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Alex Rawson

(Personal Profile)

E-mail: rippingrawson@hotmail.com

 

Mob No: +44 (0) 773 216 3323

 

Date of Birth: 23/09/87

 

Nationality: British

 

Marital Status: Single

 

Current Location: Cowes UK

 

Available from: August 2007

 

Healthy, Non-smoker,

 

Driving License (Full, clean, UK)

 

I am a young and enthusiastic sailor with a strong water sports and yachting background. My experiences teaching at local surf school has given me excellent customer service and communication skills. My passion for sport has taught me the importance of being a team player. I joined the United Kingdom Sailing Academy in September 2006 to fulfil my love for the ocean and to gain the wide range of qualifications and experiences to make my passion into a career opportunity.

 

 

Maritime Qualifications to be completed in June 2007

 

 

 

January-June This is an intense Yachtmaster trainee course in which I have spent time using various yachts ranging from 26ft Colgate’s to 67ft challenge yachts. I had various roles on the boats, which consisted of skipper, engineer, chef and crew. As skipper I have had a lot of boat handling under power and sail in a diverse range of conditions, I also did lots of navigation and pilotage and became confident with all the instruments on board such as radar, GPS and communication systems. During my training I have attended courses concentrating on maintaining and repairing winches, sails, ropes, rigging, varnish work, GRP, electrics, hydraulics and engines. I now feel that I can competently conduct routine maintenance and repairs in all the areas.

 

A major part of the training was my ocean phase in which I did three ocean passages in Caribbean waters. During which I really got into the watch system and thoroughly enjoyed the astronavigation navigation, which pushed me to begin with. The in depth planning and preparation I had to do prior to the passages became very rewarding when everything came together and the 2000 miles of passages were complete.

 

July-August 2003 Crew Prince William, Tall Ship

 

This was my first offshore passage; we sailed from Anterpen to Aalborg in the annual tall ship race. I quickly discovered how the watch system and sail drills worked on such a large and unusual boat. I learnt a huge amount during this passage from a very experienced Skipper and Mate.

 

 

Water sports:

 

I have grown up doing lots of different water sports starting with dingy sailing when I was 6 in which I immediately enjoyed and have continued since. When I was 10 I stared surfing this is now one of my main passions in life. I am a fully qualified multi activity instructor and take great pleasure in teaching students.

 

June – September 2006 Surfing Instructor Animal Surf Academy

 

I enjoyed my work for the academy and learnt a great deal of soft skills in dealing with customer services and general people skills, which have been very useful as skipper. I also did some managing at the desk which involved tacking bookings and organizing large groups of customers.

 

 

July – September 2005 Surfing Instructor Surfs Up Surf School and Harlyn Surf School

 

When I got my surf instructor qualification I was too young to be employed so I did some work experience at two schools to gain the knowledge of how they worked. I assisted in the instruction of group lessons, providing advice and feedback to students, demonstrating and explaining surf manoeuvres, organizing the distribution of surf equipment and ensuring that health and safety procedures where adhered to.

 

 

July – August 2004 Life Guard RNLI

 

I did my life guard training in June 2004 and then did some work experience during the summer months on the crowded North Cornwall coast helping out at Harlyn bay.

 

2000 – 2006: Kings College Taunton, Somerset.

 

Grades: 8 GCSE s (A*, B’s, C’s) and 3 A - levels (Grades A, B, D)

 

1991 – 2000: Wolbrough Hill School - Newton Abbot, Devon

 

Sport represents:

 

School: 1^st teams: Rugby and Hockey for two years and three times victor dorm winner

 

County: Somerset: Athletics. Devon Trials: Rugby, Cricket and Athletics

 

Nationals: Athletics

 

Other:

 

CCF- four years, Primary School athletics- three years, Junior sports leader awards, Duke of Edinburgh Gold award, School and House prefect.

 

 

Rugby, hockey, surfing, wakeboarding, any type of sailing, windsurfing, kite surfing, skiing, snowboarding, power boating, athletics, tennis, art and design, photography, filming and editing especially of the sports I enjoy, listing to music, health and nutrition, travelling and discovering new places.

 

Cally Logsdon Andy Cameron

 

United Kingdom Sailing Academy Animal Surf Academy.

 

cally.logsdon@uksa.org asa@wavehunters.co.uk

 

Tell: +44 (0) 1983 20 30 36 Tell: +44 (0) 7891 63 94 61