Chief Engineer, Mark Scurrah (British, Age 43)
Mark was born in Bradford, England. He began his yachting career in February 1984 and spent two years “testing the waters” of a career path in yachting by taking on various engineering positions aboard megayachts. With travel being one of his great passions, Mark then took several years to explore various jobs around Europe, including a year handling maintenance in 153 villas on the island of Corfu, Greece.
By 1990, the sea had called him back. Mark accepted engineering positions doing yacht delivery and refit work—including a sailing yacht refit in Auckland, New Zealand— and spent two busy charter seasons in the Mediterranean before he decided to take an extended holiday to travel Australia by camper van 1n 1993. After this adventure, Mark pursued his Class IV marine engineering certificate in 1994 while he simultaneously took on various relief work engineering positions until his studies were complete.
With his Class IV certificate in hand, Mark stayed very busy holding an impressive list of engineering positions on motor and sailing megayachts all over the world —from Singapore and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean to the Med, and from Noraway to Dubai (Arab Emirates) . To say that StarFire’s Engineer is well-traveled is certainly an understatement!
In October 2000, Mark began his Y2 Chief Engineering ticket studies and over the next four years he completed this training while remaining steadily busy doing delivery and refit work in such places as Israel, the Adriatic Sea, and the U.S. Mark successfully completed his Y2 Engineering certificate in 2004 and came to take on Starfire’s state-of- the-art engines in summer 2005.
Mark’s talents don’t just stop at traveling and engineering though. M/Y Starfire’s Chief Engineer is also a musician and plays both the banjo and piano! During his adventurous traveling career, he has also managed to learn both French and Dutch. As a PADI Certified diver, Mark has also completed over 600 open water dives! Quite impressive!
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