The fact that there’s a performance based profit share is a huge draw
Also, if I remember correctly, the crew votes on the captain prior to setting sail and there are mechanisms in place to replace the captain if they aren’t performing well enough.
I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were tough and though I tried, the money wasn’t there
'Til bankers came and took my land and told me “Fair is fair.”I looked for every kind of job, the answer always “no.”
“Hire you now?” they’d laugh and say, “We just let forty go.”
The government, it promised me a measly little sum
But I’ve got too much pride to end up just another bum.But I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone.
I’m gonna be a pirate on the river Saskatchewan!I don’t know the tune, but it works to Banned from Argo.
I know this is a shit post, but you really can voluteer to sail the world with the Nao Santa María,
https://www.fundacionnaovictoria.org/
I’ve been on it a while back, beautiful ship.
A bucket list item of mine is to go on a training ship. I was eyeing up this one https://sailtraininginternational.org/vessel/statsraad-lehmkuhl/.
Too bad you don’t get paid for it (in fact, you have to pay for it yourself).
Aaand bookmarked. 100% going on my list of stuff to do.
A [*squints*] ~20 gun frigate with a crew of only 30-50? That’s sounds like a startup nightmare. You’d probably want double that to be comfortable.
“Get in on the ground floor of our fast paced, dynamic environment! Must be self starter willing to work watch-on-watch for the team. No sick days.”
More rum for me.
“You know how you normally work dog watches, 4 hours on, 4 hours off? Yeah… Well half the crew quit.”
“As a result we’re redistributing their watches to the remaining crew from now on. As a result, you can rest when we’re in port”
That musical instrument list is a joke! No squeeze boxes? No woodwind? No percussion?
No hornpipe. I’m out
Calm down Horatio.
I mean you can stamp your feet for percussion in a shanty
Nice try IDF
If we have a right to choose the captain I’m sold.
consults wellerman lyrics
hard pass
While I love the joking in the comments section, I can’t help but feel a bit sad.
I’d give almost anything for another sea going posting.
No concertina? It’s like the piratey-est instrument!
The concertina has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary’s 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina
Huh neat.
Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.
Shiver me timbers. Me whole worldview be built on a lie.
Literally the only thing that would prevent me from saying yes is the lack of air conditioning.
I can not tolerate the heat, at all
You have to account for the sea breeze. It makes a big difference
Not below decks where you’ll most likely be sleeping (in close proximity to multiple other warm, sweaty, stinky sailors), I suspect.
Not enough for me.
edit
To Be clear, I have a medical intolerance to heat. Its not about comfort.
just dip in the water a bit
“hop in — the waters fine“
Honestly, rope blisters don’t seem as bad as what I’m working with rn.
I hate my job, but at least I don’t have all the scars in my body unheal and open up.
we have lemons onboard
life didn’t give us lemons
we made them ourselves
How do you even make the bass stay upright? Do you have to freeze it with its mouth open?
Easy mistake to make, but it’s not a sea bass, it’s; a C Bass (only has one string, tuned to C)
I sea now. Tuna fish!
