CAPTAIN JAN CLUISTRA  
(see contact details on the top right hand corner of this BlogSpot)
  

Available all year round for deliveries and personalized sail training on your own vessel.


CERTIFICATES:

QUALIFICATIONS:
* SAS (SA Sailing Govt. Ticket) Yacht Master Ocean
* SAS Off-shore Instructor/Examiner
* 100 Tonne SAS Motor Vessel Captain
* PADI Dive master
* Ham License Operator
* First Aid and fire fighting

POSITIONS HELD:
* World sailing council member (ISAF) for 4 years
* Commodore False Bay Yacht Club, Simon's Town, SA
* Executive member of The SA Sailing Federation
* Honouree life membership for services to sailing, False Bay Yacht Club, SA
* National SAS chairman of safety at sea for 4 years
* Board Member of Simon's Town Marina Company, SA for 4 years
* Chairman of the development committee that built 220 marina’s at the False Bay Yacht Club, SA
* Regional chairman and council member of The Cruising Association of SA
CHARACTER:
Having served on the executive of the sailing federation as well as ISAF, I have dealt with members as a Club Commodore and served on the board of the marina company. I have developed good communication skills as well as the ability to work with all levels of people. I was well liked and successful in getting the job done on time.
PROFILE:
The boats I have worked with range from 38ft to 65ft, mono and multi-hulls (catamarans mainly), sail and power, therefore having captained both power as well as sailing vessels I have developed good all-round sailing experience. As a boat owner I also know and respect the value of the vessels that I work on. We are also well known and fully trusted with all the brand new boats from the factories and the "Moorings" group. John K and myself have a reputation for delivering boats in 100% condition, to anywhere in the world.

LOGBOOK:
2014:
*Nov/Dec - bringing a brand new Outremer 45 catamaran from the factory in La Motte, France to St Martin, Caribbean with the owner.
* Sept/Oct - taking a brand new Leopard 5800 catamaran from off the ship in Tortola, BVI to the Annapolis boat show.
* Sept. - Leopard 4600 cat, Grenada Moorings base to St Maarten.
Aug - sailing my own cat down in Grenada and Trinidad.
* July - Personalized sail training with an owner of a new Leopard 4600 cat in Miami. 
* End March/End April - Leopard 4600, Tortola, BVI to Nice, France, via Azores.
* Feb. - Collecting new Leopard Catamarans off the ship from Cape Town in Tortola, BVI with our team of skippers, then personally taking a brand new Leopard 4400 to the Miami Boat Show.
* Jan. - Miami boat show - demo sailing various Leopard catamarans to prospective clients.
2013:
* Dec '13 - Jan '14:  Moving  all the Leopard catamarans off the ship in Miami which came from  SA - personally taking them all up river to get their masts and rigging put on, etc. then moving them back down to the Miami Boat Show.
2013:
* Sept - Nov -  Collecting the Moorings brand new Leopard catamarans off the ship in BVI from SA, then sailing them to the Annapolis boat show with our team of skippers
* Begin. May - The Moorings 39ft power catamaran  - Florida USA to Tortola BVI.
* Mid March/April - sailing my own catamaran "Nauti Cat" from Grenada to BVI's and back down the island chain, WI's.
* Jan/Feb - Leopard 4800 catamaran - Miami boat show to Tortola, BVI
2012/2013:
* December - End January 2013 - Tui Marine, Owners Leopard 5800 catamaran CT, SA - Miami, USA for the boat show.
*August-end October - Tui Marine i.e. The Moorings/Sunsail - Delivery of the first Leopard 58ft catamaran CT,SA - Annapolis USA boat show then after the show, delivering  it onto Miami for more client demo's.
* March-May: The Moorings, personally delivered 2 Leopard catamarans, one, Miami to St Marten and one, St Marten to Annapolis.  The balance of the other 3 boats Miami to Tortola/St Marten and the other 4 boats, Tortola and St. Marten to Annapolis were delivered by our team of skippers.

* Jan-Feb: The Moorings, Sunsail -delivery of brand new show boats (catamarans and mono-hulls) from the Miami Boat Show to various bases around the Caribbean with business partner and skippers.

