Sunsail Flotilla

[Sans Bateau]

I thoroughly recommend Sunscape and Seafarer lead crews. They are brilliant!

On the contrary, sounds like Sunsail provide far more entertainment.

 

[samwise]

Nothing to do with flotilla, I saw a yacht approaching a quay and they were evidently pleased to see someone preparing to take their lines. I was standing behind this chap and wondered how to signal to them that he was utterly drunk and they should not trust him at all!


Mike.

Sounds like the guy who offered to take our lines when we arrived in Barhoft (Baltic) this season. Totally plastered but he did catch the line then spent a while ruminating about what to do with it. Luckily a sober bystander took over the job. Our man was still out of it the following morning and struggling to stay vertical.

 

[marklucas]

It's always the vociferous ones ....

Many tides ago, my wife and bareboated in the Dodecanese.

We were moored up in Pandelli on Leros (yes real side to with rafting!) and were having breakfast one morning in the Savannah bar - a must if you ever go there.

Suddenly the hostie from the Sunsail flotilla came running in asking if anyone could move a boat. The lead boat had gone off to sort out a problem on another boat and a 45' yacht was blocking an non-Sunsail boat from leaving.

Muggins puts his hand up and goes back with the hostie. It turns out this couple had complained so much about the late arrival of their outbound flight that they were upgraded from a 32' to a 45' - quite a jump - and they were dinghy sailors who had never sailed in a yacht. They didn't know what prop kick was! They had only got to Pandelli as a Sunsail skipper came up with them to do a crew change.

I had to have a word with the lead skipper when he got back - but as ever there was little he could do.

 

[toad]

My daughter is a hostess on a flotilla in the Greek isles, they are always the last to leave then motor hard for the next port to see the clients in.She is first up in the morning and last to bed,on turn around day its off to the airport to meet the new clients. She has half a day off every two weeks if there are no problems.
she shares a 32 foot boat with the other two crew and all the spares needed to keep ten boats going.
For this she is paid E150 a week, why does she do it, at 22 years old it beats 9 to 5 in the UK.

 

[prv]

she shares a 32 foot boat with the other two crew and all the spares needed to keep ten boats going.

...and once a week, unless things have changed in the last decade or so, with all the sole boards stored on deck and ten boats' worth of food in a heap of ice filling the whole bottom of the cabin.

Pete

 

[Supine Being]

My daughter is a hostess on a flotilla in the Greek isles, they are always the last to leave then motor hard for the next port to see the clients in.She is first up in the morning and last to bed,on turn around day its off to the airport to meet the new clients. She has half a day off every two weeks if there are no problems.
she shares a 32 foot boat with the other two crew and all the spares needed to keep ten boats going.
For this she is paid E150 a week, why does she do it, at 22 years old it beats 9 to 5 in the UK.

Well if nothing else, she'll learn how to get along with people. As if the punters aren't enough, living in that space, in that heat, with a skipper and an engo whose idea of hygiene is a couple of sprays of 'shower in a can' should qualify her as a mediator at the UN.

 

[jhr]

Well if nothing else, she'll learn how to get along with people. As if the punters aren't enough, living in that space, in that heat, with a skipper and an engo whose idea of hygiene is a couple of sprays of 'shower in a can' should qualify her as a mediator at the UN.

We were on a flotilla about three years ago, and the Engineer was Andrew Brook - who is now the Geoff Pack Scholar at YM (I have some highly amusing photos of him somewhere, and will withold them if he'd like to get his wallet out).

Actually, I think he probably took personal hygiene quite seriously, but that didn't stop the Stewie pushing him into the harbour at Glossa

He never seemed to have much engineering to do, but a lot of things suddenly seemed to need fixing on a big Bav when a family including a yummy mummy and two gorgeous teenaged daughters took her over.....

 

[Supine Being]

He never seemed to have much engineering to do, but a lot of things suddenly seemed to need fixing on a big Bav when a family including a yummy mummy and two gorgeous teenaged daughters took her over.....

Ah well who can blame him looking for an upside when the downside consists of unblocking the heads for other people!

 

[Neil]

I did my first flotilla this summer, and the lead crew was fairly relaxed. In a conversation, the guy said that they were looking to buy their own boat because after years of flotilla-ing they were sick of young, snotty-nosed lead crew, who knew less than they'd forgotten over the years, telling them they had to be in port by 2.30 pm, to allow them to get plenty of drinking in. As a result of this conversation with a charter company, they were offered a job at that same boat show. Are there any charter companies like that anymore? I would imagine they'd be out of business by now.

For my own part, I learned a lot. First time on a boat like that since my DS week. Not used to things like winches, my little gaffer doesn't have any. Got in a bit of flap once and wrapped the rope anti-clockwise round the winch....Scratched my head long enough wondering how I'd managed to make the winch go round the wrong way........

Was a little apprehensive about stern-to mooring, but the boat went backwards like a dream - no noticeable prop-wash effect and steered in reverse where you pointed it...., unlike my long-keeled little gaffer.