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Hi. Anyone fancy a trip to the med?
We are going to take a 75 foot boat back to the med. I need at least 1 pref 2 more crew to help out. You don't need to be vastly motorboatily experienced, but the ability to help moor up and/or cook bacon sarnies, and /or gawp at a radar screen and/or tell bad jokes and otherwsie be cheerful regardless and not get to seasick much would all be positive advantages. Speaking spanish a bit more than "hola!" might also be handy, or dieselly engined fixing, or um perhaps related to an oil magnate with acces to free fuel (a long shot this one, I admit) or you mite have other incredible skills that i hadn't thought of. PM me if interested.
More info:
Boat is Leopard 23metre, MCA coded and currently in Soton ashore, getting engines etc serviced/fixed etc. etc. Pix at http://www.diana23.com
Route is Southampton UK to Antibes near Nice. Ideally, we will refuel at or near Brest on NW corner of France, La Coruna on NW corner Spain, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Altea, Barcelona and end at Antibes (nr Nice). It's approx 2000 miles for the full trip, and we plan to "go for it " - and do the whole trip in about 7-8 days, driving overnight and landing for refueling during the day. Yep, it's a delivery trip, with no sightseeing ashore really, but each refuelling stop takes at least three hours.
If the weather holds us back too much we may leave the boat in a marina, fly home, and the boat can be taken onwards another time. We are looking for a reasonable weather window, not setting off regardless in rubbish ghastly weather.
I am commercial YM, and skippered the northward trip last year. I already have one other experienced skipperish type coming as well.
The deal is that I pay for your flights home from agreed destination (hopefuly Nice) and provisioning the boat. You get yourself to the boat at start. You don't get paid for the trip, but you don't get charged either, and we're just bound to get further than that Aurora crusise ship eh?
Don't put yourself foward if you plan to "see how it goes" as one person suggested last time (we didn't take them - esp when he said "I can always get off at the first stop if I don't fancy it") - you should be a bit keen, not planning to bail out. I supose you can bail out early, but then you can jolly well pay to get yerself home.
You should be a *bit* flexy about time too, so don't say well i can come but only provided we Definitely get back in one week and no more - we have to consider boat/weather/safety first, not second to your schedule. But again, it shouldn't take long - we won't be hanging around in ports and we plan to go with a decent settledish forecast.
Last trip was quite good laugh, and worth loads of RYA sea-miles too. It's quite an adventure.
We are going to take a 75 foot boat back to the med. I need at least 1 pref 2 more crew to help out. You don't need to be vastly motorboatily experienced, but the ability to help moor up and/or cook bacon sarnies, and /or gawp at a radar screen and/or tell bad jokes and otherwsie be cheerful regardless and not get to seasick much would all be positive advantages. Speaking spanish a bit more than "hola!" might also be handy, or dieselly engined fixing, or um perhaps related to an oil magnate with acces to free fuel (a long shot this one, I admit) or you mite have other incredible skills that i hadn't thought of. PM me if interested.
More info:
Boat is Leopard 23metre, MCA coded and currently in Soton ashore, getting engines etc serviced/fixed etc. etc. Pix at http://www.diana23.com
Route is Southampton UK to Antibes near Nice. Ideally, we will refuel at or near Brest on NW corner of France, La Coruna on NW corner Spain, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Altea, Barcelona and end at Antibes (nr Nice). It's approx 2000 miles for the full trip, and we plan to "go for it " - and do the whole trip in about 7-8 days, driving overnight and landing for refueling during the day. Yep, it's a delivery trip, with no sightseeing ashore really, but each refuelling stop takes at least three hours.
If the weather holds us back too much we may leave the boat in a marina, fly home, and the boat can be taken onwards another time. We are looking for a reasonable weather window, not setting off regardless in rubbish ghastly weather.
I am commercial YM, and skippered the northward trip last year. I already have one other experienced skipperish type coming as well.
The deal is that I pay for your flights home from agreed destination (hopefuly Nice) and provisioning the boat. You get yourself to the boat at start. You don't get paid for the trip, but you don't get charged either, and we're just bound to get further than that Aurora crusise ship eh?
Don't put yourself foward if you plan to "see how it goes" as one person suggested last time (we didn't take them - esp when he said "I can always get off at the first stop if I don't fancy it") - you should be a bit keen, not planning to bail out. I supose you can bail out early, but then you can jolly well pay to get yerself home.
You should be a *bit* flexy about time too, so don't say well i can come but only provided we Definitely get back in one week and no more - we have to consider boat/weather/safety first, not second to your schedule. But again, it shouldn't take long - we won't be hanging around in ports and we plan to go with a decent settledish forecast.
Last trip was quite good laugh, and worth loads of RYA sea-miles too. It's quite an adventure.
