I’m compelled to send you this quick text I received from a friend of ours who is a delivery skipper (a vastly underpaid job whereby the skipper takes on a huge responsibility to safely dispatch a vessel from one location to another). We’ll call him The Boat Stig. The Boat Stig was given the task of delivering a yacht from France to Turkey. That’s a bit of a boot, and this was a delivery skipper’s worst nightmare: the owner was on board.
“What a trip! The owner and his brother are mad! Owner lost plot & started screaming at me demanding that i take him on extended tour. That after yesterday when he said i was shit. Tried to kick me off the boat today until the agent told him he cant do that. He screwed up his face and started jumping up & down like a 5 year old. Am exhausted with everything. What a ***t!
Welcome to the world of The Boat Stig, professional sailor. A man daring enough to venture into the world of underpaid and overworked yacht deliveries. He doesn’t test drive cars, this man tests his own patience, dealing with sailing industry twonks on a daily basis.
We salute you!
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As a professional delivery skipper you should know not ever ever deliver a boat with the owner on board! Ex Del Sipper
Who is the Boat Stig? I think the Boat Stig is Ellen MacArthur on stilts and you’ve just photo-shopped out her knockers!
What a lethal combination, cannot think of anything worse than the proud owner(and his son) beathing down your neck when you are actually trying to sail 👿
Heh, sorta takes the shine off the idea of quitting everything to do that.
Hi both
Nothing to do with this article but if Liz wanted a few days of peace – how about Huntingfield. If it ties in with what I’m up to – can fetch her from the Furlongs.
Best wishes
A Chris
Actually, a five year old would probably prefer to hop, can you do that on a moving boat?
sounds like any normal husband and wife sailing team to me. What’s the problem? 😯