As a professional educator, Judy has blended her profession with her passion for the sea to promote safety at sea. As one of about fifteen across Canada, Judy teaches offshore personal survival courses to ocean racers and offshore cruisers.
As the senior instructor evaluator for keelboat instructors for Sail Canada in Atlantic Canada, Judy has been a long-time learning facilitator and especially encourages women to become more engaged with the sailing world. Judy has sailed the length of Patagonia in Chile and to Antarctica and back to Chile with friends on their sixty-five-foot expedition sailboat and has skippered her own boat from Newfoundland to the Dominican Republic as well as across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean as far as Greece. This past winter and spring, with her partner Andrew and her two daughters, she sailed her boat Semper Vivens from the Canaries to the Caribbean and back to Canada. Both daughters, Steph and Marine, have also been sighted driving Zodiacs for Adventure Canada!
When not sailing, Judy spends her winters ski patrolling and travelling to far corners of the world enjoying what different cultures and languages have to offer.