User:HankOnthewater
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Past nautical stuff:
- Sailing for 50 years, sea-kayaking for 15 years
- Sailed on North Sea, Meditarenian, many European lakes
- Kayaked for 3 months on Rhine, Main and Danube
- Worked on boats as a living: building, fitout, repair, survey, rope splicing, deliveries
- Teach navigation and radio operators licence
- Teach sailing and power boat (skipper's) ticket
- Lived on and sailed my 34 ft ferro yacht for 15 years
Current nautical stuff:
- Crew on racing yacht when I don't have work commitments
- Qualified sea rescue skipper for 12 years, and trainer of sea rescue skippers
- Coxswain ticket
- Sail West and South coast of West Australia
- Experienced working with: plastics, fibreglass, epoxy, timber, steel, electrical (low voltage), electronics, ropes, rigging
- Involved with 'Sailability' program (taking disabled people sailing)
- Sailing largish cruising ketch
Non nautical work:
- Long work history in retail management: marketing, store management, HR, administration, accounting
- Shorter work history of: IT (both software and hardware), sports coach (sailing and volleyball)
- Currently: nursing (clinical in a very wide area of acute nursing, plus education, recruitment and management)
Studied formally:
- Electronic Engineering, Accounting, Nursing
updated June 2016