Andy Diehm

New and Pre Owned Sales

Andy has been around boats all his life from his passion for waterskiing and barefooting as a younger bloke right through to skippering ocean going commercial cats in the Whitsundays and far north Queensland. The Clipper family know Andy well and he continues to grow our new owners and look after our existing Clipper family.

Andy lives in Brisbane with his wife Debbie and two labs and is now travelling to our new Coomera office on a daily basis. He is hoping the Brisbane Lions do a bit better next year.

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?Great Keppel Island Tourist Services - Coastal Islands and Great Barrier Reef - Roslyn Bay Boat Harbour, Central Queensland
April 1975 to November 1990:

• Deckhand
• Launch Master
• Principal in Charge
• Skipper/Engineer on vessels
  • 47 foot Hydrofoil ‘HFV Ermes’
  • 70 foot Hydrofoil ‘HFV Enterprise’
  • 100 foot Timber Monohull ‘MV Seafari’
  • 65 foot High Speed Monohull ‘MV Hydrafield’
  • 15m High Speed Monohull ‘MV Aquajet’
  • 20m High Speed Cat. ‘MV Keppel Cat 2’
  • 33m High Speed Cat. ‘MV Victory’ 
  • 35m High Speed Cat. ‘MV Reefseeker’

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Launch Master 1976
• Principal in Charge 1978  
• Marine Engine Driver Grade 2 1978
• Marine Engine Driver Grade 1 1980
• Queensland Master Grade 4 - Sth Brisbane TAFE 1981
• Queensland Master Grade 3 -  Unrestricted January 1988
• Master Class 4 - Unrestricted October 1998

Keppel Tourist Services
May 1993 to June 1994

Operations Manager

• Coordination of Island and Reef trips
• Coordination of maintenance schedules
• Liase with Department of Transport – Marine Division
• Skipper vessels when required

Keppel Tourist Services                           
December 1998 to December 2000

Master Class IV

• Skipper Passenger ferries
• Coordinate various daily activities for guests and crew
• Public relations
• Plan and coordinate vessel maintenance

In 1985 I delivered our new 33m Catamaran Passenger Ferry from Freemantle WA to Yeppoon Qld via the Great Australian Bight and in 1987 our 35m Cat from Freemantle WA to Yeppoon Qld via Darwin.

Other delivery voyages include Yeppoon to Hastings Vic. and return - 34ft Blackwatch game boat in 2003/2004.

Brisbane to Sydney and return - OA48 in 2006.