William Kaye

Captain Will Kaye entered the industry from a slightly different route to most. “I was a dinghy sailor from a very young age - I did my sailing instructor’s course when I was 16 and then I studied engineering at university,” he says. It was during a summer engineering placement that Will decided to join his friends on a sailing holiday in Greece, and he fell in love with the country and its active outdoor lifestyle.

After Will graduated he fell in love again – this time with a girl, and the pair embarked on a sailing trip across the Atlantic.“Before I knew it I was chartering catamarans in the Caribbean, and then I moved onto motor yachts, running an 80 footer,” he adds. What followed was the job of chief officer on the build of the 50m expedition yacht where he became captain and stayed for ten years, before moving on to a spectrum of other superyachts. Captain Will joined Coral Ocean four years ago, and hasn’t looked back since.