Marc & Jo Turner
chatting. We walked to the summit of The Cobbler together and we didn’t stop talking.”
A year later, Scott, 30, who is a chemical industry technician, proposed to Dominique at the top of the Devil’s Staircase in Glencoe while the couple were walking the West Highland Way.
That month, they also bought a house together in Denny, Stirlingshire. Now the couple have plans to get married in Glencoe or Kinlochleven, either at the foot of a mountain or on the shores of Loch Leven.
THEIR eyes met across the bow of a sailing boat at Largs Regatta Week – and more than 20 years later Jo and Marc are married with two children.
The couple, from Largs, North Ayrshire, are still keen sailors and along with their children Emily, 12, and 10-year-old Ben, they enjoy sailing the Scottish waters in their 6.7m (22ft) keel boat.
Marc, 44, a communications and marketing Manager at Royal Yachting Association Scotland, says, “Jo and I met as part of a big crowd of sailing friends in the early ’90s.
“I then engineered a kind of date with Jo in her home village of Tarbert on Loch Fyne by ‘accidentally’ leaving my wallet with her at the Largs Regatta.
“She couldn’t say no – and we found we got along really well.”
After a few years spent apart in the mid-1990s – “although we were still friends” – while Jo went to university and Marc travelled, they reunited in 2000.
In 2004, during a sailing trip together, Marc proposed under a star-lit sky. Jo recalls the moment as “amazingly romantic”.
Sailing also featured in their wedding and
They’ve also bagged 30 Munros and Corbetts together and aim to hike all 282 Munros “eventually”.
Dominique, a teacher, says, “It has been a whirlwind because we only met in April, 2017 but we share a love of walking, travelling in our campervan and of dogs.
“When you have shared interests you are able to spend more time together doing the things you like – you don’t have to compromise your hobbies to spend time with each other.” honeymoon in 2005, when the couple sailed to their wedding ceremony in Tarbert and then around Scotland’s west coast to Skye.
Jo, also 44, country centre manager at Kelburn Castle, says, “Sailing is a big feature in our lives, as individuals as well as a couple, and now as a family.”
Marc adds, “We encourage our kids to get afloat whether sailing with us or enjoying windsurfing in the summer at Clyde Windsurfing Club.
“A good family day for us is spent outdoors, whether on the water or walking. We all come back refreshed with memories to share.”
“Sailing is a big feature in our lives, as individuals, a couple and now as a family