Gap Year

Hey guys, welcome to our new boat, Gap Year! We are so excited to meet you guys and get on the water. Starting out with the skipper, Natalie Nat has been an avid sailor and marine enthusiast since her first sailing trip to the British Virgin Islands at age 3. Since then, the call of the ocean has been inescapable! This love for the sea has held firm despite spending most of her formative years sailing the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay and later the nonexistent seas of Park City, Utah. A healthy sense of wanderlust has led her to live in the Andalusia region of Spain, Namibia’s deserts, and Belize’s jungles, and then travel across the Atlantic on the Cape Town to Antigua Seamester voyage in 2023. Nat has her IYT Master of Yachts Limited Sail 200-ton Offshore license and PADI Divemaster certification. She attends college in Claremont, California. Any remaining spare time is spent shredding Utah and SoCal’s slopes, painting watercolors, and planning future adventures. Nat is excited to join the ActionQuest Team and share her passion for sailing and sense of humor with her students!

Next is Anthony (Tony)
Anthony started his journey with GXG as a student with ActionQuest, where he fell in love with the lifestyle and the people he was surrounded by. After a short 21 days, Anthony knew he wanted to continue sailing and scuba diving. While attending ActionQuest, he saw S/Y Argo on the horizon and was told about Seamester from his skipper, Jake. He went on to spend three of the best months of his life onboard S/Y Vela. The trip opened his eyes to a whole new way of living, and he knew he couldn’t stop there, so he went to Key Largo, FL, where he spent several weeks gaining knowledge and training to become a PADI Scuba Instructor. Anthony is super excited to pass on the knowledge and experiences he had to the students at AQ this summer.

And the mate, Skyler Skyler, grew up mainly in Vancouver, Canada, and also spent a few years in the Cayman Islands. Luckily, both are very close to the ocean, her happy place. While living in the Cayman Islands, she tried scuba diving and sailing for the first time. Eventually, she got scuba-certified in 2023 while aboard STV Vela sailing from Antigua to Fiji. Her time on Seamester was life-changing, and she can’t wait to give that experience to the students at ActionQuest. She has spent the last six months working on a boat in New Zealand but is very excited to return to cruising with the wind. She loves hiking, skiing, or finding the nearest cold lake to swim in when she’s not in or on the water.