Gap Year Opportunities

[david_e]

My daughter has just announced that she wants to take a gap year and wants to work on a boat.

She is good crew but I have no idea where to start looking for opportunities. Can anyone give me a start please /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Deleted member 478]

Get her to register on the Find a Crew website

 

[jimi]

Often being a checkout girl at Tesco's is a good place to start.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Uh oh.......

 

[david_e]

Re: Tesco

No Jimi, that's where they go when they have their (Psychology) degree. The gap year is constructive work /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jimi]

Re: Tesco

Bluidy 'ell .. you can't punctuate properly either! At least reading all the labels at the checkout counter at Tesco's would teach her where the parentheses should go!

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Re: Tesco

Listen... Psychologists dont do Tesco.....

 

[jimi]

Re: Tesco

But psychocyclists do!

 

[colvic987]

Try looking up a couple of large sailing schools/ flotilla holiday operators, you'll find them all in the back of the sailing mags, if you dont get them, then pop into wh smiths and browse through, but not on saturday morning, its bedlam, cant get to the top shelf, everyone else in front of me... (only joking)...

e.g. sunsail , the moorings, neilson etc etc....

she should find something which would take her fancy, good luck...

 

[landaftaf]

have you thought of the sta ?

 

[woody001]

she can come and work on my boat

 

[woody001]

she could bring all her girly friends as well......

 

[jimi]

How about her mother?

 

[david_e]

Thats not fair - you've met her mum!!

 

[KREW2]

can see a PM coming your way

 

[woody001]

no on the more serious side, I am looking for crew, would she be interested, 22 year old male over in southsea marina with this boat http://www.swedishlady.co.uk/gallery/, let me know.

jimi, it's ok mate, didn't you get any of your irish lasses then at the weekend, i thought you where hard, to windy for ya, now whos the poof!

 

[Sammo]

David

Try this link, I`m sure they will find her a place

Crewit International click here

Recommended.

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[snowleopard]

Try contacting the Jubilee Sailing Trust who operate two barques for physically handicapped crew. They have opportunities for youngsters as bosun's mates - unpaid but all found.

I think the chances of making any significant money in the boating world without good qualifications are slim. There are thousands of kids out there who want to get afloat and potential employers have to beat them off with a stick.

 

[landaftaf]

I am sure you are not a cad, but how would you like to be viewed ?
maybe changing your piccy to something more reassuring might allay fears from concerned prospective mother and father in laws ....
any suggestions ? - e.g. a flyfisherman wearing a kilt ?

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[woody001]

should i change mine to a topless pic to impress em'