Chad van herk biography

​Born on the island of Tortola in the sailing paradise of the British Virgin Islands, Chad is the son and second child of a Canadian father and an American mother who found themselves operating a modest beach bar in that archipelago in the late 70's and early 80's. At six months of age, Chad was loaded up on the family sailboat and the four embarked upon a circumnavigation of the Earth that would take them to over 40 countries over the next 5 years. Along the way, Chad gained another sibling, and the five Van Herks returned to the US where they now find themselves-most of the time, anyway.

Such an initial upbringing begets a fearless sense of discovery and a profound love and respect for the sea. Chad's parents, however, decided it best to provide him with a proper education, so how to keep him from getting distracted by the ocean? They moved to Indiana, his mother's home state, and landlocked him away.

It was in Plymouth, Indiana, where Chad began his primary