip still to come.
For work
The hiring path still exists The CV page, QR code, and recruiter-friendly materials stay easy to reach without taking over the homepage.
Photo-ready adventure homepage Drop in a great helm shot, delivery photo, or Bahamas image here and the whole thing starts to sing.
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20+
Years of life and work on the water
75–112 ft
Private motor yachts commanded
Bahamas
To Great Lakes, East Coast, and home waters
Stories
Worth telling, with more on the way
About Captain Tommy

Not just where I’ve worked. Who I am underway.

The licenses and the command history matter, but the front page should carry the feel of the life, not just the paperwork behind it.

A captain with a travel soul

Captain Tommy’s world is not one marina, one owner, or one chapter. It is a string of coastlines, crossings, weather calls, yard periods, sunrise departures, and anchorages that stay in your head long after you leave them behind.

This site should feel like stepping aboard. A little grit, a little elegance, and a lot of lived-in sea time. A place to show the boats, the destinations, the stories, and the adventure that keeps unfolding even when the next position changes.

That makes the homepage useful beyond any single job hunt. It becomes a real home port for Captain Tommy as a person and a brand, not just a container for employment details.

“The CV explains the qualifications. The site should explain the life.”
How this should work

The homepage builds vibe, curiosity, and trust. The CV page handles the recruiter path. One pulls people in. The other gives them the formal handoff when they need it.

Voyages & waters

The map behind the stories.

These are not bullet points on a CV. They are places with weather, memory, character, and miles attached to them.

Bahamas

Abacos & Exumas

Turquoise cuts, timing the bars, owner trips that become core memories, and all the details that make those islands feel earned instead of decorative.

U.S. East Coast

ICW to New York

South Florida up through the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, New York Harbor, and the rhythm of real seasonal movement along the coast.

South Florida

Fort Lauderdale home base

Local knowledge, trusted infrastructure, and the working home waters where so many programs begin, reset, and prepare for the next run.

Great Lakes

Lake Michigan & beyond

Fresh water, long miles, seasonal transitions, and a different kind of boating rhythm that still leaves its own strong imprint on the story.

Adventure structure

The kind of threads this site can keep collecting.

Deliveries

Short entries about passages, weather windows, route decisions, favorite stops, and the oddly satisfying details that make a good run feel clean.

Boat life

The less glamorous but very real texture of running vessels properly, yard periods, systems, prep, maintenance culture, and the art of keeping things right.

Places worth returning to

Anchorages, marinas, cuts, shore moments, and the destinations that deserve more than a tiny mention buried inside a job history.

Captain Tommy vibe
“I want this to feel less like a résumé and more like a life lived properly on the water.”

The point of the homepage is atmosphere as much as information, a sense of sea time, movement, personality, and adventure that can keep growing no matter what boat comes next.

Where this can go

What makes the site feel alive.

01

Stories over bullet points

The homepage pulls people into the journey first, then lets the formal credentials live one click away where they belong.

02

Photo-ready adventures

Once the real imagery arrives, this becomes part travel journal, part captain brand, and part visual proof that the life is real.

03

Still useful for hiring

The recruiter path stays intact through the CV page, QR code, and contact flow, but it no longer dominates the front door.

Boats & chapters

The vessels that shaped the story.

Every boat leaves its own mark. Different owners, different waters, different programs, same standard: keep her right and make the experience worth remembering.

Current/recent chapter

M/Y Lady Victory • 88' Rayburn

Restoring confidence in a vessel after deferred maintenance, then turning that back into a real seasonal program, is exactly the sort of chapter that says something about the captain behind it.

Bahamas chapter

M/Y Lady B • 85' Pacific Mariner

Owner trips through the Abacos and Exumas, plus the less glamorous work of refit coordination and systems attention that made those trips possible.

Great Lakes chapter

M/Y Well Played • 75' Hatteras M75

Long-range delivery energy, seasonal transitions, and the kind of miles that turn a vessel history into something more personal than a list.

Travel trail

Start the route-map framework now.

Once the photo library lands and EXIF location data survives, this section can evolve into a real visual trail of trips, deliveries, and favorite waters.

Florida
Abacos
New York
Great Lakes
EXIF-aware later When the images arrive, this can be upgraded from a visual mock route into a real geo-backed travel story.
Click a stop, open a memory Each stop can eventually lead to photos, a short log entry, a boat, a season, or a passage worth remembering.
Not cheesy, just alive The goal is chart-table energy and narrative motion, not a gimmicky map widget pasted onto a static site.
Photo-driven future

Once your real images arrive, this should stop feeling like a strong draft and start feeling like a genuine adventure brand.

Hero image slot A killer helm shot, delivery portrait, or underway image turns the homepage from polished into unmistakably yours.
Golden hour coast Perfect for East Coast runs, dockside atmosphere, and the quieter side of the story.
Bahamas or bluewater Clean water, open horizon, and the sort of image that instantly says this is not a generic captain site.
Captain’s Log

Stories from the water.

This is where the site starts to become a living thing, deliveries, seasons, crossings, memorable stops, and the moments that deserve more than a line on a resume.

April 2026 • West Palm Beach to Northern New Jersey

Running the coast right now.

There is something about a delivery that sharpens everything. The passage plan matters, the weather matters, the timing matters, and so does the calm steady rhythm of making good decisions one after another.

This leg up the coast is exactly the kind of story the homepage should hold, not just because it sounds good, but because it is the real texture of the life. The route, the pace, the changing conditions, and the sense that another chapter is already underway before the last one has fully settled.

Photo story stack

A more playful browsing layer.

This gives people something memorable to poke through, and it fits the travel-adventure vibe much better than a plain gallery grid.

Bahamas run Photo, place, boat, one sharp memory. Simple and sticky.
Underway on delivery A little caption and a little context go a long way when the imagery is good.
Dockside chapter Marina moments, yard periods, and the atmosphere around the trips, not just the destinations.
Log entry prompts

Easy prompts for rounding this out together.

When you are ready to flesh out stories, we do not need polished essays. A few good raw details from you will be enough to turn each trip into something worth reading.

  • Where were you going, and what made that run memorable?
  • What boat was it, and what was the feel of that chapter?
  • Was there a moment, anchorage, weather call, or stop that stuck with you?
  • What would a stranger find interesting or unexpectedly human about that trip?
Future journal lanes

Easy ways to keep this growing.

The right homepage structure should make it easy to add a little at a time instead of waiting for a total redesign every time life moves.

Captain's Notes

Short log entries

Quick updates from deliveries, route decisions, favorite stops, weather windows, or the moments that stick with you after a passage.

Boat Chapters

Featured vessel stories

A deeper page or occasional feature about a memorable boat, what made her special, and what that chapter was actually like.

Travel Energy

Places worth remembering

Not full-blown travel blogging, just enough location flavor and visual memory to make the site feel alive and worth revisiting.

Get in touch

Say hello, follow the voyage, or talk work.

The front page is the story side. If you are reaching out about an opportunity, the CV page is ready. If you just want to connect over boats, passages, or future adventures, that works too.

Send an email Open the CV page
QR code linking to Captain Tommy's CV
Recruiter or dockside handoff? Scan straight to the CV page.