• Profile 63484
  • Registered: 01/11/2022
    Last seen: 11/09/2023
  • Shipmaster
  • Married 50 y.o. Non smoker
    Resident in: Castelveccana (VA) Italy
    Passport: Italy
  • Available for additional task(s) as:
    Sailing boat Skipper Captain Chief Engineer Rigger/toolmaker Charter Base Manager Shipwright
  • Uncertain availability
  • Fully Vaccinated against Covid-19
  • Expected salary: 4000-5000
  • Job Offers Received: 6
  • Speaking: Italian French English Spanish
  • Education: Master's Degree
  • Certificates of Competency:
    RYA Yachtmaster Ocean
  • IMO Courses / Qualifications
    STCW Basic Training (4 courses)
    G.M.D.S.S.
    Helm Operational
  • Registered in 1° category in UK as: Master
    12 months on Seaman's Book
  • Navigation experience: 15 years 10 months
  • Qualified for sailboats
  • Power/Sail Boats (unlimited) issued in: 2000
  • Additional info
  • Personal Notes
    I raced on winning monotype boats since I was a kid. I built my experience at sea with deliveries, teaching sailing and skippering charters. With many years of charter experience I was able to get larger boats assignments and larger crews. Lately, before covid I was working almost exclusively on catamarans up to 78 ft and 7 crew. This summer I have been skippering 18 weeks in Greece on Lagoon catamarans with outstanding customer satisfaction.
  • Competencies
    I am able to manage vessel crew budget and owner’s satisfaction in a excellent way keeping harmony up nevertheless the hard work.
  • Soft skills
    Good psychology, team worker, good in balancing the mood or solve team frictions on long term navigations
  • Organizational skills
    Achiever with good checklist attitude. I have excellent project management skills.
  • Technical skills
    Diesel engines, electrical, mechanical, hull and extraordinary maintenance on fiber, wood and metals
  • Sea experience
  • Period: 01/2023 - 04/2023
    Unit: 28 m
    Intended use, area: Caicco My Bubu
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Preliminary compromised structure check prior to refit.
  • Period: 08/2022 - 09/2022
    Unit: Lagoon 46/42
    Intended use, area: Greece Cyclades/Tessaronique
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation, troubleshooting, guests satisfaction
  • Period: 07/2022 - 08/2022
    Unit: Lagoon 450 sailing cat
    Intended use, area: Greece Ionian islands
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation crew and guests safety and satisfaction
  • Period: 06/2022 - 07/2022
    Unit: 52F lagoon sailing catamaran
    Intended use, area: Crewed charter Ionian Greece
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation, maintenance and one stewardess. Crewed cabin charter. American guests.
  • Period: 04/2022 - 05/2022
    Unit: 24 m caicco ketch rigged with 3 foresails
    Intended use, area: Tenerife to Portimao Delivery and maintenance in Las Palmas
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation maintenance and 3 crew
  • Period: 01/2022 - 02/2022
    Unit: 27 m racing sailing schooner
    Intended use, area: La Poste Tabarly
    Role held: Engineer
    Main Tasks: I made a new project for the rudder bearings historically made of aluminum prone to corrosion at sea
  • Period: 09/2020 - 12/2021
    Unit: Power boat / classic UK 1944 90 Ton 24 m
    Intended use, area: Commercial
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Charter Refit Agents
  • Period: 11/2019 - 03/2020
    Unit: Fontaine Pajot 50
    Intended use, area: Thailand Phuket
    Role held: Captain/fleet manager
    Main Tasks: Navigation, safety, Maintenance, captain’s leader of 30+ catamarans departing weekly
  • Period: 10/2018 - 11/2019
    Unit: Fontaine Pajot 46
    Intended use, area: Myanmar Mergui archipelago
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Kick off of the season, navigation and warnings updates for the fleet. Cabin charter for Intrepid Australia
  • Period: 04/2019 - 11/2019
    Unit: Ocean voyager 78, sailing catamaran
    Intended use, area: Phuket Thailand
    Role held: Captain/fleet leader
    Main Tasks: Delivery from Sri Lanka, after purchase non compliance management, launch on the market, guests satisfaction
  • Period: 11/2018 - 04/2019
    Unit: Derek Kelsall 68
    Intended use, area: Phuket Thailand
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Crewed charter, navigation, guests satisfaction +3 crew
  • Period: 05/2018 - 09/2018
    Unit: Cyclades 51
    Intended use, area: Sardinia-Corsica weekly charters
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation and 8 guests satisfaction. Cabin charter for Intrepid Australia
  • Period: 10/2017 - 04/2018
    Unit: Fontaine Pajot 46
    Intended use, area: Myanmar Mergui archipelago
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation, +3 crew. Cabin charter for Intrepid Australia
  • Period: 10/2017 - 02/2018
    Unit: Daedalus 21m sailing catamaran. Research vessel
    Intended use, area: Tirrenian sea Italy
    Role held: Mate
    Main Tasks: Navigation, sonars, stabilisers during dives, submarine navigation and launch
  • Period: 06/2017 - 09/2017
    Unit: X46
    Intended use, area: Malaga-Cadiz private charter
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation and guests satisfaction
  • Period: 04/2017 - 09/2017
    Unit: Bavaria 50
    Intended use, area: Amalfi Coast
    Role held: Captain
    Main Tasks: Navigation and 8 guests. Cabin charter for Intrepid Australia. Departure from Procida.
  • Period: 01/2010 - 01/2017
    Unit: Various boats from 25 to 50 ft
    Intended use, area: Sailing instructor for yachtmaster. Miles building programs around Baltic, North Sea, Atlantic, Med
    Role held: Instructor
    Main Tasks: Navigation, instruction, miles building. During the summer I was skippering sailing holidays around the Med and Gibraltar area
  • Period: 05/2006 - 12/2009
    Unit: One off custom built sailing and motorboats up to 39 ft
    Intended use, area: Launch, rigging and first performance check of all the produced boats
    Role held: Builder
    Main Tasks: I was developing the plan with the designer, lofting and fairing the lines, styling the planking layout, building the patterns, selecting the trees, cutting and preparing the planking and steaming the ribs, stringers and clamps.