Barely out of his teens, Manie was abandoned on the docks of the British Virgin Islands by a delivery skipper who cancelled his return ticket to South Africa and told him he should stay put in the BVI because it would be good for him. It must have been the right advice since, a decade on, Manie cruises the world's oceans aboard large sail and motor yachts as crew in the charter business. And no, it's nothing like your favorite TV show.