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SY - Sailing Yacht (Sloop), 18.3 m (60 ft), sail, catamaran, Fountaine Pajot Eleuthera 60

Availability ready now

Embark (Boarding)
ready now to embark anytime
Duration
preferably for at least 4 weeks and for any duration onwards
Disembark
flexible, no specific date

Locations

 Boarding location
Martinique - visible to Crew members only
Your boarding area is ? within this vessel's boarding location
and the Crew can come from anywhere to board the vessel
Your current location is around ? away from this location
 Destination planned to take the vessel next
flexible, to be decided
 My current location where I'm in person
Martinique - same as boarding location
 Home Port of Registry (registered vessel)
United Kingdom - England - visible to Premium Crew

Vessel

L5   native
speaking natively like a local without a noticeable foreign accent
L4   fluent
speaking fluently with an extensive vocabulary, but with a foreign accent
L3   competent
speaking competently with a solid vocabulary on almost any topic
L2   elementary
speaking enough to get by, but may get lost in a conversation
L1   learning
not speaking the language, but learned enough to say simple sentences
L0   not proficient
may know a few words, but cannot form sentences or ask questions
Languages spoken aboard
native English
competent French
Vessel type, make and model
SY Sailing Yacht (Sloop), Fountaine Pajot Eleuthera 60
Vessel year
2004 built, and most recent major refit completed in 2020
Vessel main propulsion
sail
Vessel hull type
catamaran
Vessel length
18.3 metres (60 ft)
Vessel weight (displacement)
18 tonnes (39,690 lb)
Crew & guests aboard
usually 1 person aboard
Journey
round the world, cruising: Offshore, cruising or passage: Atlantic

Crew

Team request
position for individuals only
Nationality of crew
anyone
Gender of crew
anyone
Age of crew
preferably under 60 years of age
Height of crew
any
Weight of crew
any

Lifestyle

Eating
Preferably crew with an unrestricted diet and aboard an unrestricted diet is preferred
Drinking
Anyone and aboard any or no drinking is fine
Smoking
Anyone and aboard any or no smoking is fine

Experience

Coastal/Ocean sea time
preferably crew with at least 1.8 months spent at sea
Coastal/Ocean sea miles
preferably crew with at least 1,000 nm logged

Position

Recreational    generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses

positions available
preferably for
 Competent Crew   any experience
 Cook   any experience
 Deckhand   any experience
unpaid
crew is not expecting to be paid

Dear Shipmates

Introduction

Big sailing catamaran. I often sail it solo (including across oceans) but it can be more fun to have others along. Maybe you?

I've skippered and crossed the Atlantic 17 times including 5 times on this boat, and around the world in 2012.

There’s good safety and not too much boat jargon on board. Left/Right is fine..

60-ft Fontaine Pajot Eleuthera is a comfy sociable boat, safe and plenty of room.

About the boat, the plans, and current crew

usually cleancomfortableimmaculatevery safevery spacioushave a holidayshare experiencevisit remote placesseek adventurefulfill a dreamfind a soulmate/partnerlive off the grid

I bought this slightly-older 2004 boat in 2017 - east to maintain, less complicated, easier to get spares, and fewer "black box" multifunctional programmable nightmares. It's smart and comfortable but not too precious.

It's a good ocean-going catamaran layout - gas cooking, galley-up (not downstairs in the hulls) with Yanmar motors and no iffy upper flybridge. New for 2023 is Starlink, so WiFi 24/7

Solar power with lithium batteries and watermaker means free water and free hot water. New alarm systems give lots of (loud) warning of rainstorms or ships/boats from many miles away.

In the Caribbean this is a regular "white sails" boat with beam winds giving +10knots between islands. If you're an experienced sailor, you'll know that's quite quick. If you aren't, well, yes, it does sound slow, what's the fuss about?

Current crew... just me at the moment.

I've sailed over 100,000nm, engineering background so i can quite often fix stuff, or work around it, or find someone else to fix or replace it.

What is expected of the crew

clean & tidycommittedeasy-goingenthusiasticfit & healthyfriendlyorganisedrespectfultrustworthyrarely/unlikely seasickgood communicatoreager to learn & workpolitepositive outlookopen mindedsense of humorready to partydon't mind cleaningcan follow orderswill not bring a friendwill not bring a petharmony

I'm looking for intelligent, flexible fun types with enough experience of being at sea to know that you don't much get seasick.

This is a gentle all-season trip through the Caribbean.

I'll show how everything works, as much as you like. If anything happens outside the boat or goes wrong on board you just tell/wake me, no issue. There are super-loud alarms that pick up other ships way before they’re visible.

3 cabins - two doubles and one quadruple, plus a big saloon/galley between. Vast, really, and big boats are safer boats.

Anything and everything on the boat that needs doing - we gotta do it. Fixing, cleaning stuff and so on. Or okay, I might find/pay/bribe someone else to do it if it’s properly broken.

“Easy going” means exactly that - you’re cool, regardless. All sorts of people might come on board, the planned destination might change, or anything - an “adventure” is unpredictable by definition. So if there’s anything in your bio marked STRICTLY this or MANDATORY that ... it means you aren’t truly “easy going”, doesn’t it? I saw one bio with “easy going unless provoked” (!) which really means “not easy going” ...

I try sail the boat quickly, but it's not a race. Unless we’re gaining on some other boat on the horizon of course, in which case- it’s a race! Unless we fall behind, and then it wasn't a race at all.

Oh and .. one issue that sometimes comes up: axes and especially axe-murdering activities are specifically NOT ALLOWED on board, so please don't bring any axes. Or guns, don't bring them either. Rap music is another no-no, not quite so lethal though.

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