Dominique Montesinos Long-distance sailor, correspondent in the West Indies

Dominique Montesinos who is nicknamed "Domi" was born in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and lived there until he was 9 years old. Passionate about technology and boats, he decided to become a sailor at the age of 10. He fulfilled this wish at the age of 17, with a BAC F2 in his pocket, by embarking for 18 months on cargo ships of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique as a student mechanical officer . 14 transats later, he put his bag on land and started learning to sail on board a Cavale and a Muscadet .

In 1979, he took the start of the double-handed Transat Lorient-Les Bermudes-Lorient with the woman he had married 5 years earlier. They raced with a boat that they had built entirely with their own hands: 57 days at sea, "the old-fashioned way", sailing with a sextant and no radio. For 6 years, they raced and built. In 1986, they sold their foiler trimaran (the first Lombard design) and stopped competing.

Dominique will then take on different "nautical" jobs, starting as a workshop manager at Jeanneau Advanced Techniques (JTA), where he will lead the manufacture of the first Lagoon in history, one of his best memories.

Ãeuros is approaching fifty, after a very busy professional life including ten years in the production of composite material parts, then the management of a factory NBCC and finally the responsibility of the subcontracting department of Jeanneau, Dominique and Malou reactivate their youthful project: to sail around the world in a sailboat!

They sail a 64' catamaran (19,85 m) to accomplish a 7 year loop to discover the planet. Domi then discovers a taste for writing which gives life to six books .

And it is always on a journey, with a great joy and a real pleasure to share that he intègre la rédaction de Bateaux.com, improbable "bizuth" of 68 yearsâeuros¦