Our Crew

The benefits of a full-time crew without the expense: yacht management, delivery, and staffing.

Under the direction of United States Coast Guard Licensed Masters Elizabeth Shanahan and Eugenie Russell, our experienced team of marine professionals offer dedicated and personalized service, no matter the size or type of assignment. We have carefully and successfully captained sailing and motor yachts up and down the West Coast, including Mexico and Alaska.We also serve the East Coast, South America through the Caribbean, the Eastern Seaboard, through the Erie Canal, to the Great lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, the South Pacific, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Our captains are available from 100T to unlimited, sailing and motor yachts as well as power boats.

Our Crew

Elizabeth Shanahan

Captain, 1600 T USCG Master, SA

Captain Elizabeth Shanahan

Elizabeth is an expert captain, and yacht manager. She can deliver motor yachts and sailboats around the world. She is a fully licensed 1600 Ton Master with sail endorsements, an accredited marine surveyor and project manager.

Elizabeth has more than 30 years of experience in the open ocean. She started sailing in Newport Beach, CA when she was seven years old and progressed up to bigger boats from there. When Elizabeth was fifteen years old, she was hired as the deckhand/stew on a Grand Banks 48-foot luxury yacht, the Elbee II. Within a month, she was running the boat. This was the beginning of Elizabeth’s lifelong love for living and working on the water. While living at the Balboa Bay Club and working in Newport Beach CA for The Crow’s Nest Yacht Brokerage, she started her first yacht maintenance company, Elizabeth’s Yacht Service, doing routine maintenance on boats and also working for yacht owners.

Elizabeth has had a boat of her own since then, and has been actively delivering boats since then. She has done deliveries in excess of 3,000 miles over 50 days, and is insurable for deliveries during the hurricane/ cyclone season worldwide. She has extensive experience providing total yacht management, including crew, outfitting, maintenance, scheduling, and accounting. She speaks English, Spanish and Basic Italian.

Eugenie Russel

Captain, 100 T USCG Master, ASA Sailing Instructor

Captain Eugenie Russell

Eugenie is a fully licensed 100T captain, as well as an ASA and US Sailing coastal and offshore cruising instructor. A sailor, teacher and entrepreneur, she has been sailing for more than thirty years. Being pushed into breaking waves in an Optimist at the age of seven might seem like a rough introduction to sailing to some, but to Eugenie, it was the beginning of a long and exciting career on the water. Eugenie raced, crewed, delivered and moved yachts and sailboats throughout high school and college. The day she graduated from college, she embarked on her professional boating career, sailing and skippering an Oysters and a Nautor Swan 68 through locations around the world.

In San Francisco she focused both on running boats and teaching sailing skills. She has run four sailing schools—the Spinnaker Sailing school in San Francisco, the City of Oakland’s youth sailing program, the J World Sailing School program in Puerto Vallarta, and currently the Vallarta Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program. Eugenie operated private charters, provided sailing instruction, did deliveries, and captained boats while she ran the programs above. She co founded the company J Concierge, a support team for J/Boat owners. Today, in addition to delivering boats worldwide, Eugenie teaches sailing and yachting to anyone who has the desire to let the dock lines go. Coach for the Vallarta Yacht Club’s Junior Sailing Program, she is trains youth to compete in Olympic-level competitions. She speaks French, Spanish and English, and is dedicated to making students understand and love sailing.

Eugenie was recognized for her heroic efforts in safely rescuing her guests and students after the J120 she was skippering collided with a whale in 2009. Annually at the Vallarta Yacht club and several other locations her host a “Safety at Sea” seminar.

Eugenie continues to teach on a J105, a Catalina 38, a Jenneau 40 and also on your own vessel and averages 4-6 ‘ Baja bash per year

The Vallarta Yacht lcub was lucky to have Eugenie Russell on board as the Coach for the VYC Jr. Sailing Program, and we’re not the only ones that are impressed with her talent. In October, “Eugie” was chosen by the Mexican Sailing Federation (FMV) and the Mexican Optimist Association (AMVCO) to be 1 of 4 coaches for the 33 kids of Team Mexico in Optinam 2012. The International Optimist Dinghy Association North American Championships, known as Optinam, is an international event in which 18 countries and 146 sailors participated. This incredible honor is a testimony to her coaching skills and expertise.

