I'm Looking for a Novice Crew position Sailing across the Pacific. And I'm offering helps as Canal Hand in Panama from March.
Hello I am Baban, i am Danish and i speak good English. I can help with software based systems since i am a programmer.
I'm interested in finding a position as crew crossing the rest of the Pacific from the Marquesas or somewhere near French Polynesia. I am currently in Nuku Hiva. I have no preferences regarding the end destination.
I am aware that this will not be a sunshine cruise and i want to make clear that i am happy to be crew instead of passenger. I am aware that the voyage entails more duties than tanning and i don’t mind standing watch at night, cleaning, cooking and ect. I have sailed 3800 NMi from Panama City to here. On that voyage i took care of the fresh produce and i maneged to take care of the fresh goods so well that we put the last of it in the fridge 30 days into the voyage.
I am looking for an authentic sailing experience and not a holiday cruise. I am fairly young, 28 years old and I am able to do hard physical labor for longer periods of time. I have recently spent a lot of time deep in the amazon doing hard physical work on rationed food, with no problems. I find it rewarding and i am looking forward to learning more about how to sail and maintain a ship.
Previous Experiance:
To Sweden from Denmark, in the summer of 2016. I did this mainly to test how i coped with the open sea and life in confined space on a ship. And I had an amazing experience. I didn’t get seasick on the whole trip.
My first sailing experiance is from Aarhus in Denmark to Götteborg, Skärgård in Sweden. It was on a 115 years old, 40 foot, wooden sailing ship named Karen of Hjarnø. The ship only had a tiller, and i found out pretty fast that i really liked steering the ship.
The captain, my good friend, also told me that i had a good feel for navigation.
We only used the engine for 6 hours, sailing out of Århus Bay, otherwise we sailed the rest of the trip by wind.
On my first leg of the Journey across the Pacific i sailed on Lungta a 78 ft ferro cement ketch this year. We sailed 3800 NMi without turning on the engine the whole way, not even when we raised the anker.
During the voyage i spend a lot of time learning old school rope work/art from my good crewmate David that has more than 50 years of experience.
So far i have learned and mastered:
Half Hitch, Cow Hitch, Clowe Hitch, Rolling Hitch, Prussik.
Bowline (the king of all knots) with or without a Yosemite finish, reef knot, figure of 8 knot, slippery figure of 8, 2,3,4,5 strand Mathew walker, standing 3 stranded Turkshead, running 3 and 5 strand Turskshead with as many bites as you could wish for.
Constrictor Knot, Whipping, Blind Whipping, Sailmakers Whipping.
Short Splice, Long Splice, Eye Splice, Tapered end on the splice, Hockle Splice.
3 Strand cockscombing, french Spiral hitch, Monkeys fist.
I am happy to share my knowledge on rope work and offer classes in this if you are interested.
I also have a diving certificate. I took my diving certificate in February 2016 in Denmark, where the water is 2 degrees and visibility was below 2 meters. So my idea was that taking it there under such conditions, you can dive anywhere in the world. Otherwise i have dived on the Caribbean coast of Colombia
I have experience with dry suit diving, freshwater diving, night diving and ship wreck diving.
EDUCATION
Århus University, Denmark — 2008 - 2014
I studied Computer Science with a minor in Bio Informatic. So i have a very high understanding of technical systems and can help out with those on the ship should it become necessary.
I have previously worked in academia on 3 research projects,
One where we tried to model how symbiosis between Bacteria and plants affect their evolution.
Another where we tried to study the rate of evolution (adaptation) of Bacteria, Plants, and arthropods, over 15 years, to see if the rate of adaptation could keep up with the rate of climate change.
The last one was in Molecular oncology, which is a fancy word for stem cell research in cancer. I worked on a project where they had a robot that could turn on/off genes in stem cells and then grow them, and then test what proteins it had affected the production of. Eventually the goal was to develop medicine that could turn fast spreading tumors into good non spreading tumors.
ABOUT ME
I am 28 years old. I am Kurdish from Iran, I was born in Iraq, and I have lived in Denmark since i was 5 years old. I am currently on a 2 year trip around the world. I started my Journey in Guyana in February 2017. So far i have visited, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil and Colombia.
For this journey around the world i had two main goals. First i wanted to cross South America on the Amazon river, from the atlantic coast to Colombia, i ended up sailing close to 6000 km on the hammock ferries that carry the locals around on the amazon river, which i did in the summer of 2017.
My second goal on this Journey is to sail across the Pacific, from South America / Central America, over Polynesia to Nz or Au..
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