Free Personal Cruise Coaching

The boot Düsseldorf cruising coaches are looking forward to interesting consulting sessions in Hall 13 at the Destination Seaside! Our experts will help you in individual conversations at the Cruise Information Centre with the right choice of sailing destinations and information on the most beautiful harbours and anchorages worldwide, the best restaurants and bars as well as on equipment required on board, such as nautical charts, harbour handbooks and weather information. Interested trade fair visitors can book an appointment with the consultants in advance on the internet.

For the very special dream destinations such as the Caribbean, the South Seas or the Seychelles, circumnavigator Mareike Guhr is the right contact. She knows her way around all the oceans and passionately describes the most beautiful anchorages on our planet. She is also happy to provide information about the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and many areas of the Mediterranean.

She is an experienced skipper, sailing journalist and the blue water expert in the team. Therefore she is happy to advise long-distance sailors and those who want to become one. As an enthusiastic multihull sailor, she is also an expert for catamaran cruises.

The woman from Hamburg learned to sail on her family's trimarans and has been sailing on various ships across all oceans for over 30 years. The author of the book "Blau Türkis Grün" has worked as a skipper for charter agencies, led many crews on voyages and regattas, and often sailed with all-female teams. She is particularly passionate about promoting and training women in sailing.

More information on www.magsail.de.

Markus Goeschl has been a passionate sailor for over 20 years and will embark on his 6th Atlantic crossing during this edition of boot. With more than 35,000 nautical miles under his belt, he is well-acquainted with the beauty of bluewater sailing and, through his many holiday trips as a skipper, has explored nearly all the sailing areas in the Mediterranean, around the Canary Islands, Azores, the Solent (Southern England), Thailand, and the Caribbean.

Markus also has extensive knowledge in planning delivery voyages, such as routes from the Mediterranean through the Red Sea to Thailand or from Brazil through the Magellan Strait in Patagonia to Chile.

The native of Regensburg caught the sailing bug during his studies in Cologne. Since then, he has sailed countless charter weeks for various providers and has spent many years working as a professional skipper for deliveries, regattas, training courses, skipper trainings, and continues to lead charter trips with guests.

As a long-time skipper on charter trips, Monika Lehn has extensive knowledge of the area. She knows what is important when chartering and planning a trip and is able to assess which areas are suitable for the respective crew. She is also happy to recommend worthwhile destinations for shore excursions.

Her main areas of focus in the Mediterranean are Greece, Croatia, Southern France, Italy, Malta and Corsica. She is also happy to advise on transfers between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and is very familiar with the Canary Islands and the Seychelles. She has extended her experience with tidal waters on the French Atlantic coast and in northern Australia. She often sails with all-female crews.

The social education worker and systemic counsellor explored the German Bight and the Wadden Sea intensively on her self-built cruising catamaran at the end of the 1990s. Many cruises followed and in 2015 she made sailing her main profession. Today, she organises and accompanies crews in various sailing areas and passes on her practical knowledge in individual sailing training. In particular, she likes to support women in strengthening their self-confidence in their own abilities and in developing their sailing skills.
More information about the person at www.Monika-Lehn.de

Born in Emden, he has been sailing since childhood and has been primarily chartering in the Mediterranean as a charter skipper for many years. However, he is also well-acquainted with the Baltic Sea and assists in planning. He enjoys introducing other sailors to new, unknown sailing areas. His favourite sailing areas are the Finnish and Swedish archipelagos.

The passionate Finn dinghy sailor now lives in Vienna, gives sailing training in a yacht school in Izola and is co-owner of a Sun Odyssey 42.

The journalist has been travelling on the water since the 1970s - under sail and under motor. During his studies in Berlin, he obtained his boating licence, chartered regularly in the Mediterranean and soon took on the role of skipper on numerous boat transfers for German charter companies in the Mediterranean. At the end of the 1980s, he turned his hobby into a profession: he took over the helm of the travel department at the motorboat magazine BOOTE, which he headed until 2010. He has been working as a freelance water sports author since 2010: He has published several inland guides and two coastal handbooks about Croatia.

Strassburger's favourite area is Croatia, which he travelled to on sailing and motorboats back in Yugoslavian times. He provides knowledgeable tips on the islands, bays and harbours of the Slovenian, Croatian and Montenegrin Adriatic.

He also specialises in European inland waters from Sweden via Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and the Danube to Hungary. But he also knows his way around the coastal waters of the Ionian Sea, Italy, Spain (including the Balearic Islands) and France.

As a ‘North German boy’, he is of course also very familiar with the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea from Germany via Denmark to Poland and Lithuania (Klaipeda).

As an experienced consultant for travel topics, he is also happy to help with questions about ‘getting started in water sports’ and gives tips on all questions ‘about chartering’.