Andrew is a San Francisco native of Scandinavian descent. He began sailing his own boats on windy San Francisco Bay in 2000. During recent summers, Andrew has skippered Geja through 12,000 nautical miles of Mediterranean waters, including the coasts of Italy, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, and Greece. He has also sailed the waters of Mexico, Scandinavia, Caribbean, the U.S. East Coast, the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and French Polynesia. In late 2018 he finally crossed an ocean, crewing aboard an Amel 54 from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. He holds a United States Coast Guard Mariners License.