Grant was born in South Africa and grew up in Botswana, before moving back to Cape Town. He has been sailing the unpredictable African wild coast from a young age with his family. Shortly after finishing high school he moved to the United Kingdom to study Software Engineering. Grant decided that a 9 to 5 job wasn’t for him and so pursued a career in the yachting industry. He holds a Sailing Yacht Master Certification. He has sailed the coasts of South Africa, the U.K., the Caribbean island chain and the USVIs and BVIs.  Grant’s open water diving qualification helps Tara’s diving stewardship as a Master Diver and Scuba Dive Instructor.

Tara was born in Australia in the outback countryside. From a young age she loved the water and working with animals.  The love of swimming brought her to the ocean to discover more about marine life and so became a scuba diving instructor, working the islands of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.  She became a crewmember on Super Yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, working her way up to assistant chef on a 41 Meter mega yacht. Finally she earned her Yacht Master license. In addition to working on yachts in the Mediterranean, the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands, Tara was also part of two Atlantic crossings.   She is happy to be back in the BVIs and  looks forward to putting her culinary skills to work for guests aboard Swish.