James & Jennifer Hamilton.

Both apparently work for Google. James is a VP of something or other. What drew my attention to them is their employer, the circumstances of their employment, and their travels.

For the last 7 years at least, the pair has been cruising the world aboard their 52' Nordhavn motor yacht. These boats are basically floating mini-condos with 3000 mile plus range. Equipped to cross oceans, these boats are very rugged, stable and safe. All systems from propulsion to electrical generation, navigation, communications etc are redundant. This allows the owners of these boats to make ocean crossings most others of this size and type can't.

Nordhavn is sold by Pacific Asian Enterprises out of Dana Point, CA. They are built in Xiaming China. The hulls are laid up, the interiors are fabricated and the engines and systems are imported and installed according to owner specifications. The boats are then either shipped to North America aboard transport ships, or picked up by their owners at the yard who then cruise the Pacific on the way home.

The Hamilton's have been to some very interesting places, at some very interesting times. Their circumnavigation trip took them to Hawaii, Palmyra Atoll, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

What I find hard to believe is that Google allows a senior VP to telecommute from his yacht on the other side of the world. He does this through Satellite broad band systems that are prohibitively expensive on a boat twice the size of his. He brags about his bandwidth and the total automation of his systems.

Their latest cruise is of Europe. They have cruised Ireland, Scotland, Holland and are currently in Germany. They seem to show up in newsworthy places, and at newsworthy times.

I don't have LinkedIn and I can't find much on them due to James having the same name as a famous writer. Worth digging?

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Also prominently featured in Nordhavn, John Deere and KVI promotional videos.