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Bart Gabriel

Bart has a Bachelor in Engineering from Maritime University of Antwerp. He’s rated as “Chief Engineer to 3000 KV engine power” (Non-nuclear!?) and works on supertugs of Norwegian design with 20,000 HP and six propellers, primarily with oil and gas installation platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Bart sailed a friend’s 8 meter boat to Spitzbergen across the Barents Sea. He’s done two Atlantic crossings with Lieve.

  posted by Frank | December 30, 2005  

Lieve Berghmans

Lieve has a Masters in Nautical Science from Maritime University of Antwerp. Now rated as “Chief Mate, All Ships”, She is Mate on 450 foot dredges, such as those used to build new ports, fix the beach in Acalpulco, or dikes in New Orleans. Lieve has made a crossing from Buenos Aires to Durban, essentially the same place we will cross the Southern Atlantic, and hopes the Maggie B’s passage will be much better. With Bart, when they were students, they built an 8 meter catamaran, sailed it from Portugal to Martinique, and sold it there for airfare home. Lieve sailed with Bart on the Plume d’Ange from Belgium to Portugal, the Canaries, the Cape Verdes and on to Salvador, where they met the Maggie B.

  posted by webmaster | December 30, 2005