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since Jan 2025
last sign in 15 hours ago
Owner - always or often aboard
SV - Sailing Vessel, 12.2 m (40 ft), sail, monohull, Trintella

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viewed 460 times
since Jan 2025
last sign in 15 hours ago

Availability after 30 Apr 2025

Embark (Boarding)
preferably embarking anytime after the 30 Apr 2025
Duration
for any duration
Disembark
flexible, no specific date

Locations

 Boarding location
Francecrewscene.com - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - visible to Crew members only
Your boarding area is ? within this vessel's boarding location
and the Crew must be within 1,000 nm • 1,852 km • 1,151 mi
Your current location is around ? away from this location
 Destination planned to take the vessel next
Francecrewscene.com - Occitanie - visible to Crew members only
this destination is around 174 km from the boarding location
 My current location where I'm in person
Francecrewscene.com - same as boarding location
 Home Port of Registry (registered vessel)
Polandcrewscene.com - Zachodniopomorskie - visible to Premium Crew

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
fluent German
elementary French
Vessel type, make and model
SV Sailing Vessel, Trintella
Vessel year
1978 built, and most recent major refit completed in 2010
Vessel main propulsion
sail
Vessel hull type
monohull
Vessel length
12.2 metres (40 ft)
Vessel weight (displacement)
11 tonnes (24,255 lb)
Crew & guests aboard
usually 2 people aboard
Journey
day/weekend trips or cruising

Crew

Team request
position for individuals or teams
Nationality of crew
anyone
Gender of crew
anyone
Age of crew
preferably over 16 years of age
Height of crew
preferably no taller than 190 cm / 6' 3"
Weight of crew
any

Lifestyle

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

Experience

Coastal/Ocean sea time
preferably crew with at least 1.4 weeks spent at sea
Coastal/Ocean sea miles
none required

Position

Recreational    generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses

positions available
preferably for
 Crew   some experience
unpaid
crew is not expecting to be paid

Dear Shipmates

Introduction

Hello everyone, I'm a very uninteresting Brit ex-pat who has very little sailing experience (2 weeks in Portimâo, competent crew and day skipper practical) who has bought a beautiful Trintella IV ketch from 1978. My plan is to live aboard, which I am doing, so it's going well so far.
My first goal, after getting her in the water and not sinking, is to creep veeeery sloowly along the coasts of France and Spain until I get to Portugal. Where most probably I will creep very slowly along the Algarve coast. After that who knows.
I am more interested in sailing than actually arriving anywhere.

About the boat, the plans, and current crew

usually cleancomfortablelive on little moneyhave a holidayshare experience

Update 13.02.25: Finally got the engine tested after the service, purred like a kitten :-D. The generator eventually started and vomited oil and cooling water. I'm getting a quote :-( but as there seemed to be holes where none were designed to be, the solar panels are looking more urgent. The 24v LiFePO4 batteries have arrived for the bowthruster and windlass but the charger hasn't. Masts are still on, FR4 plates delivered to Switzerland by mistake, same for battery cables
Update 28.01.25: I have to take the masts off which makes my boarding date uncertain.
The boat is a Trintella IV. The photo above is this boat nearly 20 years ago. I'd love to take a new photo but I'm on the hard between two much bigger boats and you can't really see much of her.
She's a lovely, large centre cockpit, long keel ketch with two cabins, a salon and two heads. The berths at the moment have really hard foam cushions/matresses which encourages a healthy lifestyle ;-) no lounging in bed unless there's a chiropractor crewing with us. There's room for four to sleep in the aft cabin, if they're not too big and are really good friends.
There are two fixed VHF radios and one handheld on board. EPIRB, AIS transceiver, radar, 4 person liferaft and usual safety stuff is also here.
She's got a newish, professionally serviced 2025, 75hp Betamarine engine with 300 hours, a diesel generator and a Webasto diesel heater(currently in bits on the saloon table). She also has a bow thruster and an electric windlass.
There's a new Victron inverter with 5kW of LiFePO4 batteries and I'm looking at solar panels.
The galley is electric and gimballed with an induction hob and an old, but very effective, combi-oven microware thingy (which I might replace soon because I really miss my steamer). There's a small fridge as well. There's also a gas hob if the electricity runs out.
The plans are as above, sail slowly west.

What is expected of the crew

clean & tidyeasy-goingfit & healthyfriendlytrustworthyconfident swimmerrarely/unlikely seasickgood communicatortravel light (little luggage)eager to learn & workpolitepositive outlooksense of humorcan pay own expensesenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaningwill not bring a bicyclewill not bring a pet

People with lots of experience are welcome, though the passages I'm planning will be boring for you, unless you really enjoy watching people make mistakes or just love being on the water. People with less experience and strong nerves are also welcome because it'll be fun, we can learn together. If you're bringing a partner you'll have to provide a PFD for them as I only have two at the moment.
As for contributions, I will pay running costs, repairs (unless caused by malice), marina and fuel. If there is one crew person aboard then I'll pay for the food, within reason. If you only eat filet steak and caviar, I'll be happy to help you eat it (except for the caviar) but I'm not paying for it. If there are more crew we will divide the food costs fairly.

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