• Profile 71658
  • Registered: 07/07/2024
    Last seen: 04/20/2025
Current references:
  • Referees Owner
    season 2024
    unit s/y AQUILA, Lagoon 40, 12 mt. sail catamaran
  • Referees Owner
    season 2021
    unit s/y ALFA MIKE, Impala 41, 12,5 mt. sailing yacht

Private Boat Driver
Sailing boat Skipper Deck Cadet Charter Base Manager Ship Surveyor Harbour Master
Available from 04/18/2025
Job offers received: 0
Citizenship: Italy
Salary € Not declared
Personal data
Married 60 years, Non-smoker
Resident in: Sanremo (IM) Italy
Sea experience
13 years
Seaman's book
1° category
Imperia
Officer Cadet
References
approved: 2
Certificates of Competency
Education, languages
Master's Degree
Italian English French
IMO Courses / Certifications
STCW Basic Training (4 courses)
PDSD (Security Duties)
Boat license
Sailing Boat (unlimited) (1984)
Qualified for sailboats

Experience 13 years

  • Period: 09/2024 - 09/2024
    Unit: s/y AQUILA, Lagoon 40, 12 mt. sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia, Italy
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, system management, guest safety and comfort.
  • Period: 08/2024 - 09/2024
    Unit: s/y GRINGOTT, Dufour 530 sail yacht
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia and South Corsica
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation and yacht conduct
  • Period: 08/2024 - 08/2024
    Unit: s/y ADEIA II, Lagoon 560, 17 mt. sail cstamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, management & maintenance of her systems
  • Period: 08/2024 - 08/2024
    Unit: s/y GRAMPUS, BALI 4.6 sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, conduct of the yacht, of its 5.3 mt Chase boat suith a 40 HP outboard engine, and of the management of a SeaBob and of an eFoil.
  • Period: 08/2024 - 08/2024
    Unit: s/y ZIPHIUS, BALI 4.2 sail catamarans
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation and yacht conduct.
  • Period: 07/2024 - 07/2024
    Unit: s/y DELPHINUS, 14 my. sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation and yacht conduct
  • Period: 07/2023 - 08/2023
    Unit: s/y JULIA, Nautitech 46, 14 mt. sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North & North East Sardinia
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 08/2023 - 08/2023
    Unit: s/y SBRONZO, Lagoon 46, 14 mt. sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia and South Corsica
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 08/2023 - 08/2023
    Unit: s/y GELMAR, Nautitech 46 sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia and South Corsica
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 06/2023 - 07/2023
    Unit: m/y MISS DC, Axopar 37 ST, with 2x350 HP outboard engines
    Use, area: Day charters in Malta departing from Portomaso Marina
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 07/2023 - 07/2023
    Unit: s/y MORISIA, Dufour 560, 27 m. sail yacht
    Use, area: Charter in North Sardinia and South Corsica
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 07/2023 - 07/2023
    Unit: s/y PADIRAC, Beneteau 50, 15 mt. sail yacht
    Use, area: Private cruise in North East and North Dardinia, Italy.
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 07/2023 - 07/2023
    Unit: m/y TEMPEST 900, 9 mt. Capelli RIB with 350 HP engine
    Use, area: Day charters in SW Corsica, Frsnce
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort.
  • Period: 08/2022 - 09/2022
    Unit: s/y OBELIX, Lagoon 39, 12 mt. sail catamaran
    Use, area: Charters in North Sardinia and South Corsica; delivering the boat back to Menton, France
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation, yacht conduct, passengers’ safety and comfort and entertainment.
  • Period: 05/2022 - 05/2022
    Unit: m/y Avon RIB, 6 mt. RIB with 60 HP o.b. engine
    Use, area: Chasing PAUL & SHARK M32 racing sail catamaran
    Role held: Chase Boat driver
    Main Tasks: Chasing an M32 racing sail catamarans during the M32 European championship in Sanremo, Italy
  • Period: 09/2021 - 04/2022
    Unit: s/y VELA X1, Nytech 23, one design, 7 mt. sail boat
    Use, area: Participating to the West Liguria Winter Championship and to to the Grimaldi Trophy regatta, finishing 3rd
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Captain and helmsman
  • Period: 02/2021 - 09/2021
    Unit: s/y ALFA MIKE, Impala 41, 12,5 mt. sailing yacht
    Use, area: Private yacht, cruises from Sanremo to Cote d’Azur and to Ponza
    Role held: Captain and Refit manager
    Main Tasks: Refit Manager, yacht manager and Captain
  • Period: 05/2014 - 09/2020
    Unit: s/y CHANDLER, Beneteau 43, sail yacht
    Use, area: Private cruises in Greece
    Role held: Chief Officer
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation during an average of 6 weeks per season of cruising in Greece.
  • Period: 08/2018 - 08/2018
    Unit: s/y ALCASAR, ELAN Impression 494, 15 mt. sail sloop
    Use, area: Private, delivery from Trani, Pilia, Italy, to Trieste, Italy. Participating to Barcolana regatta.
    Role held: Chief Officer
    Main Tasks: In charge of navigation during the delivery, tactician and fore sails trailer during the regatta.
  • Period: 05/2013 - 06/2013
    Unit: s/y ALCASAR, ELAN 494 Impression, 15 mt. sail sloop
    Use, area: Delivering the yacht from Grado, near Trieste, to Sanremo, rounding the Italian peninsula.
    Role held: Chief officer
    Main Tasks: Responsible for navigation and participating to deck watches and shifts.
  • Period: 09/2012 - 09/2012
    Unit: s/y TUIGA 1909, veteran sail yacht
    Use, area: Veteran sail yacht, Monaco, and West Liguria
    Role held: Deckhand
    Main Tasks: Participating to training sorties and to Vele d’Epoca in Imperia, veteran yacht’s regatta.
  • Period: 03/2006 - 10/2009
    Unit: s/y SPIRIT of GLR, Hanse 531 Carbon Mast, 16 mt. cruiser racer
    Use, area: Sailing in West Liguria, South of France, Corsica and North East Sardinia
    Role held: Captain and yacht manager
    Main Tasks: Responsible of navigation and yacht management.
  • Period: 07/2004 - 07/2007
    Unit: s/y ELISETTE, Melges 24, 7.2 mt. racing one-design sailboat
    Use, area: Sanremo, West Liguria, NE Sardinia
    Role held: Captain, helmsman and boat manager
    Main Tasks: Helmsman & boat manager
  • Period: 03/1997 - 12/2005
    Unit: s/y TANGA ONE, Morgante 45, 13.65 mt cruiser-racer sailboat
    Use, area: Private yacht used for cruises and iregattas
    Role held: Captain and boat manager
    Main Tasks: Boat manager and Captain

