Sailing Resumé

What I do and have done:

Skipper, deliveries and private instructor:

• sailing yachts, multihulls and traditional barges

• from 20 to 70 ft

Instructor Offshore Sailing (CWO* and RYA)

Instructor keelboat (CWO*)

Mate 3-mast bark "Alexander von Humboldt II"

Mate Schooner lugger "De Gallant"

Mate Schooner lugger "Marie Galante"

Mate 15 m ketch "Mae West"

Crew 21 m ketch "Anne Margaretha"

Mate on 35 m traditional barge "Helena"

Skipper watertaxi Amsterdam

Skipper canal cruises around Gouda

Volunteer "Sailability"

Harbourmaster "De Potten", Sneek

Instructor Shorebased Courses Navigation and ICC

What I 've learned about yachting:

• RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Instructor CE

• CWO* Instructor keelboat and offshoresailing

• ICC

What I 've learned about traditional commercial sailing vessels:

• Master Coastal Commercial Sailing Vessels (500 gt)

• Basic Safety STCW

  • First Aid

  • Fire fighting

  • Survival at sea

• GOC

* CWO is the Dutch equivalent of the RYA scheme

Where I sailed:

I 've sailed the North Atlantic, the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Caribbean, the Biscay, the Baltic and the Med, but most of all I sailed around the North Sea and the British Channel.

If you can sail there, you can sail anywhere, they say ....