Nikki Nicolet and Ben Raley come to Soterion after operating charter yachts in the contrasting environs of Alaska's Inside Passage! While they have sailed the waters for the British Virgin Islands in the past, gone are teh days of dipping their toes in the waters to test the temps - In the BVI it's always summer!

Nikki and Ben, both in their early 30s, are both US Coast Guard licensed captains. Ben studied climatology in school before gravitating to yachting, though he's also a registered Maine Guide and has cruised the waters of New England extensively. Nikki was a grade school teacher as well as a rock-climbing and mountaineering instructor