Lars-Åke Redéen
With a background as a daily news journalist, Lars-Åke Redéen has been IBI’s Scandinavian correspondent for 30 years as well as the long-standing the Editor-in-Chief of for Scandinavia’s biggest boating title, Batliv Magazine. An experienced boater he has built an impressive network throughout the marine business, especially in the Nordic countries.
As a boat owner himself, Lars-Åke tries to spend as much time as possible on the water with his Buster SuperMagnum speed boat or with one of his smaller sailing boats. He lives in Karlskrona, in the South-East corner of Sweden.
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