José Alejandro Cano

On the dock

Odi Gutierrez

Office Manager

Miguel Sánchez Rodríguez

On the dock

Miguel Sánchez Rodríguez

Miguel joined E2 yacht services in 2019, after having worked with several other service providers in Paradise Village Marina. He has been a asset to the team, his dedication to detail is superior and his knowledge is extensive, from basic “proper” boat washing and waxing, to bottom cleaning , paint and varnish, and basic mechanical skills,

José Luis Remegio

In the shop - General maintenance

Sergio Delgado

Yacht Captain

Captain Sergio Delgado

Sergio came to Vallarta 20 years ago in pursuit of his desire to be in the maritime industry.

Sergio handles most maintenance work and is also Captain or mate/engineer on delivery trips and as captain on Yachts from 32’ to 65’ including a 32’ Sea Ray, 44’ Carver, 44’ Hunter Sailboat, 44’ Island Packet Catamaran and of course our S2 26’ training vessel and Kelly Peterson 44’.

He started as a deck hand on a sailing catamaran doing day charters, taking care of guests and general boat work. Moving up from there to a private sport fisher as the mate and engineer and participated in numerous fishing tournaments including the Bisbee and the Black and Blue in Cabo San Lucas. Progressively moving up the ladder in credentialing here in Mexico, after having children he came to work on land but stayed in the marine business working at the local shipyard, doing maintenance, system upgrades, painting and increasing his knowledge and skills. After working at the shipyard he spent the next 4 years as the assistant to local marine diesel mechanic, doing all types of mechanical work from oil changes to complete engine rebuilds.

Currently he is full time captain on a 44’ catamaran and continues to do deliveries worldwide.

Capt Salvador Sanchez

USCG 500T Captain and professional sailor

Captain Salvador “ Chewy” Sanchez

Salvador is a professional Yacht Captain with over 15 years of international experience commanding sailing yachts, catamarans, and motor yachts across offshore passages, yacht deliveries, private yacht management, charter operations, and high-performance racing campaigns. Widely respected for seamanship, leadership, adaptability, and technical capability — combining elite-level competitive sailing with hands-on expertise in yacht systems, offshore navigation, guest service, and vessel operations. Proven offshore capability through multiple Pacific deliveries and an Atlantic crossing from Barcelona to St. Martin aboard a Sunreef 80. Technical experience alongside B17 Sailmakers and Seatek Rigging in sailmaking, rigging systems, diesel mechanics, and systems optimisation. Fit, healthy, non-smoker, non-drinker, multilingual — immediately available worldwide.

Salvador is also available for Rig inspections and training as a yacht surveyor. His experience wide and varied focuse mainly of sailboats from Nautor Swan 58, 30m Performance Sailing Yacht, Sunreef 80 Catamaran and many more.

Salvador can be reached through our office or direct at +52 1 55 7058 7646

Jason Foster, “Argus Marine”

Rigger, Rig Surveyor, Project manager

Jason Foster

“We at E2 Yachts Services are happy to announce a new partnership with Jason Foster Barnes of Argus Marine and we can extend our complete services including project management, rigging surveys and services. Jason is also an apprentice marine surveyor, and has numerous deliveries over the las 15 years on his resume,

Jason is very well known in the Banderas Bay area, he also started the “La Cruz “ artisan market.

Our Crew

The benefits of a full-time crew without the expense: yacht management, delivery, and staffing.

Our Crew

Elizabeth Shanahan

Eugenie Russel

José Alejandro Cano

Odi Gutierrez

Miguel Sánchez Rodríguez

José Luis Remegio

Sergio Delgado

Capt Salvador Sanchez

Jason Foster, “Argus Marine”

The benefits of a full time crew without the expense yacht management, delivery and staffing.

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