Johan Domeij
About me: I'm born 1988, I like adventures such as sailing, backpacking and taking opportunities on the fly. I like discussing philosophy and politics, as long as the mood remains positive. I like working with my hands and enjoy crafts of various types, from carpentry, metalworking and soldering, to sewing, knitting and painting. I like working with my mind, on problems ranging from navigation, mechanical repair, and inventing new stuff, to philosophy, science and physics. I like confronting problems head on, and to solve them as soon as possible, in order to stay on top of things and prevent them from growing and accumulating. I like helping and teaching other people. And I like sailing!
I dislike being bound to commitments months ahead of time, though I don't have a problem with it if the reward is worthwhile. I dislike to consume alcohol or drugs of any kind, though I don't have a problem with others doing that (to a point, at least while in port). I dislike conflicts, and when people can't get along. And I dislike motoring!
Sailing experience: I have done around 80'000 NM, about 12'000 as skipper. Passages include sailing non-stop from New Zealand to Capetown around Cape Horn and later back via Panama Canal; nonstop from New Zealand to La Reunion via Torres Strait on a catamaran; several Atlantic crossings, passages on the Pacific, the North Sea and a smattering of other experiences including evacuating researchers from Gough Island at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, taking research samples from Southern Right Whales in the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, sailing among the icebergs along the coast of Greenland between Umanaq and Nuuk, and owning my own sailboat since I was 19 years old. My travels have taken me all over the world, ranging from 71°N to 60°S, across every line of longitude.
I grew up on a 33 feet Colin Archer cutter every summer until I was 11, when my parents my brother and I sailed from Sweden down through Europe, The Caribbean, Panama, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Alaska, and then Vancouver. From there we flew back home after 3,5 years and some 18'000 NM or so. My dad and I have been back a couple of times since, and when I was 19 I bought a boat of my own, a Hurley 22.
After that I've done a some cruising and some deliveries, both at crew and as skipper, and in 2019 trough 2020 I sailed with RSV Evohe from New Zealand to Cape Town in order to support a mouse eradication effort on Gough Island. The project was cancelled due to Covid-19, and we had to go back out to the island for an evacuation mission, after which we sailed back to New Zealand via Panama Canal. I was made watch leader after the first passage. After some time in New Zealand I joined a 50 foot catamaran for delivery to Cape Town, this time going the other way around, north of Australia. During the summer of 2023 I was Co-Skipper on an expedition along the West coast of Greenland, from Illulisat north to Umanaq, and then south to Nuuk before a passage to the Azores.
Qualifications: The dropdown list in the "qualifications" tab on this website is rather limited. Aside from those listed there, I have a Swedish NFB Coastal Yachtmaster, and a commercial Australian AMSA Master <24m skippers ticket, valid for commercial ships up to 24 meters in length, up to 200 NM from shore.
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Great person and sailor.
Johan is someone you can really trust out on the oceans. I have learned a lot from him on our 6000nm trip together from Antigua to Stockholm. If it is any problems he will fix it no mather what it is. As a captain he is really trustworthy and meticulous, and he keeps calm even in hard weather or whatever the problems might be. I would love to sail more and learn more from him in the future.
19th May 2019