About Me

SY Alegria, Port Fontvieille, Monaco · gb@gregberryman.com

Where It Started

I was born at Box Hill Hospital and grew up in Melbourne: Box Hill Primary, then Koonung Secondary College. I started a degree at Melbourne University and left before finishing it to go backpacking through Europe on ten dollars a day.

I spent almost two years moving around Europe, working wherever I could and spending as little as possible. At some point along the way I ended up on a kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, where I stayed for about six months. After that, I joined a camel trek down along the Red Sea and into the Sinai Desert, overnighting with Bedouin tribes along the way.

Work, and Getting Around

Back in Melbourne I worked in IT and computer consulting for a long time. It paid well and it travelled. Over the years I worked out of:

Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Bangkok
London
New York
Buenos Aires

Argentina is where I learned Spanish. It's come in useful more than I expected, particularly sailing through the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

Eventually I moved to Bali and went fully remote, based just outside Ubud. That was a good few years.

The Sailing Chapter

In 2013 I bought a Beneteau Oceanis 45, ordered from the factory in France and picked up in Antibes six months later. I named her Alegria, which is Spanish for joy and happiness. She's now based at Port Fontvieille in Monaco, which has become as close to a home port as I've got.

Sailing areas so far:

The full Mediterranean: Corsica, Sardinia, the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, the Balearics, the Greek Islands, Turkey, Malta, Croatia
The Eastern Caribbean, including the British Virgin Islands, after crossing the Atlantic solo in 2023, Monaco to BVI

Find Me

Greg Berryman
C/- SY Alegria, Port Fontvieille, Monaco
gb@gregberryman.com