About

Jérémie is a 26 year old dual canadian and american citizen. He has worked on and around tall ships since I was 16, having started sailing at 12 on the Ottawa River and the Thousand Island region in Canada.

He began as a summmer camper with STV Black Jack with Bytown Brigantine Inc. in 2013, spending 2 weeks on board a summer for 4 years until 2015 when he joined Bytown Brigantine’s second ship STV Fair Jeanne in 2016, remaining with the ship in various roles until 2021, including as both an engineer and deckhand as well as spent the winters in a maintenance and teaching position for prospective ships crew.

In summer of 2021 Jérémie also started working with Brigs Youth Sail Training in Hamilton, Ontario, joining a volunteer in 2021 on their brigantine, TS Playfair and returning to work as a First Mate onboard STV Pathfinder the following summer. Since then he has been consistently involved with the programs, helping run winter camps, volunteering as relief mate and helping with odd maintenance projects for the ships.

Through these jobs Jérémie has completed his STCW training, all of which can be found listed below in a CV format, his Mate 60T Restriced license, SVMO Restricted, and ROC-MC qualification. He is approaching completion of his Mate and Master 150T certificates as well as beginning the process of transferring equivalency certificates in the United States with the USCG.

Following his summer as Mate in the Great Lakes with Brigs, Jérémie joined the Picton Castle in Lunenburg, Canada for their 8th World Voyage and through this completed most of a circumnavigation, sailing the 3 masted 180′ barque from eastern Canada, through the Panama Canal all the way to Cape Town, South Africa, crossing the Pacific and Indian Oceans along the way. The voyage, along with an extensive shipyard period before departure, taught him alot in regards to sailing and maintaining larger ships in a sea going state, as well as helping round out his wire working and other more traditional rigging skills.

Since returning from Picton Castle, he has worked on several more formal professional tall ship rigging jobs, from smaller downrigs of brigantines in Canada with DeNoble Rigging to a major uprig on the Shabab Oman II in Oman, following its major rig overhaul. This job was done with Sailmaster Rigging out of the Netherlands and provided experience with the operation of modern tall ship rigging jobs, using cranes, cherry picks, forklifts and other modern equipment in the context of traditional sail vessel rigging. He is now certified in Canada in the use of cherry pickers and scissor lifts. He also helped lead the rigging of a Jarvis Winch, a highly specialised winch for braces on larger ships invented in the XXX by XXX.

In contrast to these modern rigging positions, Jérémie also worked the summer of 2025 with the San Francisco Maritime Museum in a rigging capacity. The San Francisco Maritime Museum operates several late 19th century ships, all maintained to period accuracy, of which one is a 3 masted schooner and the other a 300′ Clyde built Cape Horner, the Balclutha.

For a more formal description of experience and qualifications please find a downloadable CV here.