Julian on May 31st, 2011

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 [...]

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Julian on May 18th, 2011

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 [...]

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Julian on May 18th, 2011

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 [...]

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Julian on May 18th, 2011

If you would like to experience life aboard a classic world cruising sailing yacht then come onboard Tropicbird. I will acknowledge all the sea miles you make with a written description and my signature. Or if you have a ‘Log Book’ I will sign that. Also night passages. These are particularly expensive to charter. Anyone [...]

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Julian on May 18th, 2011

The best sailing I have done was in Cuba. I chose to sail from Jamaica to Cienfueugo in Cuba which one is able to do inside a bunch of islands which protect the inner area from any sea swell. Thus the water is absolutely flat with the wind still blowing. At the time the wind [...]

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Julian on May 17th, 2011

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 [...]

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Julian on May 17th, 2011

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, [...]

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Julian on May 17th, 2011

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 [...]

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Julian on May 17th, 2011

Sailing the world is on offer to you. Tropicbird has taken me to six countries and through the waters of some others.  Since my eighteenth birthday on other boats and hitchhicking I have visited thirty-two or so countries. Tropicbird was built in South Africa and has sailed countries I have not been to yet. Indeed she [...]

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Julian on May 17th, 2011

Many times strangers to me and my boat ask ”Have you ever been in a bad storm” to which I answer in a bemused fashion, ”Can’t think that I have”. Is the measure of ones survival the severity of the weather? I think not. Perhaps staying awake for 36 hours single-handed in the Gulf of [...]

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