Eric Wiberg

Eric Wiberg has lived in New England for thirty years. In 1983, he moved to Massachusetts from the Bahamas for boarding school, then to Newport, which was his home-port for fifteen years. He became a yacht captain (US Merchant Marine license, 1995), obtained a maritime law degree (2004), and a masters in marine affairs (2005), the same year he was admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The founder of Echo Yacht Delivery (1999), Wiberg has sailed over 125 vessels from Maine to...See more

Eric Wiberg has lived in New England for thirty years. In 1983, he moved to Massachusetts from the Bahamas for boarding school, then to Newport, which was his home-port for fifteen years. He became a yacht captain (US Merchant Marine license, 1995), obtained a maritime law degree (2004), and a masters in marine affairs (2005), the same year he was admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The founder of Echo Yacht Delivery (1999), Wiberg has sailed over 125 vessels from Maine to Long Island and globally in over 60 countries. A Boston College graduate, he has lived or worked in Camden, Norwalk, Westport, and Charlestown. He studied geography in Oxford, law in Lisbon, and film in New York. The author of over 20 books, his focus is on maritime casualties. Having commercially operated a tanker fleet from Singapore, he worked in maritime recruiting and media sales in Stamford, Connecticut, and the ship-docking industry in New York City, where he was born. In the spring of 2019 he moved to East Boston to be closer to son and co-author, Felix, assuming a full-time, year-round role on Boston Harbor in August. See less