Sailing around the Atlantic as a Family... with a Twist!

Sailing around the Atlantic as a family with a twist: very limited sailing experience.

Join this member and a guest, free event on Saturday, May 11, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm in the Members Lounge for storytelling and snacks!

From Marion and Mathieu:

We are a Belgian family with 3 kids, born between 2009 and 2012.

In the autumn of 2017, after visiting a single boat, we bought this 42-feet, 25-years monohull. We sailed it around the Northern Atlantic in 2018-2019, and sold it 2 weeks after returning to Brussels. Prior to that, we had a cumulative total sailing experience of 9 weeks in 20 years between the two of us, exclusively as crew. In this presentation, we want to share with you the highs and lows of our trip, and the tons of experience we had to acquire along the way.

Marion is a business engineer with a career in project management and green economy in the public sector. Mathieu is a professor of applied
mathematics in the business school at UCLouvain. We are currently spending one year in Vancouver (Mathieu is on sabbatical at UBC).