Eddie Arsenault

Shipwright/ Refit/ Technical

Eddie Arsenault was born in 1985 in the Acadian community on the West of Prince Edward Island. As the son of the Confederation Bridge pilot, Eddie has been around watercraft all his life - from small dinghies and kite-boards to fishing boats and sailboats - to pilot boats and even oil tankers. From a very young age, Eddie was enthused by designing and constructing anything and everything his mind could conceive of - much to the chagrin of his father, who always found his workshop overrun by Eddie and all his projects. Eddie thus already developed practical skills in construction and fabrication as a child, as well as his engineering mind, to find ways to create all that he wished to. By the age of 16, Eddie was already so accomplished in welding, that he was able to get his formal welding qualifications, and thus chose the path of welding/fabrication and accumulated machinist experience along the way 

Although Eddie is very low-key and stays out of the lime-light of social media and of advertising himself (yes, indeed, it took a lot of coercing and persuading him to even allow us to put his bio here on the site), his superior workmanship, skills, perfectionism and talent have earned him a wide-spread reputation of the "can-do-anything"  machinist and fabricator of Prince Edward Island. In addition to this, he is exceptionally adept at boat-building, mechanics, electrics, plumbing - in short - at anything he wishes to be and that interests him. He is also extremely hard-working, and people marvel at how much work experience in how many different fields he has been able to accumulate in the mere 36 years that he has been on the planet.

There simply could not be a better person than Eddie Arsenault to be refitting and preparing a boat for one of the toughest sailing challenges on the planet, and some of the toughest conditions a sailboat could ever expect.