Sea staff

Sea staff profiles

This page has profiles of our full-time professional sea staff. See here for a selection of the volunteer and relief staff.

Staff skipper, James Boyce

Age: The young fresh face of the future
Height: Tall enough to see over wheel and the new chart plotter!
Nickname: Cake Face
Catchphrase: “Don’t throw my coffee away! It’s meant to be cold.”
Favourite band: Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Big Country, Travis and the Bay City Rollers
Ambition: To live long enough to see Scotland beat England at rugby... or anything...
Best sailing moment: Close to nature in the Sound of Mull
Biggest talent: Caber tossing
Biggest weakness: Small talk
Where do you see yourself in ten years' time? In the mirror
How would you like to die? In a Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough vat
If you were going to be reincarnated, who would you come back as? Paris Hilton, or a new cast member in Glee
Favourite part of the boat: The Power Shower
If the boat was sinking and you could rescue one thing, what would it be? My iPhone
Who or what is the love of your life? See previous answer...

Staff bosun, David Bland

Dave came to us as a crew member for Tall Ships 2010, aged 18, and despite having to endure a race in gales and severe gales (luckily from the right direction) he came back to us for a couple of voyages in 2011, where he succeeded in earning a recommendation to join our volunteer sea staff. However, this wasn't enough for him, for shortly thereafter he gave up a prmising career installing home entertainment systems to come and work for us full-time, starting at the beginning of the 2011-12 refit. He was quickly stuffed into a water tank and told not to come out until all the rust was removed, but he still seems to be smiling....

 

Click here to see some of our current volunteer and relief sea staff.