MARBELLA II Private Yacht

Nicholas, aged 25 grew up along the east coast of South Africa. He fell in love with the warm Indian Ocean and everything it had to offer at a very young age. Swimming, snorkeling, fishing, boating and diving.

A Mechatronical Engineer by trade, he worked on mines in and around South Africa but Nicholas’s heart was lost at sea. After he qualified as an engineer he did his yachting courses and set sail to pursue his dream of becoming a maritime engineer. He has been sailing American and Bahamas waters ever since.

Born in Germany raised in the south of France, I grew up in a 600yr old farmhouse with livestock and a farm to table approach to the culinary arts. After college at age 18, I studied Hotel Management in Montreux Switzerland with a focus on Food & Beverage as well as the culinary arts. After graduating, I spent the next 8 yrs. apprenticing and interning in some of Switzerland’s finest, 1 to 3 Star Michelin restaurants. My training had a strong emphasis on preparing traditional European cuisine.

After my European studies I spent 3 ½yrs. in Australia as the Executive Chef in a French restaurant called Le Classic and subsequently as Executive Chef of a Belgian Beer café in Brisbane. After coming to the US, I took an Executive Chef position in south beach Miami at a restaurant called Baoly specializing in Mediterranean cuisine. After my time in Miami, I opened my own restaurant in Hollywood Fl, called Sage specializing in French cuisine.
After a long 20yr career in the restaurant business the opportunity arose to become a private chef, catering to private parties, yachts and vacation rentals in and around south Florida and the Caribbean.