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since May 2024
last sign in 7 May 2025
Owner & Captain/Skipper - always or often aboard
SV - Sailing Vessel, 12.8 m (42 ft), sail, monohull, Tayana 42

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viewed 1,029 times
since May 2024
last sign in 7 May 2025

Availability ready now

Embark (Boarding)
ready now to embark anytime
Duration
preferably for at least 1 day and for less than 1 day
Disembark
flexible, no specific date

Locations

 Boarding location
Australiacrewscene.com - Queensland - visible to Crew members only
Your boarding area is ? within this vessel's boarding location
and the Crew must be within Australia
Your current location is around ? away from this location
 Destination planned to take the vessel next
Australia - same as boarding location
 My current location where I'm in person
Australiacrewscene.com - same as boarding location
 Home Port of Registry (registered vessel)
Australiacrewscene.com - Queensland - visible to Premium Crew

Itineraries

  • An itinerary is a route divided into legs showing the planned locations and dates of the main stopovers from the start (S) (initial departure) to the finish (F) (final arrival), which is the destination of the vessel's journey (also called voyage, trip, torn, or expedition).

Each leg has a departure and an arrival date and location. It may also have additional waypoints in between, which might be stopping points or course change points.

Accuracy of itineraries

Itineraries for vessels at sea are never precise! We use three accuracy levels for the planning status to avoid confusion about what is likely to happen or not:

  • Pending (not accurate) – initial idea, possibilities
  • Preliminary (kinda accurate) – changes may still apply
  • Planned (reasonably accurate) – this is what's meant to happen
Days vs Nights

The duration of an itinerary is counted in days (start to end date) and the leg in nights (departure to arrival date). That is because you may arrive on a Monday and leave on a Tuesday. Therefore, there can be confusion if you were there for one or two days, but it would strictly count as one night without any confusion.

Therefore, you would say you went on a 14-day holiday or trip (the itinerary) and spent 13 nights on all your legs combined, for example.

Planning vs Estimates

There is also an important distinction between planning (what's the intention) and estimating (what's calculated). A time of arrival is always an estimate as a calculation is required; that's why it is called ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival).

You can't plan to leave San Francisco and arrive in Hawaii 10 minutes later, regardless of how desperate your intention is. If you intend to arrive in Hawaii by a certain date and estimate 10 days for the journey, then you can plan to leave San Francisco 12 to 15 days before. Therefore, your departure date is planned (what's the intention), and the arrival is still an estimate (what's calculated based on season, winds, currents, and many other factors). Plans can change due to weather, government requirements, breakdowns, delays, etc.

Tips for planning an itinerary

The following tips are worth noting to manage your itinerary and maintain an excellent overview:

  1. Name your itinerary with a short and clear title, such as 2025 Antarctic Expedition or 2025 Italy Family Cruise, that is descriptive, easy to remember, and simple to refer to in conversations.
  2. You can set your itinerary's visibility to private while planning it, share it with only those you contact, or share it with anyone who views your profile.
  3. Next, add each leg of the significant stopovers by date and location.
  4. Then, keep updating each leg as required.

Be realistic and mindful when planning an itinerary. People will arrange their timing and life around it, taking time off work, booking flights, arranging accommodation, etc. It's crucial to let the crew know how accurate they can expect the itinerary to be.

Shake down cruises.


Pending (not accurate)
1 Leg
61 nm
0 days
S: Start2024 May 21 Tue
F: Finish2024 May 21 Tue
AU crewscene.comMooloolaba Sunshine Coast
Brought the boat mid May 2024. Currently planning shake down trips. Marine electricians most welcome!

Leg 1

61 nm0 nights
Completed
Depart 2024 May 21 Tue
Arrive 2024 May 21 Tue
AU crewscene.comMooloolaba Sunshine Coast6 Waypoints
End of Itinerary

Vessel

Languages spoken aboard
native
speaking natively like a local without a noticeable foreign accent
fluent
speaking fluently with an extensive vocabulary, but with a foreign accent
competent
speaking competently with a solid vocabulary on almost any topic
elementary
speaking enough to get by, but may get lost in a conversation
learning
not speaking the language, but learned enough to say simple sentences
not proficient
may know a few words, but cannot form sentences or ask questions
native English
Vessel type, make and model
SV Sailing Vessel, Tayana 42
Vessel year
1989 built , and no major refit completed in the last 15 years
Vessel main propulsion
sail
Vessel hull type
monohull
Vessel length
12.8 metres (42 ft)
Vessel weight (displacement)
13 tonnes (28,665 lb)
Crew & guests aboard
usually 1 person aboard
Journey
…other journey

Crew

Team request
position for individuals only
Nationality of crew
anyone
Gender of crew
anyone
Age of crew
preferably over 35 years of age
Height of crew
any
Weight of crew
any

Lifestyle

Eating
Preferably crew with an unrestricted diet and aboard any or no specific diet is fine
Drinking
Preferably non-drinkers and aboard any or no drinking is fine
Smoking
Anyone and  aboard there is strictly no smoking

Experience

Coastal/Ocean sea time
preferably crew with at least 1 day spent at sea
Coastal/Ocean sea miles
preferably crew with at least 10 nm logged

Position

Recreational    generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses

positions available
preferably for
 Watch-keeper   some experience
 Deckhand   some experience
unpaid
crew is not expecting to be paid
contribute
- visible to Free & Premium members only
crew to pay an agreed share towards some expenses

Dear Shipmates

Introduction

I'm 76 years old, married, straight. My partner does not want to sail at the moment.
Boat is 36 years old and maintenance items keep on popping up.
She's too big for me to manage by myself all the time.
Most of the equipment on board is now co-operative with a few recalcitrants.
If you're in Brisbane or nearby it would be a big help if you could say in your profile how far you would travel for a short trip. I'm on the Sunshine Coast.
As of 9 April 2025 the boat has been listed for sale.
That said the market appears very quiet so it could take some time to sell the boat.
At the moment I'm looking at short trips just to keep the boat operational and to sort out a few wrinkles so I'd prefer crew who are local to the Sunshine Coast.

About the boat, the plans, and current crew

usually cleancomfortable

Boat is older but solid. Engine/transmission is less than perfect. Sometimes it's messy inside.

What is expected of the crew

discreetorganisedtrustworthytravel light (little luggage)politecan pay own expensesenjoy cookingwill not bring a bicyclewill not bring a friendwill not bring a pet

I looking for crew who are less than 50nm from the boat or who don't mind a bit of a drive for a few hours on the boat.

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