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  • Arvi55

    • 60, Estonian
    • Estonia
    • Checked in 19 hours ago

Looking for sailing

Hi I'm interested in finding skipper, mate or engineer position for short periods like a week(s) or in special cases upto months or a season. Rotational arrangements for permanent position fits too. I have an experience of abt 40y 30-80ft monohulls and catamarans, sail and powerboats. Licensed first abt 35y ago, nowdays holding RYA/MCA YM Offshore sail and power, commercially and STCW endorsed to Master of yachts upto 200GT. I am not pro and never made sailing business my basic income, though did it quite often in past and are happy to team up with deliveries and/or skipper job in future also. Can complete my own crew with experienced skippers and mate enthusiasts if needed for delivery service or rotational setup. Also able to complete crew for full service with deckhand and/or chef/stew.
My land profession is power engineer and I am employer. Hobbies sport (skimarathons) and gardening. Generally happy person, easy to get along. Daywork and life in Tallinn and Riga.

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About me

  • Availability Available now

  • LocationEstonia

  • NationalityEstonian

  • Age60

  • GenderMale

  • Fluent languagesFinnish, Estonian, English, Russian

  • SmokerNo

  • Visible tattoosNo

  • VISAs B1 / B2 visa (or American citizenship)

  • Sea miles10,000+

  • Required position Captain/Engineer
    1st Mate
    Delivery Crew

  • Expected arrangement Professional

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Experience log

42

    • Date: 1st October 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skipper catamaran Bali 5.4 Soronic, Argolic Bays

    • Date: 1st September 2024

      Duration: 15 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Lagoon 46, Split to Dubrovnik

    • Date: 1st September 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran FP MY5 in Split area

    • Date: 1st August 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Bali 4.6 Cannigione, Costa Smeralda

    • Date: 1st August 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Lagoon 46, Lefkada, Kefalonia

    • Date: 1st July 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Leopard 45 Lefkada, Kefalonia

    • Date: 1st May 2024

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Dufour 48 in Gulf of Napoli and Gulf of Salerno

    • Date: 1st April 2024

      Duration: 6 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st October 2023

      Duration: 3 days

      Experience Type: Delivery

    • Catamaran Lagoon Sixty5 Bordeaux to A Coruna

    • Date: 1st August 2023

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Dufour 48 Costa Smeralda

    • Date: 1st August 2023

      Duration: 15 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper catamaran Leopard 42 Costa Smeralda

    • Date: 1st July 2023

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper Sun Odyssey 490 Split area

    • Date: 1st May 2023

      Duration: 6 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st September 2022

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skipper Lagoon 52 Athens to Milos

    • Date: 1st August 2022

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper of Lagoon 42 in Palermo to Aeolian Islands

    • Date: 1st July 2022

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper of 60ft custom steel motoryacht in channels, rivers, lakes of Saimaa, Finland

    • Date: 1st July 2022

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper of Saona 47 in Mallorca

    • Date: 1st June 2022

      Duration: 8 days

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper of Saona 47 in Mallorca

    • Date: 1st May 2022

      Duration: 6 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st April 2022

      Duration: 3 days

      Experience Type: Delivery

    • Skipper of Contessa 27 Turku-Tallinn

    • Date: 1st May 2021

      Duration: 6 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st May 2021

      Duration: 4 months

      Experience Type: Professional

    • Skipper of Sunseeker Manhattan 60. Leisure boat two month in Croatia and slow delivery through Montenegro, Greece, South Italy, Sicily, Napoli, La Specia, Coate d Azure to Barcelona.