 2011 :
* October-December 2011 - Tui Marine i.e. The Moorings, Sunsail -30 odd "brand new" The Moorings and Sunsail catamarans and mono-hulls from the Annapolis boat show in USA, where we help to demo them to prospective clients and sailing magazines and then co-ordinating and also personally delivering the boats along with the rest of our team of skippers, 1st mates and crew to their respective bases throughout the Caribbean.

* Sept/Oct: "Coronoto" Private Leopard 4600 Catamaran - The Moorings Grenada to Just Catamarans, Miami, Florida.

* Tui Marine, The Moorings - New 50ft show boat to and from the Miami Boat Show

* "Nauti Cat" (our own catamaran) cruising the Caribbean from Grenada, Trinidad, Tobago then up and all around Tobago Keys, etc.

Oct 2010/March 2011:

* October-December 2010 - January - March 2011 - Tui Marine, The Moorings and Sunsail boats - delivering 30 odd "brand new" The Moorings and Sunsail boats (mono-hulls) from the factory drop off point in South Carolina, USA to the various bases in the Caribbean and also one through the Panama Canal up to Lower California/Mexico, La Paz with our full team of skippers, first mates and crew.

* "Nauti Cat"  (our own catamaran) - Cape Town to Grenada WI's via Brazil and Suriname

* "Banderal" brand new Admiral 40ft catamaran  - Cape Town to Sicily with the owner and crew via St Helena, Ascention Island, Spain.

2009
* "Semper Fi" brand new Leopard 4600 catamaran with owners - Mykonos, CT, SA - Trinidad with the owners and crew.

* Tui Marine - "New" Sunsail 384 Leopard catamaran - CT, SA to Miami

* For the rest of the year I have been overseeing the completion of my own Admiral 38 catamaran, "Nauti Cat" by Admiral Yachts, Cape Town, South Africa.

2008

* Tui Marine/Moorings New 3700  Leopard Power Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA for one of the Tui Directors.

* "Hula Girl" New Admiral 40ft Sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA

* "Vision" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Salvador with the owner.

* "Zeepaard" own 45ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Luderitz, Namibia.

2007

* Tui Marine/Moorings New 4700 Power Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to La Paz, Mexico 9500nm via Panama Canal.

* Tui Marine/Moorings "Nautic Blue" New Leopard 4700 Power Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Bahamas

* "Liliana" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami boat show with the owners.

2006

* "Banana Split" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA with the owners.

* "Highland Odyssey" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Caribbean with the owners.

* "Flamingo" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA with the owners.

* "Gobnait" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA with the owners.

2005

* Tui Marine/Moorings New 4700 sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to British Virgin Islands (BVI)

* Tui Marine/Moorings New 4700 sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to BVI

* "Tee Time" New Admiral 38ft Sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Trinidad with the owners.

2004

* "Zeepaard 2" 45ft Sailing Catamaran Rio Race, Cape Town, SA to Salvador, Brazil, Rio then back to Cape Town, SA.

* "Di Di Mau" New Admiral 38ft sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA to Miami, USA with owners.

2002/3

* "Green-on-Blue" New 42ft Atlantic sailing Catamaran, Cape Town, SA - Caribbean -Pacific-Australia with the owner.

2000

* Sheraton Cape to Rio race on "Zeepaard 2", personal 45ft catamaran with SA navy team.

* Day chartering for a 1 year period on my personal 45ft Bruce Roberts and then 45ft Woods catamaran.

* 1988/2000: 1st Mate Atlantic Crossing to Salvador, deliveries around South African coast, plus sailing of own vessel "Zeepaard 1"  Bruce Roberts 45 mono around the South African coast.

Most of the catamaran deliveries entailed taking delivery of the new boat, setting it up for the owner, then helping them to get used to the boat and taking them across the Atlantic, SA to USA, hence "The Trans-Atlantic" experience for our clients .......

REFERENCES:
Please page down to see references from our clients plus I can provide contact numbers for Tui Marine (Moorings & Sunsail).