Jeff St Pierre, male, 52
Ref 38808
| Nationality: | United States |
| Currently based in: | Flower Mound, United States |
| Looking for: | Worldwide opportunities |
| Experience: | 1000 ocean miles / 5000 coastal miles |
| Everyone asks why a boat. The answer is simple. Why not. You only live once and to many of us have a dream and think it can wait until we retire. The reality is that in most cases that dream will never be realized or when it can be turned into a reality, our health or age presents limitations to living the dream fully. Our journey started while we were visiting the Azores in 2017. Meeting people who just crossed the Atlantic in their tiny boats with no money and huge smiles on their face enlightened us with the sense that we wanted to invest into a piece of that lifestyle. Mind you a small piece and not an ocean crossing piece nor a big boat piece. We have been very blessed with a great family and business that afford us a lifestyle beyond anything we could have dreamed growing up. But as many know success comes with sacrifice. Mine was in putting the business first and family and my health second. It was a long over due medical physical that made me aware of my mortality and spawned the life change you see today. The stress, hours and constant high speed was killing me and it needed to change. Sitting at the house, yes with a cigar of course...Dr. says you don’t smoke cigars, you only taste them and didn’t tell me to stop...we were discussing the future and what next. It lead to the conversation about “how much is enough” and after years of saving, being frugal and living below our means we had achieved the most of what we had hoped for our future. The conversation turned from someday to what about now. We had already made the decision to get a play boat for weekend and holiday fun which we would keep in Fort Lauderdale or Houston area. The end of the conversation was us choosing to find a longer term live aboard sailing catamaran. Hence the 2019 Leopard 58 we live on today. Longer story about how we landed on that yacht but that can be for a beer discussion later. So here we are with a great boat, a dream and the means to make it happen. Now to unwind our land lives. The business was hard. We put a year plus into building a stronger leadership team and focusing on what we wanted the business to be over the next 10 years. We put key people into challenging rolls and asked them to perform beyond what they thought they could do. The results was a business ran by a strong team with a clear focus on the future. My role changed from day to day management to strategic planning and paving the way for our mutual goals in a means to take over the world. This transition allowed me to work remotely with monthly trips back to Texas with daily updates and weekly stand ups while I put together the future roadmap for the business. Following the plan for the business, comes the crap we accumulated over 22 years of marriage and 17 years of kids. Estate sale...sold everything...and I mean everything. I was fun. Everything we own, fits on the boat. No ties, no bills, no worries. Just a boat and a growing business. The dream fulfilled. Kids started online school for the 2018/2019 school year with great success and on March 2019 we moved aboard. So here we go. This Facebook page is to share our journey, tell our story and hopefully have a way to look back on our adventure years from now and recall how much we grew doing this as a family. Enjoy. Jeff St. Pierre and the Crew of S.Y. Malooca | |
| Smoking: | smoker |
| Relationship status: | married |
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| Number of years sailing: | less than 1 |
| Sea miles sailed: | Ocean: 1000 / Coastal: 5000 |
| Nights at sea: | 11-49 |
| I have experience as: | Captain (Offshore) |
| Sailing Skills | Experienced I have done this many times and am confident to help others less experienced. I am happy doing this day |
Competent I am competent doing this in daylight, or if there is someone more experienced with me |
Basic I have only done this a few times, but I am willing to learn |
None I have not done this before |
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| Steer a compass course |  | |||
| Keep lookout/watch-keeping | | |||
| Trimming sails – mainsail and foresail/jib | | |||
| Reefing | | |||
| Working the foredeck – setting sails including spinnakers and cruising chutes | | |||
| Navigating with GPS and paper charts at sea | | |||
| Anchoring and handling anchors | | |||
| Cooking at sea | | |||
| Using dinghies with outboard motors | | |||
| Heaving-to and other heavy weather tactics | |
