David Hayes & Isabelle Tremblay // Family Cruising
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2014
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
#53. David & Isabelle share their classic story of a ten-year dream-turned-reality to take their kids cruising. A French-Canadian couple from Quebec, David & Isabelle describe how after a bad ATV accident, David had an epiphany in his hospital bed, and their dream began. Ten years, two daughters, and three boats later, and their realizing it, halfway through an Atlantic circuit that took them to the Bahamas, down the Thorny Path to the BVI, across the Atlantic to Morocco and the Saraha desert, and now to Las Palmas where they're staging for the return. Get inspired!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
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| 1:56.9 | slash news, thanks to those of you who've already responded to some of the ideas I pitched in the |
| 2:02.1 | last newsletter. All right. So this episode is David and Isabel Hayes from the boat called Morning |
| 2:07.9 | Hayes. They sailed in the Caribbean 1500 last year. And this is basically a classic story of |
| 2:14.1 | a younger sailing couple fulfilling a dream that they had that started almost 10 years ago. |
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