Preceded by 3 generations of seafarers, fishermen and explorers, my first summer job in 1974 was building GRP sailboats in a small boatyard near the docks in Antwerp, Belgium.
Working professionally in the marine industry since 1979, primarily as a yacht skipper and ocean racer, Kim Skov-Nielsen has sailed over 130,000 blue water miles worldwide. Amassing a wide range of valuable experience - from building boats to sailing them around the world, from being bosun on a 12m at the America's Cup to being a Project Manager at America's Cup & Whitbread Round the World Race level, Kim Skov-Nielsen has also done several seasons in the mountains as a ski bum, a year as a timeshare salesman for Marriott's and a few months as a trainee paramedic.
Tired of globetrotting and armed with a diploma in Marine Surveying, Kim established a surveying business in Spain delivering a range of survey and consultancy work to clients worldwide.
Surveying milestones have been to survey and value the Challenge Business fleet of 19 Steel sailing yachts. And a short time thereafter to survey and value the Clipper Challenge fleet of GRP yachts.
Recent surveys (2008) : Aicon 72 MY in Ft. Lauderdale, Ocean 72' ketch SY in Holland, Cheoy Lee 66' MY in Ft Pierce, Lagoon 460 SY in Alicante, 35m SuperMaxi all-carbon racing yacht in Marseilles . |
