Marine biologist Belinda Chesman and partner Kit McAllister sailed the south coast of England and France for years in a Contessa 32 before buying Quilcene, their cutter-rigged Bowman 40 in 2007.

They left Plymouth and cruised the Med, Canary and Cape Verde islands. They sailed transatlantic to South America in 2014 and cruised the Caribbean and Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Cuba, East coast USA into Canada.