Who is Captain Lou Boudreau

Captain Lou Boudreau was born in Canada, and first went to sea when he was six months old aboard the famous 98 foot schooner “Yankee”. His father owned and sailed the schooner in the beautiful Bras D’Or Lakes of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. When Boudreau was about one year old, he took his first ocean voyage aboard the schooner “Doubloon” with his mother and father. This momentous first sail aboard this large schooner would take Boudreau away from Canada and onto a life of adventure in the warmer islands of the Caribbean. Growing up aboard his father’s schooners and on the island of St. Lucia, Boudreau spent a magical childhood exploring every nook and cranny of these large yachts, and under the guidance of his father, learned the ropes of life at sea. Spending most of his early life in Marigot Bay, St. Lucia, Lou became fluent in Patois, the local language of St. Lucia.

As a young adult, Boudreau began sailing as a crew member with his father and, after sitting for his Master’s papers, he went on to skipper the 90 foot ketch “Atlanta”, and the 138 foot Hereshoff schooner “Mariette”. Over the years, Captain Lou Boudreau has been fortunate to have skippered some of the finest yachts in the world.

After swallowing the anchor in 1996, Boudreau returned to Canada and began writing. His first book, “The Man Who Loved Schooners”, was published by Nimbus Publishing in 2000. A fictional novel, “Fandango’s Gold”, followed in 2006 and “Where the Trade Winds Blow”, published in 2012, chronicles his own life growing up in the Caribbean.

Several of his stories were also published in the anthology “We Belong to the Sea”, compiled by Meddy Stanton.