Sad news - Jubilee Sailing Trust

[fisherman]

Main and topsails are stowed by crew on the yards, above that roll into the yards. (On Nelson)
Six 'wheelies' maximum, out of forty passage crew, plus other disabilities, as above.

 

[ylop]

I'm kind of stunned at a charity with running costs at £1.8mil/year. How many service users do they manage to accommodate per year?

I'm stunned that you think that is unusual. They had (at last count) 13 staff. 300+ volunteers. A hugely expensive boat.

The year before covid they took 1600 crew including 653 disabled people on a total of 59 voyages. I think that included SOME Lord Nelson stuff during the period. So you are probably looking at an operating cost of the vessel of about £1000 pppw. + organsational overheads.

 

[Minerva]

So circa 3k per disabled person? Or do the volunteers/crew pay towards costs too? That feels, on the face of it a very expensive operation.

 

[fisherman]

In 2001 the daily rate for passage crew was about £120. BMs, and sometimes watch leaders had concessionary rates at times, esp if there was difficulty filling the ship. No idea what disabled folk paid. On top was the charter flights to and fro, there was at the time a travel agent that specialised in shifting crew for all the ships, one lot out, last lot back, same plane. That was £120 from Aalesund.