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Bert is an active member of the Gabriola Island Power and Sail Squadron (CPS-ECP) and until recently, the Educational Officer. He is also a member of the Silva Bay Yacht Club, Gabriola Island, the Ocean Cruising Club. [...] His background includes a masters degree in oceanography, martial arts, and developing search engine software. He has recently set sail to fulfill a life-long dream, to circumnavigate the globe, single handed, west to east, via the five capes, using no electronic navigation, only celestial navigation, while preforming several scientific environmental research projects. He has skippered his boat several times to the Bering Sea.
Salty, the seal, is is forever help aboard, contributing greatly to the skipper's sanity.
He was recently honoured as a co-recipient of an OCC Challenge Grant to help facilitate meritorious voyages of adventure of environmental concern. It is the first time a person from North America has attempted such a challenge. We are optimistically hopeful to see Bert back home on Gabriola Island in about seven months.
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