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Staff Profiles
Luke Stratton (Jet Ski & Boat course trainer) Qualifications: Restricted Coxswain, full time teacher and Boatsafe authorised training provider Maritime History: Luke is a teacher at Robina State High School on the Gold Coast. He is the co-coordinator of Marine Studies, where students study a range of subjects including boating, snorkelling, navigation, marine biology and oceanography. He has been providing Recreational Marine License Training for the past 7 years. Interested in all aspects of the marine environment, he also has recreational interests in boating, fishing, surfing and diving. As an member of the All Australian Boating team he is interested in teaching and helping people to learn how to safely operate jet ski's and power boats.
Russell Gilbert (Boat course trainer) Qualifications: Coxswain, Cert IV Workplace Trainer and Assessor & BoatSafe authorised training provider. Maritime History: Russell lived on the shores of Lake Illawarra (Wollongong) where he spent most of his recreational time involved with water sports & boats. When Russell was old enough, he obtained his boat licence and bought his first ski boat. Russell has been the proud owner of a number of boats since those days. Since moving to Queensland in 1993, Russell became the owner of a yacht and was given the opportunity to discover the wonderful playground of Moreton Bay. Over the last couple of years Russell has volunteered his services on the tall ship South Passage and with local Volunteer Marine Rescue. In 2006 he gained his restricted coxswain and became a qualified BoatSafe trainer & assessor. In addition to his maritime training courses, Russell has been working as a driver trainer for a number of years specialising in heavy vehicles. After 25 years of recreational boating, Russell is now able to help others to enjoy safe recreational boating.
Gerry Fitzgerald Offshore Maritime Training Centre Gerald "Gerry" Fitzgerald has a life long interest in sailing, commencing in off the beach catamarans in the 1960’s. He campaigned the Olympic class tornado catamaran in the1970’s for a decade, quite unsuccessfully, before moving into larger offshore mulithulls in the early 1980’s sailing and sponsoring well known trimarans such as "Assassin" (Syd Luxford) and "Yumi Maru" (Phil Smith) he then moved into offshore monohull racing, competing in his first Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in 1984 in "Overdraft" (Dayle Smith). Long distance sailing during the 1990’s included transpacific crossings, trans-Tasman as well as Pacific Rim races to Ambon, Indonesia, Noumea, New Caledonia, Ghizo in the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby in PNG, with a summer in the Mediterranean thrown in (1990). The decade finished with a round trip to Antarctica from Hobart, Tasmania as relief skipper on Don and Margie Mc Intyres’ expedition vessel "Spirit of Sydney"(1998). Square rigged ships held the romance of a bygone era and led to command of the brigantine STV "Windeward Bound" (2000) as well as first officer roles on "Svanen" and experience on "James Craig" and "Batavia" and the replica "Endeavour". A deep southern ocean crossing from Lakes Entrance, Victoria, to Ushuaia via Cape Horn as master on Roger Wallis "Spirit of Sydney" during the spring of 2002 rekindled his association with this grand expedition vessel, which continues to this day. Commercial sea time on cargo vessels in the South Pacific led to command of the Australian Federal Police vessel MV "Jackpot" and the military resupply vessel "Tina 1" during the regional assistance mission to the Solomon Islands 2003-4. Command of general cargo and trading vessels in the south west pacific added to his commercial trading experience Gerry spends about 130 days a year at sea in a variety of sail and power driven vessels, both commercial and recreational, and regularly competes in offshore yacht races. He is a life member of the Cairns Yacht Club. He has been a member of the Multihull Yacht Club of Queensland
since 1982. Jason Andrews Jason is a Maritime Safety Queensland BoatSafe Marine Training Provider. Jasons' speciality is PWC (jetski) and powerboat training.Jason is passionate about teaching and helping people to learn how to safely operate their Personal Watercraft and powerboats. He will supply everything you need to get up to gain confidence and competence to get your boat or PWC licence. Lloyd Jones
Lloyd is a member of the Marine Teachers Association of Queensland, having occupied the positions of President, Secretary and Regional Representative. Iloyd received awards from the Minister of Education for Excellence in Sport (1999 - won Australian Title for school Teams Racing/Sailing as coach/manager) and for Services to Education (2004 - part of the team that wrote the new Coast and Marine Education syllabus).
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