This is an opportunity to crew a sailing boat. There is a need for crew aboard Tropicbird although handling her by myself is not a problem. ( I don’t have problems I have challenges). However whenever I enter a new port, anchorage, island, country or continent I am pleased that I have accepted other people [...]
I offer time aboard my boat, this is not a job offer and it is not work. Work on a sailing boat can be fun. After a while it does not feel like working at all. You could even call it a ‘Charter’ if you like. Although if you compare the cost of spending time on [...]
Please discuss directly with Julian the cost to share time aboard Tropicbird The cost will depend on many factors including sharing the cost of food and personal consumables (toilet paper, detergents etc) and diesel cost based on hours that it is necessary to run the engine; an hourly rate. If whilst making a passage there [...]
Adventure crew: Keil – what a guy, singer, musician, entertainer, nudist, ever enthusiastic to work and help. A guy who really did understand what life is all about (he agreed with my ideas anyway). My Colombian charter group: What a relief when others share the work-load as these young professionals did. For the first time [...]
I have a testimonial which says that I (Julian), likes things done his way. The writer agrees that since Tropicbird is my boat and my home that I should continue this way as my ‘right’, I make no apologies for the pun! once i quoted the need for the use of coasters on a boat, [...]
Tropicbird refurbishment Firstly let me introduce myself since the work done to TB in the last two years has been mine and you should have confidence in the quality. I started working on boats when I was sixteen years old, that is after growing up as helper to my dad who built boats as a [...]