s/v Czarny Diament


May 2005 – December 2005


Boat: 54’ steel charter ketch Czarny Diament
Functions: 1st Mate/Bosun
Areas: the Mediterranean Sea


Duties included:
- Allocating crew to watches and crew work organization
- Crew training on safety on the sea and yacht equipment service
- Handling formalities with the port authorities – immigration office, office harbour
- Helming
- Navigation keeping
- Logbook keeping
- Supervision over technical efficiency, current repairs
- Interior and exterior cleaning


Yacht preparation to the charter season:
- Charters promotion in Internet
- Removing paint/varnish coats and applying new ones
- Yacht installation and equipment repair
- Miscellaneous boatswain tasks
- Sails repair
- Wood-PVC- and metal processing
- Supervision over technical efficiency during season
- Current repairs


Yacht preparation to the winter season:
- Cleaning and anti-corrosion protection of the hull
- Cleaning and painting the bilges
- Replacement of steel elements in the hull – cutting, welding
- Underwater works