The Idea
This just started as a " latte at Starbucks" idea about making jackets and bags from recycled cloth and old sails. It rapidly evolved into the concept of not just any cloth but famous materials. We thought it would be cool to have a bag with a piece of a sail from the America's Cup or from the Space Shuttle parachute. After having spent a weekend in New York and having seen so many Vuitton and Prada bags; they must have been giving them away! We thought that the authenticity factor: "Is it a real so and so bag?" was really being challenged. Copies and fakes were everywhere eroding the "exclusive cachet" of branded bags. What is authenticity in a product or brand? How can you tell if it is a fake? We thought that one way to ensure authenticity is to take authentic materials. Wouldn't that be cool if you could have a bag with a real piece of famous material rather than have a bag with a brand fabric (read Louis Vuitton) that may or may not be the real thing! We wanted to offer something real as a piece of adventure into a bag rather than just a new brand of well-designed bags. This is how we started looking for famous materials (sails, space parachutes) and this is where we are now.

I have been involved in marketing and sales since 1986. I have worked for some of the largest companies in the world (Ford Motor Credit, Peugeot, Teleglobe) and with very small startups helping them to sell, market and merchandize their products around the world. I have worked in marketing around the world (USA, Bahamas, Australia, Indonesia, Poland). I love to create original and innovative products and to market them. This is why I founded Everquest design: To Bring a piece of history and adventure to our customers in an everyday product. A bag that is guaranteed to be authentic!

We are always looking for relics for our next collection. If you have Famous relics that you think can be marketed please contact us.

Sailor and Founder:
Peter is the sailor and the voice of reason and experience on the team. He acts as an advisor and relic hunter in finding sails and sailing-related relics. He has extensive sailing experience as you can see with the different titles he held at one point or another in his sailing career. He is a major participant on the senior management team. He asks the hard questions and is involved in resolving business issues and integrating solutions into our business strategy and shares with us his extensive business experience in the telecommunication, aerospace, engineering, technology and transportation sectors.

Sailing Credentials:
Helmsman in soling, lightning competitions, National Sailing Team 1975-84, 87,91,95
World Cup Soling Champion 1977
Lightning World Champion 1989
CORK (Canadian Olympic Racing at Kingston) -Gold - 1977, 1979 Silver - 1976, 78, 80, 81,94
Kiel Week Silver 1977 Soling, Bronze 1978 Soling
North Americans Bronze 1983 Soling
European Championship Bronze 1978 Soling
Pan Am Games Lightning - Silver - 1987, 4th - 1991, 4th -1995
Sailor of the Year 1989 (Canada)
Quebec Merit Award 1979, 1989

The Astronaut.
Serguei was involved in the Russian space program for 1977 to 1989. He is someone who felt the breath of the cosmos on his brow. Serguei Vasilievich Bedziouk was born in 1954 in the town of Rybinsk. After graduating from the Moscow Aviation Institute (now Aero-Space University) he worked at the Scientific Production Association (NPO Energia. (now the S. P. Korolev Rocket . Space Corporation .Energia.). He passed medical screening and was approved for space flight and for several years was a cosmonaut candidate on the Energia team. He trained many cosmonauts who ended up at the MIR Space station. In 1996 he moved to Canada and he is currently working for the Canadian Space Agency at the Astronaut Office as a Project Manager. Serguei gives robotics instruction on Canada's manipulator (Canadarm-2.) for the International Space Station crews. Serguei is our relic hunter for space relics and advisor on business and strategy issues.