Meet The Crew

Meet the Crew

Hi! We are Martijn and Martine, two 50+ liveaboard Dutchies. We met early in season 2016, when Martine moved to a new marina where Martijn happened to be one of the long-time liveaboards. 

From 2016 to mid 2024, we’ve been happily floating apart together (Martijn on his Victoire 1270 and Martine on her Moody 346). But life happens, adventure calls and now we’ve sold our boats and bought Nalu. And yes – we’re moving in together! Oh boy.

About us

Martijn

has not only owned, but also built larger sailing yachts himself. At age 24, he started building a (steel) Danish Rose 42.

When he was 35, he bought a casco Colin Archer type Northern Light 51 and build himself and his partner at the time a beautiful liveaboard boat.
In 2016, he bought his first ‘plastic’ boat: a Victoire 1270, built by the renowned Dutch Victoire yard.

Martijn has been very succesfully self-employed in the Maritime Maintenance & Repair sector, doing construction work, welding (with electrodes and MIG/MAG & TIG welding), pipe fitting (cooling, exhaust and hydrolic pipes; bending and mounting), maintaining, replacing and outlining engines etcetra – all of this mostly on barges / cargo ships.

He’s also not afraid to work his magic on and with polyester and epoxy – for instance, removing the full teak deck  of his Victoire.

Martine

grew up on both steel and polyster boats and spent most of her time on & around the Dutch waters.  She’s been aliveaboard for over 10 years now, and has exclusively owned and lived on polyester sailingboats (buying her first one at the age of 16).

Her father was a very technically inclined man, so she learned about boat ownership and maintenance from an early age. While she didn’t think it was any fun at the time, she’s now very grateful for everything she learned from him.

Martine is self-employed as a WordPress developer / Webdesigner, and she’s pretty good with computers in general. This comes in handy onboard as well; she’s the one choosing, upgrading and maintaining the onboard computers (including Raspberry Pi’s) , tablets and all the apps and hardware we use for navigation, routing etcetera.