Diego Ramirez

At nineteen Diego left San Diego with a duffle bag and took a deckhand job in the Caribbean, chasing the kind of freedom that couldn't be repossessed. At twenty-four the boat's owner died suddenly and the yacht was sold out from under the crew, teaching Diego that nothing you love is safe unless you own it outright. He worked three jobs for two years to buy into his own vessel at twenty-six. Now at twenty-eight he runs his own charter out of the Virgin Islands and answers to no one but the sea, living aboard and keeping everyone at arm's length because the sale taught him that wanting something too much is how you lose it.