We post videos on our YouTube channel @biotreksailing to share our sailing, travel, and to raise awareness of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM). If you enjoy our videos and wish to support our initiative, please use this link. We sail with our dog Tiller and enjoy your comments on the YouTube videos that we post.

We named the our catamaran BioTrek for Lisa’s passion to explore our biological world, and Pierre’s passion for StarTrek and exploration. With our previous catamaran, also named BioTrek, we sailed around the world then returned full-time to our careers. We have now completed our second circumnavigation.

With BioTrek, we sailed the the Mediterranean summer 2019, then crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean December 2019. In the pandemic spring of 2020 we returned to our home in Boston, and sailed around New England before returning to the Caribbean May 2021. We crossed the Panama canal to French Polynesia March 2022 and spent a year in French Polynesia. In April 2023 we set sail to Vanuatu to re-join the GLYWO world rally. We sailed across the Indian Ocean in 2023 and spent Christmas in Cape Town South Africa. The we sailed across the South Atlantic Ocean to St. Helena Island, Brazil, the Caribbean and then home.

BioTrek is no longer ours but we will continue to post videos as we search for a new boat suited for coastal cruising.

BioTrek Sailing Channel

We are Pierre, Lisa and Tiller, sailing a performance Outremer 5X catamaran . After sailing around the world fifteen years ago, we returned to careers we loved, but the yearning to liveaboard again kept getting stronger. Sailing across oceans is part of who we are: Pierre is a former Olympic sailor, entrepreneur, Star-trekky, and engineering wiz who keeps BioTrek in top shape. Lisa is a neuroscientist with a love of biology and our natural world. Tiller is our labradoodle who grew up on board and has sailed over 20,000 miles since being a puppy. Together we are BioTrek and we set out to discover ocean landscapes, explore our biological world, meet new people, and appreciate diverse cultures along the way.

BioTrek Sailing Channel
Sailing towards the eye of the storm for our Gulf Stream crossing, we journey home from the Caribbean at the end of a three-year circumnavigation. The videos will continue, as we sell our boat, review the best and worst of sailing, and look forward to new journeys.
Momentous occasion in St Martin. Selling BioTrek!!! Our journey is not over, we just approach a new beginning!
Something different! We've sailed to New England in time to celebrate July 4th. With a hand-held camera it was difficult to hold it steady above the heads of the crowd, but the audio captures the spirit! Many lessons for modern times in the Declaration of Independence. Read July 4th 2024 in Boston at the State House, the same place where it was first read to American colonists.
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