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Tim Ardiel here

A few years since I sailed with you from the Marquises Islands to Tahiti, I still value the voyage very much in my memories. Thank-you for your emails I still follow your website as you travel around the world. I have my own 42 foot sailboat now, so I may see you out there sometime. This fall I plan on leaving Sechelt and heading down the west coast to San Diego and then November going on to Mexico. We hope to follow  a similar route to French Polynesia that you did before I met your boat. Thank-you for your help in developing a mind set that makes this kind of journey a possibility. I wish I had your ability in sailing a boat, but I guess that will come in time. The name on the boat when we got her was "JENNIE" I don't have any plans to change it, so store it in the back of your mind, someday you will see us in an anchorage somewhere, stop in we'll have a rum and coke waiting..
 FAIR WINDS 
 Tim.

Dear Paul

I can't thank you enough for this opportunity. It's people like you who take the time and effort to operate this really challenging business to people like us that open the doors to sailing offshore. I admire your superior skills as a seaman, chef, tour guide, entertainer. You truly are amazing! Thank you for Ar Seiz Avel making her safe & comfortable and for making this experience so enjoyable could not have asked for any more. I hope your future voyages are as varied and exciting as this one was!

Thank you Paul especially for your hospitality!

Linda Billings

Dear Paul

You are a wonderful teacher! Your patience and grace under all conditions will be an example to me as I continue my journey. I have always dreamed of doing a journey like this but my dream was surpassed by the reality of this trip could not imagine a better experience!

Thank again, luck on your next leg.

Paul Geunette.

The first night out I thought it was going to be a long 3 weeks and now I don't want to get off the boat! My first experience on a sailboat and a very positive one; I have felt [mostly] very safe on Ar Seiz Avel with her most capable skipper. Thank you for your patience, kindness and good humor! Hasta Luego!

Joanne Fraser

To Paul and Ar Seiz Avel

Thank you for allowing me the 21 days in the cruising world. It was an excursion into a completely different world for me. This adventure trip will stay with me till the rest of my lifetime. I received all the information and instruction I expected plus a whole lot more! I've always dreamed of the cruising life and because of your leadership and instruction I know now I will be cruising in the future but cannot repay anything to you that would compare with the experience of living through the last 21 days, maybe a "Bonnie Rait" tape may help!

Yours Truly "Five knot" Tim Hilman

Hi Paul

I would like to commend you on the great job you've done on putting together an Adventure holiday. It was not only an adventure but a great learning experience at the same time having a great time. Thanks to you I'll meet you somewhere on my own boat if I don't forget the navigation part.

Aloha!

Bud Steinman

La Paz - Hilo- Honolulu

To call this adventure sailing is an understatement. It was the "experience of a Life time "This boat is a wonderful gentle giant. It took everything and anything with a quiet determination that left you with a comfortable, secure feeling. It tamed the wild Pacific. Your abilities as a sailor leave all of us who aspire to be boaters, green with envy!

Thanks to you I've made some sense of the night sky. With you patient and expert lessons on celestial navigation I even had some idea of where we were (within the right hemisphere), of finding you're limits and stretching beyond them is the glue that binds us together with a strength most types of endeavors can't compare with. Those are the friendships that are formed aboard your magic boat!
Good luck on the next, homeward bond leg!

Thanks!! Happy Sailing!

Bill Burd

Hawaii to Vancouver

Polski

OFFSHORE For many a year I'd read accounts of others the deep blue unknown. Now thanks to the opportunity you offered I experienced OFFSHORE to its fullest. All sunshine, palm trees and daiquiri? NO-but a learning experience like none I've undertaken before. You and your boat are strong, yet caring teachers. You're willingness to teach as much as we wanted was greatly appreciated. Celestial navigation is no longer a mysterious art, while handling the boat, cooking, keeping watches and catching ma hi ma hi become second nature. You taught me a lot Polski and I'll never forget this trip!

Fred Leicester, Golden, B.C .

Ps If you are still offering these excellent trips in the near future I know I'll be back.

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