Embark with Jean-Luc - Skipper Channel Islands

The skipper

Embark with Jean-Luc - Destination Brittany for a sailing cruise

Let go and enjoy the moment.

I have been sailing on all types of supports and on the 3 French basins since I was a child. I became an FFV sailing instructor at the age of 19, then headmaster at a sailing school. In parallel I raced on the great classics of habitable sailing by training crews including the Tour de France à La Voile, Cowes-Dinard, Fastnet, then many participations in regattas or raids in sports catamarans. Then I prepared and made a tour of the North Atlantic via Scandinavia with my wife and my eldest son then aged 2 years, from the Mediterranean we took the route of the first known scientific explorer Pythéas by going up along the west coasts of Europe to Scandinavia then those of the Vikings for the Atlantic crossing via Greenland and a descent of the east coasts of Canada and the USA, spent the winter in the Caribbean, and then a solo return transatlantic race followed. This varied experience has allowed me to be a complete sailor which I then validated by a British professional certificate, the YACHTMASTER Ocean issued by RYA/MCA. I have been sailing on all types of supports and on the 3 French basins since I was very young. I became an FFV sailing instructor at the age of 19, then headmaster at a sailing school. In parallel I raced on the great classics of habitable sailing by training crews including the Tour de France à La Voile, Cowes-Dinard, Fastnet, then many participations in regattas or raids in sports catamarans. Then I prepared and made a tour of the North Atlantic via Scandinavia with my wife and my eldest son then aged 2 years, from the Mediterranean we took the route of the first known scientific explorer Pythéas by going up along the west coasts of Europe to Scandinavia then those of the Vikings for the Atlantic crossing via Greenland and a descent of the east coasts of Canada and the USA, spent the winter in the Caribbean, and then a solo return transatlantic race followed. This varied experience allowed me to be a complete navigator which I then validated with a British professional certificate, the YACHTMASTER Ocean issued by RYA/MCA.

Inspires confidence, reassurance, and pedagogy.

Before becoming a professional skipper, I had a career as a sales engineer. I am a lover of the sea and beautiful boats, but also of what happens underwater as a diver (diving instructor E2 FFESSM). I like the mountains, and hiking and skiing.

Life on a journey

There are many of them: Every first time, the encounters, making crossings where only a handful of boats sail, long slides under spinnaker, crossing cetaceans, discovering wild anchorages followed by a dinner made thanks to the day's fishing. But if I have to remember one, it would probably be the crossing from Reykjavik to Greenland probably because all these ingredients were there: The boat was working well and the weather was magnificent and very pure. In the vicinity of Cape Farewell the wind dropped and the visibility was incredible as we saw the coast the day before we arrived 60 miles offshore, then it was the first icebergs, the fjords with glaciers that werefrom the steep summits of more than 2000m, throw into it the impression of being alone in the world, and suddenly an extraordinary welcome from the Danish members of the Prins Christian Sound base. The base is supplied twice a year and we just arrived at the summer refuelling when the ice melted: It was Christmas before the time.

Thanks at the end of the cruise.

I like to transmit my passions, cruises in safety but relaxed, heading for the islands by exploiting the boat's performance for the pleasure of navigation and comfort, and making discover stops off the beaten track.