Exchange your Boats, Share your Horizons
TUESDAY, 29 JULY 2008
For a boat owner whose free time is limited by professional constraints, it is not easy to go sailing far away from his usual mooring spot. The only possibility is renting a boat, an addition to an already plump "boat" budget.
As he was tickled by his desire of discovering new sailing grounds, and confronted to the impossibility of bringing his own boat there due to lack of time, Jacques Moy checked the Internet to find out if there was a boat exchange system similar to those that promote home exchanges so successfully. He was very surprised to find nothing and the more he was thinking of it, the more he was feeling like digging the idea.
Bruno Maschelein and Philippe Le Goff later joined him in this adventure and, together, they launched www.seemysea.com without dropping their respective professional activities. A more professional approach, absolutely necessary to develop an efficient matching offers tool, quickly followed the initial "amateurish" one.
The purpose of www.seemysea.com is to create an extensive network of boat owners
who wish to discover new destinations and share their knowledge of their respective usual sailing grounds in a background of free exchange and open-mindedness.
Since it has been launched at the beginning of 2008, www.seemysea.com has welcomed boat owners from all over the world. From Seattle to the Great Lakes of North America, from the Norwegian fjords to Geneva Lake, from Brittany to Marseille, and from the Baleares to La Rochelle via the Canaries and the Caribbean, an extensive selection of destinations is made available and preliminary contacts are taking place.
SEEMYSEA Services
SeeMySea's ambition is to trigger as many exchanges as possible between boat owners and help them travel pleasantly. With that in mind, SeeMySea make available, for their benefit, the following:
- A personal subscriber's profile which can be accessed and edited by subscribers themselves, at their own convenience.
- A powerful search engine to locate matching offers.
- A bilingual website (French & English) soon to be enriched with the addition of Italian, Spanish, German, and Dutch versions.
- Technical and legal contents (advice on insurance, liabilities, etc...) to help prepare exchanges.
- Downloads to prepare for departure (typical swap agreement, inventory, and supply lists...).
Visit www.seemysea.com for more information.
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