[3] Between 1995 and 1998 Whiting was part of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron youth training scheme.
[9][10] In 2009 he took up cycling and entered a team into the Tour of Southland while also working with Artemis Racing in the TP52 class.
[11] Whiting launched and managed Pure Black Racing, New Zealand's first international professional road cycling team, from 2010 to 2013.
The team raced in USA, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia in 2011 and '12, including competing in the 2012 UCI Asia Tour.
[14] In 2020, Whiting and his wife Jasmine purchased the 55 ft yacht Emotional Rescue, which was the first monohull boat to win the PIC Coastal Classic in 1989.