Robby and Lorraine Coleman -- the Aloha Couple

Note - We are available to crew anywhere in the world!!

Click Caretaking link to left and "Contact Us" for references, to arrange crew positions, house/pet sitting, etc.

Veteran Pacific cruisers (we sailed out San Francisco’s Golden Gate on our first cruise in 1981,) and well-known sailing photographers and authors, we are also avid fishers and raced regularly in local fleets. We have thousands of blue water miles under our keels (didn't tie to a dock for 4 years) and were Commodores in the Seven Seas Cruising Association. For many years, boating was our life aboard our teak 1961 Hugh Angelman Sea Witch, (see Sea Witch link to left) Southern Cross.

As Realtors for many years, we acted as fiduciaries for countless home sellers and to the best of our knowledge, we were the only yacht/boat brokers in Hawaii who passed all licensing requirements to act as fiduciaries for yacht sellers in California as well. By keeping Aloha Yachts small, local and detail oriented, we provided unequaled personal professional service inclkuding "watching” boats for owners on the mainland and arranging cleaning, repairs, maintenance, etc.

Plus Lorraine and I minded many houses and condos, and watched people's pets in Hawaii. Click Caretaking link to left for a few examples.

We left Hawaii in June, 2007 to cruise again and spent 13 months at Fanning Island (click link to left) and then sailed through the Northern Cooks, Samoa, Northern Tonga and finally arrived in New Zealand December 1, 2008. Our Sea Witch served us extraordinarily well throughout the years but after nearly 2 decades of living aboard we, not without some regrets, put our venerable classic yacht up for sale. Ed and Stacy McDonald bought her in September 2009, so we are "between boats" at the moment.

We spent summer of 2009 and 2010 moving tons of stuff our our boat into a shipping conatiner and then campervanning around New Zealand and also rennovating our rentals in California and Washington State. As 2010 draws to a close, we are searching for a place to live, who knows where? In the meantime, we are available to professionally care for your home and/or animals anywhere in the world. Click Caretaking link to left and "Contact Us" for references, etc.

Robby and Lorraine Coleman