AMBASSADORS
Watersports: Sailing, Stand Up Paddleboarding
"My goal every day is not to return to my room until I need to shower the salt and sunscreen off before dinner. Best to start the day by grabbing an SUP board before breakfast (pre-arranged with Jerome) to jump start the day. Then non-stop sailing & snorkeling after breakfast, "interrupted" only by lunch. After that, more sailing, snorkeling, and swimming..."
Watersports: Sailing, Surfing, Wakeboarding
“Catch a wave” would have to be Adey’s life-slogan. Surfing was Adey’s first love, and first water sport. “Standing on the edge of a six foot wave, looking down into the belly is pretty awesome. My spiritual love of water started at this time, feeling the power of the ocean and trying to be at one with it is amazingly meditative.”
Watersports: Sailing, Fishing
Brent & Esther Hollink met at Bitter End Yacht Club when he was working at the Quarterdeck Marina, and she was working at Watersports. He a fisherman from the frosty white north of Canada, she a dinghy racing sailor from the Netherlands.
Watersports: Sailing
Pam Wall, circumnavigator and offshore voyager champions women sailors across the globe and has fun doing it.
Watersports: Sailing, Windsurfing
How many people can say they’ve circumnavigated the globe, solo, non-stop, on a sub-32-foot sailboat? Jerome (a Midwest/Michigan transplant) is one of less than 10, an elite club.
Watersports: Sailing
Dawn is one of the most recognizable and respected athletes in the sport of sailing.
Watersports: Professional Sailor
America’s Cup Winner and Sailing Hall of Famer Ed Baird is no stranger to BEYC.
Watersports: SUP, SUP Yoga
Danielle Brown is the zen master of our Bitter End community. In addition to running SUP retreats and day programs in her home state of Connecticut, she would also return three times a year to Bitter End to host our signature SUP Weeks.
Watersports: Sailing, Surfing
Sam Tobio is a collegiate varsity sailor at the College of Charleston, but we like to think he found his sea legs on family trips to Bitter End.
Alyssa left her mark on BEYC watersports as the charismatic first mate and then captain on Ponce de Leon, our snorkel boat.
Watersports: Sailing, snorkeling, diving
A tale of two sailors--she was a cruiser, he was a racer. Yet they found common ground in their love for the water, and Pito and Melissa have instilled that same tie to the sea in their two young children.
Watersports: Sailing, free-diving
To many, Virgin Gorda’s own Lenford Pope is the most impressive young sailor the BVI has ever produced.
Watersports: Scubadiving, snorkeling, boating
Ben and Kay are the solar-powered engine of Sunchaser Scuba, the BEYC-based dive team. As the current owners of the shop, they are the standard bearers of the Caribbean’s most legendary dive operation.
Watersports: Scubadiving, snorkeling, boating
Ben and Kay are the solar-powered engine of Sunchaser Scuba, the BEYC-based dive team. As the current owners of the shop, they are the standard bearers of the Caribbean’s most legendary dive operation.
Watersports: Sailing, Windsurfing, Paddleboarding, Paddleboard Yoga, Kayaking, Scuba Diving, Fly Fishing and Snorkeling
The heart of Watersports and Jerome’s right-hand man (the two of them made up the “Michigan Mafia” duo), the man known to all simply as “Dobbs” left a lasting impression on everybody, thanks to his thoughtful and cheerful attitude.