Crewjacking

[claymore]

A former friend of mine has written me a Private Message announcing that he has taken the majority of my crew and whilst he states that he regrets this he appears not to be offering me compensation.
Having spent a considerable amount of time training the aforementioned ship-jumpers to get them up to a standard that would make them of any use to anyone - which has taken a deal of time and money - I feel that I have a case. So - should I:
A) Write and point this out and appeal to the miscreants better nature (dangerous assumption that he has one)
B) Calculate costs and invoice for services rendered in training personnel
C) Come clean and tell him that they are still a pair of useless beggars and wash my hands of the whole affair?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Once the birds fly the nest, they've gone, whether they soar like an eagle, or splat like a watermelon dropped from the BT Tower.

Accept it with good grace, and find some replacements that harbour no wider ambitions.

 

[westernsailor]

Get some very good looking lasses as replacements.

Show him what he is missing...

 

[sarabande]

If they survive the crossing, then I'd send the owner a modest invoice. He'll sign anything in the first 24 hours on land.

Perhaps it might be wise to get a disclaimer for all liability regarding aforementioned trained crew's actions re e.g. loss of FBs overboard on day three, inadvertent selection of backwards gear rather than forwards when parking, failure to provide flying fish for breakfast, presentation of complaint by Crew's Union and Foredeck Grievance Committee concerning the depth of the straw in the for'd stabling.

Do they realise they are sailing under articles ?

 

[cliff]

[ QUOTE ]
Accept it with good grace, and find some replacements that harbour no wider ambitions.

[/ QUOTE ]Mission Impossible - I fear! I mean his reputation has spread far and wide so I fear the only way for the "good" ship Claymore to replace crew is to resort to a press gang. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Either that or look through the ads for some desperate bodies trying to find crewing positions.

Maybe Suzy could be tempted to crew for capt. "Bligh" - might be ok if she likes FB and steamed haggis.
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[Twister_Ken]

Is Suzy OK with a cauli diet?

Breakfast. Cauliflower meusli with cauliflower toast, butter, cauliflower and brussel sprout jam

Lunch. Cauliflower and bacon sandwiches, deep fried cauliflower doughnuts, cauliflower sorbet

Dinner. Potage de choufleur, cauliflower fritters drizzled with a cauliflower jus, cauliflower and sherry trifle.

 

[Deleted member 478]

What concerns me is that you probably forget to teach them to speak the Queen's English. Will I be able to understand their slurred Scottish brogue when they offer me a quarter of an overdone FB pie?

 

[cliff]

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Will I be able to understand their slurred Scottish brogue when they offer me a quarter of an overdone FB pie?

[/ QUOTE ]Is it possible to over do a FB pie? I thought the longer one cooked them the better. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[jimi]

Apparently PAra does a mean fried FB with the brekkie bacon.

 

[Aja]

The good ship Claymore now boasts the most up-to-date-super-duper-all-singing-all-dancing AGA.

This should preclude the reliance on previous recipies including over-egged FBs and cauliflowers.

I have seen fresh ground coffee a la cafetierre being served, accompanied by fresh shortbread.

Claysie, go with the girlie suggestion.

Donald

 

[ccscott49]

C)

 

[temptress]

[ QUOTE ]
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C) Come clean and tell him that they are still a pair of useless beggars and wash my hands of the whole affair?

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Someone has to provide trained crew for the rest of us after all! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[silver-fox]

Sounds like a book on single handed sailing might be useful /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[ParaHandy]

I feel you should view this with a considerable degree of pride and satisfaction that all the years of training have delivered such capable crew. Whether it be green spinnakers, dealing with Tobermory harbour masters, anchoring, cauliflowers, the list is endless and if the RYA offered such a syllabus would result in a Master of the Master Mariner certificate.

There is more .. the dispositions of your fine boat provided expertise in the patio culture which will be needed not to protect oneself from the vicissitudes of a highland summer but the less inclement weather of the caribean.

and more .. the experience of maintaining your fine craft will be of great help. sadly, the bog fixer is not available for this trip which is a great shame as amongst all the wonderfully equipped bells and whistles of this fine craft which is about to cross the atlantic, a bucket might be the privy ... !!

 

[sarabande]

The other hand being engaged in operational risk management of the beer, presumably ?

 

[zefender]

I can understand you might be finding this latest news rather upsetting. However I would counsel that you play the long game on this one. Although your crew have acted en masse in such a disloyal and shameful way, I can be pretty sure that they will not remain quite so united for long. A month together in a confined space, even in a somewhat lardy sea-tandem can do terrible things to solidarity. You will probably find at the end of it all they will be begging to crew for you again. Their only condition will be that none of the others involved in this crack-brained venture will be joining at the same time. Thus, you will end up with plenty more of opportunities to sail and less need to worry about dividing the caullie into so many portions.

 

[claymore]

I would commence my response by stating that the quiet voice or reason is one seldom heard around here and that if it were not for your fine self, it would be heard even less.
Your words have given me heart and I shall heed them...the long game it is.

Would you be so good as to render me service by sitting on the virtual panel when the errant miscreants come crawling back - as they will - seeking reinstatement of their miserable names onto the Claymore Ships papers?

 

[zefender]

I would be honoured, Sir.

I feel the following might be useful briefing documents.

Prosecution papers

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Claysie
I have a tame lawyer who has experience of maritime litigation ( he t boned another boat racing in the solent and managed to convince them they were over tkaing on port). He would be happy to send threatening missives on your behalf to the poacher.
I feel there is an undoubted case for compensation. As long as you can remain firm and unflinching on the stand whilst describing this crew's true worth as prime seamen able to steer and hand and reef a vessel such as your own.
I foresee record payouts and not only that predict the scurvy dogs will return once they realise that cauli's and Fbs keep much better in their native climes and starve their passage away on hard tack.

 

[longjohnsadler]

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and miseries.

Least that's what Para said. It's all his fault - I never wanted to go. Sailing in the Caribbean sounds ghastly..