Mike O'Reilly is married to Christine Narroway MA, a music educator and we have two adult children, Patrick and Louise, who are creating their own professional futures with our parental support. One is in marketing & media and the other in music!

Mike is an experienced yacht racing skipper and crewman who sails with his son and other reliable crew aboard his Farr 740Sport (named - by someone else... Oh Really!)

He also crews on larger ocean racing yachts. He took up sailing on a Laser Dinghy as a "relaxing hobby" after he retired from competitive motorcycle racing at the age of 34. Within a year he was trying to go faster than other sailors... and a new competitive passion had surfaced. To gain offshore experience Mike crewed on yacht delivery trips from Brisbane to Sydney, Melbourne to Adelaide and Adelaide to Sydney. Sailing became an obsession that reached a pinnacle in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race in December 2008.

Mike respects the person who penned this magic statement: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"!