Charles Gerard is a french and english speaking German with 25 years experience in the hire boat business and is an authority on the technical side of boating and the waterways tourist industry. 

Charles deals with our port infrastructures as well as our relations with the canal and local authorities. He is in charge of all future projects at H2O.

Catherine RAULT has been with H2O since early days and is in charge of our second hand boat and barge brokerage business. She is an expert on boat sales and can give you full details of all of the boats that we have for sale.

She is also one of the few people capable of navigating through the mounds of paperwork that buying a barge or a canal boat can entail. She can advise you on such complicated matters such as boat registration, driving permits etc. You can call her direct: 0 380 390 809.

Phillippe GERARD is our chief technician and is solely in charge of the workshops and the technical staff. He speaks excellent english and french. 

He is the person to contact for any jobs to be done on your boat from small break downs, all electrical installations, bow thrusters, heating, painting,  haulouts, complete barge conversions etc.

You can call him direct on 06 82 30 80 01.

Since he was 2 years old, Max GERARD has been involved with H2O and boats. He has worked abroad on large day-passenger boats and in new boat construction and has now returned to be a young and enthusiastic director of H2O.

Max is in charge of developing our websites and is involved in boat sales and marketing.

You can call him direct on 0 380 390 726.

Nicolas has been with H2O for many years now and is the person to contact for Linssen Yacht sales.

If you are selling your boat please contact him by mail or by telephone direct 0 380 390 724.

Nicolas speaks fluent french, english, swedish and german. He is almost as tall as Phillipe.

This is the face that most boaters get to know first. Jean Paul is our harbourmaster and our shop keeper. 

In the chandlery, Jean Paul will try and supply you with the strange and wonderful things that you need for your your boat. Here the unusual is usual. 

Jean Paul will also find you a good mooring place for your boat. 

He speaks english, french and german.

Viviane is in charge of the accounts. Never has any company had a better kept book-keeping system. Be careful as she knows to the nearest centime the state of your account with H2O.

You will have to practice your french on her.