Hi Alex, very good interview with George , I myself as a yatch owner i absolutely agree for all of the protocol mentioned even to our personal guests .
I skipper yacht sailing day-trips and there were some good points to think about, especially about managing expectations on what they should expect. Thank you!
Amazing information guys. I am not a professional skipper but recently I bought my own boat and I struggled a lot in the beginning with the friends that were coming along. I have a 28 foot sailboat with tiller steering. It's amazing sailing with 2 people, fine sailing with 4, and barely doable sailing with 5. Never went over that. The tiller steering means that when navigating inside the port, the sharp turns don't allow people to sit down on the back of the cockpit because of the radius of the tiller. But that's the least of the problems. When I started having friends over I did a few mistakes that I wanna share in case they help someone. 1. Its my first boat, so even I didn't have experience docking it and leaving the port with different wind conditions. If I could go back, I would do a few sailing day trips alone or with just one extra sailing person, to familiarize myself with the boat and build confidence docking/leaving port. Up to the point where I can single-handed do the docking/sailing. That would give me confidence when "skippering" with friends and radiate this confidence towards them that their skipper knows what he's doing. 2. Some of my friends wanted to learn about sailing and some came with a bag of beers and that was their main concern for the day. I did the mistake in the beginning to ask "if you don't wanna be involved in sailing just say so and I will not assign you anything". Then it happened that we were four people and we got hit by a squall and the only person that could help was the one that said I don't wanna be involved. So my rule now is everyone should know how to steer the boat (at the very least). I would be interested to see a video of an example briefing!
Nice comment! Everyone is potentially crew in every boat regardless of the type. Even to the big cruise 🚢 they do drills for emergency situations so you are able at least to help yourself.
lagoon 500 is not a big catamaran is a medium one. In the charter industry the 50s barely enter the crewed category. Also catamarans are easier to handle than monohulls in rough weather like the Aegean Meltemi wind, hence I don't understand why this captain is so special. Biased interview in my opinion
Hi Alex, very good interview with George , I myself as a yatch owner i absolutely agree for all of the protocol mentioned even to our personal guests .
Having friends on board it's sometimes more tricky and following a standard protocol makes your life so much easier 😎
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I skipper yacht sailing day-trips and there were some good points to think about, especially about managing expectations on what they should expect. Thank you!
Amazing information guys. I am not a professional skipper but recently I bought my own boat and I struggled a lot in the beginning with the friends that were coming along. I have a 28 foot sailboat with tiller steering. It's amazing sailing with 2 people, fine sailing with 4, and barely doable sailing with 5. Never went over that. The tiller steering means that when navigating inside the port, the sharp turns don't allow people to sit down on the back of the cockpit because of the radius of the tiller. But that's the least of the problems.
When I started having friends over I did a few mistakes that I wanna share in case they help someone.
1. Its my first boat, so even I didn't have experience docking it and leaving the port with different wind conditions. If I could go back, I would do a few sailing day trips alone or with just one extra sailing person, to familiarize myself with the boat and build confidence docking/leaving port. Up to the point where I can single-handed do the docking/sailing. That would give me confidence when "skippering" with friends and radiate this confidence towards them that their skipper knows what he's doing.
2. Some of my friends wanted to learn about sailing and some came with a bag of beers and that was their main concern for the day. I did the mistake in the beginning to ask "if you don't wanna be involved in sailing just say so and I will not assign you anything". Then it happened that we were four people and we got hit by a squall and the only person that could help was the one that said I don't wanna be involved. So my rule now is everyone should know how to steer the boat (at the very least).
I would be interested to see a video of an example briefing!
Nice comment!
Everyone is potentially crew in every boat regardless of the type. Even to the big cruise 🚢 they do drills for emergency situations so you are able at least to help yourself.
A lovely explaination of how it is from the other side of holiday sailing. Hope to sail the greek islands 2025.
lagoon 500 is not a big catamaran is a medium one. In the charter industry the 50s barely enter the crewed category. Also catamarans are easier to handle than monohulls in rough weather like the Aegean Meltemi wind, hence I don't understand why this captain is so special. Biased interview in my opinion
Someone missed the whole point 😉