Looking for someone to help on your vessel?
We can offer the an extensive history of sailing, professional marine qualifications and outdoor work, including:
Jim:
Master Mariner (Class I) unrestricted with full STCW95 (unlimited masters certificate after 21 years merchant service including 8 years as master including master of square rig ships).
Marine Engineer certificate
Square Rig Master
Rescue Diver
Experience in marine ice areas (North Atlantic and Southern Ocean)
Extensive outdoor experience climbing/tramping
Built and sailed a 26 foot engineless vessel UK to New Zealand singlehanded. Also Southern Ocean sailing experience and a lot of sea miles on vessels large and small (including four circumnavigations)
Ham Radio Operator
Ocean yachtmaster
Tori:
New Zealand Masters certificate (ILM)
STCW 95
Square Rig Master
Ocean Yachtmaster (blue water endorsed)
Sailed as mate and master on square rig vessels to 150 feet.
Southern ocean experience
Rescue Diver
Outdoor experience climbing/tramping
PhD.
Ham Radio Operator
We work as a team and are available should you need experienced mariners aboard for your voyage or voyages. We can be contacted by posting a comment on this website, or via the winlink system (for radio Hams) to ZL1TOR
many thanks
Jim and Tori
About Me
- Elenya
- Elenya is a Saltram/Saga 40 yacht designed by Alan Pape and built in 1984. We bought her in 2002 and in 2008/9 we cruised Fiordland, Stewart Island and the NZ Subantartic Islands. After a stop in Auckland to work and more weekend cruising in the Hauraki Gulf, we sailed to Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Micronesia and Guam. In Guam we had a change of plans and sailed back to NZ via New Caledonia, rather than continuing to the Aleutians and Alaska as planned. Alaska, British Columbia, Chile, South Georgia via the Antarctic Peninsula and other places are still out there waiting for us!