Skills and abilities

  • I am an Italian male, born on 15 June 1964, 1,90 mt. tall, non-smoker, no tattoos, holding an Italian Captain license authorizing me to act as Captain aboard offshore sail-yachts and motor-yachts up to 200GT (Corresponding to the RYA YM Offshore with commercial endorsement) and as Officer or Chief Mate aboard sail-yachts and motor-yachts up to 500 GT, of with over 39 years of uninterrupted experience, an Italian merchant navy navigation logbook, valid biennial medical certificate (ENG1), and IMO-SCTW basic certificates plus Security Duties. I have more than 4 decades of uninterrupted sailing experience, including charters along the entire North coast of the Mediterranean Sea, NW Malaysia and SW Thailand, also aboard charter catamarans sailing between Corsica and Sardinia. I have also significant experience in charters and in driving a large variety of motor yachts, high performance tenders, chase boats, including performance tenders and motor yachts with IPS and jet propulsion. I am a long-time diver with excellent skin-diving capabilities and a scuba diver holding a PADI Advanced Open Water certificate issued in 1996. I am a native Italian speaker and I can also speak and write fluent English and French. I have a significant experience in in looking after, managing and maintaining a yacht, with a good grasp of yachting law and I am familiar with administrative, operational and management practices related to the ownership, operation and maintenance of yachts, boats and water toys. I am a cheerful, polite, discreet, dynamic, proactive respectful and with a tidy appearance. I am well educated person, always ready and happy to help and service and a clear communicator. I am an enthusiastic character, a responsible and tireless worker, a friendly, easy-going personality and a motivator who loves sharing my passion for sailing and life at sea. I am very familiar with the use of electronic navigation instruments and systems of the major brands and of devices as chart plotters, AIS, radars, echo-sounders, autopilots, VHS, GMDSS, etc. I have a reinforced Super Green Pass with 3 doses of vaccine and have always been negative for COVID-19. I am a holder of a DVLA issued driving license in categories A, B and B1 and a holder of a valid Italian (Schengen) biometric passport. I am currently based in San Remo on the Italian riviera but I am willing and ready to relocate and/or to commute wherever required. I am available for being interviewed either in person or via videoconference at your earliest convenience. For more detailed information about my yachting experience please make reference to my the attached Yachting CV and relevant documents. I thank you for your time and attention and I remain Yours, sincerely Raffaele Rossi Patriarca