Captain Thomas S. Wissmann

& Chef Kaye Noble

Capt. Thomas has sailed the seven seas and most of the oceans of the world during his 20 years in the yachting industry. He started to skipper yacht deliveries at the age of 18 and, after a short stint in the merchant navy, became a sailing instructor working in the North and Baltic Sea. He worked with several German based charter companies and off shore sailing schools for many years and got to sail as far as Iceland, Norway, Trans Atlantics and race in the Caribbean, North Sea or Sardinia mainly on Swan yachts.

A few years on superyachts in the Mediterranean, which included the management of a traditional Italian yacht builder were followed by a 3 year circumnavigation which included more than a year of diving and sailing through 15 island chains in the South Pacific. After he had sailed more than 175,000 nm Thomas settled down in New Zealand to run a delivery and yacht management company. Here he met Kaye the Chef on board. He was there to witness all the America's Cup action as Captain of a spectator vessel as well.

After 4 years in New Zealand it was time to move on and the desire to the sea led him now together with his partner to run a charter yacht in the Caribbean and than to move on to his passion and to restore and skipper the 1917 schooner 'No4 of London' in Mediterranean waters (details: click here). Now Thomas has turned his interest towards this most interesting vessel to sail another circumnavigation. Due to his good engineering background Thomas also maintains the sometimes historic machinery.

He is a watersports enthusiast and fanatic diver. Another hobby of Thomas is the desire for good food. A lot of the recipes cooked on board are his creations and he will even after a hard dat at sea help the chef to create some special treats for everybody on board.

Thomas speaks fluent English, German and Italian.

Kaye, the better half on board, has been sailing with Thomas since his New Zealand days but enjoyed boating and the waters in New Zealand with her family long before that. She was the New Zealand swimming champion in 1983 and awarded a silver medal in life saving. She also was single scull rowing champion of New Zealand.

She has worked in most prestigeous hotels such as Lane Cove or Huka Lodge in Taupo and ran the famous guest house in Manapouri, Fjordland. She studied art history and anthropology and holds a MM degree.She spent several years as curator and ran Auckland's largest art gallery SOCA. She also was schooled in Thailand and learned Thai traditional cooking. She speaks fluent English, Thai, Spanish and Maori, the native New Zealand language.

Kaye loves watersports and travelling and is also a certified diver. Her excellent skills in hospitality will make you feel 'at home' on board and enjoy every minute of your precious holiday time.