Students Trip Sept 23 – Day 4
DAY 4 REPORT. Monday 25th September. 2023
By the end of the day we still had no news about the lost luggage which is stuck in Madrid. Trying to deal with TAAG Angolan Airlines is frustrating and the boys needed some more clothing.
It is strange that we could not buy shorts as it is the end of summer and all the stores are only selling long trousers here in Spain. We were very lucky that our first visit of the day was to Wave Uniforms where Garth Law spent time with the boys to give them an insight into his business of making sure super yacht crew are well dressed. Garth heard about the luggage problem so he then donated shorts to the boys and problem solved! Thank you Wave and an interesting visit.
Also a big thank you to Nathalie and Andrew at Berthon, as well as Nick von Holstein at MSOS for taking time out of their busy schedules to show the boys what they do. See below.
We have not posted any photos here on visit to Berthon as they have done a great job on Face Book – have a look at https://www.facebook.com/berthonspain Great report!!
I now hand over to Sima for their first hand report of the day’s activities. Cheers – Phil
From Sima for their take on Day 4:
“We started our morning with a visit to the offices of “Wave” uniforms . We were met by Mr Garth and he showed us around and explained to us the different types of clothes for different occupations on a super yacht, the material of they use and to the production of the clothing and told us everything in great detail. The highlight of the tour was when we saw how the yacht’s name and logos are embroidered on the clothing, all done by computer-controlled machines which was quite fascinating to see.
After the tour at Wave we headed off to the Berthon Spain service team, a company doing repairs and maintenance and it is one of the few Berthon offices around Europe. We met the employees and they took us on a tour on one of the boats under auction and the boat was beautiful ! We met the mechanical engineer and he told us how they fix these engines. Surprisingly the head technician of the company was a former chief engineer of the sailing boat Anemos which is the boat we visited in Day 3.
After that visit we had an interesting lunch at a restaurant called WOK where there is a huge array of food presented buffet style for a fixed price, all you can eat. Quite amazing and some very exotic food, even sushi and snails which we tried.
We then set off to MSOS where Capt Nick showed and told us about the medical kits that are needed by law for commercially owned boats as well as yachts. He told us how these medical kits come in different sizes which was interesting. Captain Nick also mentioned the advantages of having a medical course under your belt, especially for working on a yacht. At the end the visit Capt. Nick shared a story of how he saved a man on the beach which was interesting because he was the only person around who could’ve helped him.
Above all we continue to thank all the people that made these opportunities possible.
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A2B Projects
Yacht “Mirage”
Captain Colin Richardson.
Capt James Gilmour
Captain Nick Jackson
Captain Mark McDowell – Super Yacht References.
Captain Clive Walker and his wife Maria March.
Paul Hamill – Shore Marine.
Captain Mike Kopman.
David Abromowitz
Rob van Wierengen
The Bongers Family
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