Multihull Company France is expertly served by TMC Senior Broker, Alexis de Boucaud, and agents Jean Gerber and Bernard Tarres.
Alexis grew up racing dinghies in the waters of Brittany, France. He immigrated to the United States as a young man and developed his interest in offshore cruising and racing in New England and the Bahamas. Alexis began his professional yachting career as a charter captain sailing the storied seas of French Polynesia on a Fountaine-Pajot Marquises 56 catamaran. There he developed a talent for sharing and communicating his love for bluewater sailing to his worldly guests. More recently, Alexis spent ten years managing Nautor’s Swan Charters, a high-end charter company with over fifty Swans based in the Caribbean, New England and the Mediterranean. While at Nautor’s Swan, Alexis coordinated sales of new yachts through the French defiscalisation program. He later instituted a successful yacht sales and management program to develop the fleet in non-French territories. This experience gave him substantial experience in the many facets of yacht sales and brokerage in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. Alexis is bilingual English-French. He was educated in the United States and has worked in the US, Europe and the Caribbean. He has sailed extensively on multihulls and particularly enjoys performance cats.
Bernard discovered his passion for catamarans at the age of 16, sailing in Brittany and spent several years honing his skills at sailing schools. At 18, he purchased his own Hobie Cat 16 and raced along the French and Italian coastlines. From 1986 to 1990, he served as a permanent crew member on several racing catamarans, including JET SERVICE and ORANGE. He also raced on Formula 40’ and set records aboard CHARLEMAGNE. In 1992, he had the opportunity to join the largest cruising catamaran project at the time, working on HIGHEST HONOUR 1 & 2, which were built in the South of France. He served as a technical reference for seven months and completed four Atlantic crossings on board, as well as a refit back in France. His technical expertise was highly valued throughout this period. With his professional French captain’s license in hand, he has since sailed on large monohull and multihull boats in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the East Coast of the United States, and French Polynesia.
Jean was born in 1985 in Toulouse where he grew up on the family farm with four sisters. From the age of 22 to 30, he worked 7 months a year as offshore cruising instructor for a sailing school in Brittany, while the rest of the year he was a freelance captain doing deliveries and charters between Europe, the Caribbean, USA, Tahiti and New Zealand. He then went full time as a freelance captain, mostly delivering for charter companies and boat manufacturers before slowly transitioning on providing personalized boating instruction and experience to new boat owners. After 40+ deliveries, including 11 Atlantic and Pacific crossings, and 18 years working in the industry, Jean has been all over the world and intensely sailed Europe, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, and the Caribbean, on monohull and catamarans ranging from 30 to 82 feet, across 10+ yacht builders. Jean is now using this knowledge and expertise to help owners on their coastal and offshore projects, from finding the right boat until they reach full autonomy.
As the world’s largest truly global brokerage company specializing in catamarans and trimarans, The Multihull Company is ready to assist you if you wish to buy or sell a multihull in France, or anywhere in Europe.