    • Date: 1st April 2021

      Duration: 5 days

      Experience Type: Research

    • RYA YM Offshore conversion sail to power Barcelona Jeanneau Prestige 32

    • Date: 1st April 2021

      Duration: 2 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st February 2021

      Duration: 13 days

      Experience Type: Research

    • RYA YM Offshore sail prep week and practical exam in Tenerife Canary Sail Bavaria 36

    • Date: 1st July 2020

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering FP Saba50 in Soronic/Argolic bays

    • Date: 1st May 2020

      Duration: 6 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 40-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st February 2020

      Duration: 22 days

      Experience Type: Delivery

    • Lagoon 42 from La Rochelle to Athens

    • Date: 1st September 2019

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering new Lagoon 50 in Cyclades

    • Date: 1st July 2019

      Duration: 5 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering Dufour 405 in Turku Archipelago

    • Date: 1st June 2019

      Duration: 4 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper for day/week charters in Finnish Gulf and archipelago 30-70ft sail&motor monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st June 2019

      Duration: 5 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering Antares 30 Fly in Dalmatian Islands

    • Date: 1st May 2019

      Duration: 21 days

      Experience Type: Delivery

    • Lagoon 630 MY from Bordeaux to Split

    • Date: 1st April 2019

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering 15m Vision 3SL trip by Canal du Midi

    • Date: 1st March 2019

      Duration: 4 days

      Experience Type: Delivery

    • Ipanema 58 from La Rochelle to Cascais

    • Date: 1st September 2018

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Greece Soronic-Argolic skippering Leopard 514PC

    • Date: 1st July 2018

      Duration: 2 months

      Experience Type: Charter work

    • Skipper/mate for daycharter in Finnish Gulf. 30-53ft monohulls and cats www.sailing.ee

    • Date: 1st April 2018

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering Lagoon 421 in Malta

    • Date: 1st September 2017

      Duration: 7 days

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Skippering Lagoon 42 in Greece Soronics

    • Date: 1st January 1999

      Duration: 16 years

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Various boats and waters. Mostly Baltic Sea

    • Date: 1st January 1994

      Duration: 5 years

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Racing/leisure skipper on my own 27feet IOR racer Riga Gulf

    • Date: 1st January 1989

      Duration: 5 years

      Experience Type: Recreational

    • Racing/leisure skipper on my own 27feet IOR racer Finnish Gulf

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Qualifications

9

  • Jan 1989 Boat Operator Licence Complete

  • Jan 1990 Boatmaster Complete

  • Apr 2005 ICC Power/Sail Complete

  • Oct 2017 Short Range VHF / GMDSS Complete

  • Oct 2024 STCW2010 Compliant Complete

  • Oct 2019 STCW Maritime Security Awareness Complete

  • Mar 2021 RYA Yachtmaster Complete

  • Feb 2025 ENG1 cert. Complete

  • Feb 2021 RYA Professional Practices and Responsibilities ( PPR ) Complete

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Skills

  • Microsoft office
  • Route planning
  • Line handling
  • Filing & Fairing
  • Watch-keeping
  • Whipping and splicing
  • Sail repairs
  • Rig maintenance/Set-up
  • Fore and aft trimming
  • Rigging
  • Radio Operator
  • Weather planning
  • Navigation
  • Helmsmen
  • Crane Operation
  • Diesel engine repair
  • Welder
  • Fiberglass Repair
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Plumbing and Heating
  • General building
  • Cleaning
  • Managerial Skills
  • Tender driving
  • Windsurfing
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Teaching
  • Carpentary
  • Varnishing
  • Polishing
  • Marine First Aid
  • IT Literate
  • Drone pilot
  • Canyoning
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Q&A

7

Q: What’s your favourite boating experience? Clean and beautiful boat, great weather, good company

Q: How long have you been boating and what made you start? Cant remember. Been licensed since 1989. Grew up at sea.

Q: Where’s your favourite boating destination? Cant say. Probably seas with longer length swell, warm and then again really cold. Authentic places with friendly local people.

Q: What is your favourite boat and why? The boat where me and my crew feels comfortable in every point of seaworthiness. Can be lazy monohull or big cat or fast racer, etc. doesnt matter really. Can be team of adventure hungry guys or laizy sunseeking family excursion. Purpose sanction the ways...

Q: Gin and Tonic in a beautiful anchorage or trimming the sails to get an extra half knot? Definitely both

Q: What are your sailing ambitions? What’s the next challenge? Just try everything. Different boats, different seas.

Q: What is the longest passage you’ve completed without stops? Not much. Think, ca 1300nm

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I sailed La Rochelle to Athens with Arvi, he is great company and very experienced i would be happy to sail again with this man .

27th Mar 2020

sailingpaul

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