Lets say I captain a tall ship and am looking for crew. Would you join?

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Tivogal

sure,
sounds like a grand adventure.

when do you sail?

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Lew

People pay for their passage and I have heard of people working to pay their passage but I have never heard of people paying to work their passage.
If I understand your concept correctly, you want your crew to work 8 hour watches, presumably 7 days a week and pay you $250 a week for the privilege.
I wonder if I could open a factory in the UK using the same concept.
Thanks but no thanks.

Serapis

This is a good joke that got some people going, but I'll point out the holes. Even the least-qualified professional sailors work for around $40,000 a year, not -$12,000 as you describe. You would not be able to attract anyone who knows how to sail and if you could even crew the ship it would be full of useless loafers who have no idea what they're doing. Writers and businessmen hauling on lines and chipping and painting, come on. You cannot get Wi-fi out at sea, you need professional satellite equipment. People will not work the shifts you set up, eight hours at a time. The typical watchstander will stand four hours followed by eight hours off. You cannot just decide to anchor wherever you are at 2200, anchoring is a delicate process and even the largest cargo ships can't anchor in much more than 100 feet. Plus, to "weigh anchor" means to haul it up for departure, so I know that you have no idea what you're talking about and probably are just regurgitating some nautical terminology you saw in Master & Commander. Not to mention the regulatory requirements, you'd have to register the vessel in some god-forsaken place like Liberia, and hope they never inspect you. Other than that, it sounds like fun.

kejs

it sure sounds fun

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no cause i dont have a 1000 dollars a month

Resa

**** why not is much cheaper then my mortgage I'm in lets have fun

sure! it has the same benefits of a house but better and much cheaper so when do i join? :o

haleigh monster

cheaper than rent on boring old land...absolutely!

welchm53

Will there be work so you can earn the money to pay the $1,000.00 every month? If not, you just described a cruise for millionaires. Besides, you don't sail 9 hours a day at sea, you sail 24 hours a day unless you arrive at a port every day and dock for 15 hours. That hardly sounds like the good old pirate days!

Give us a more logical package to think about.

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