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    • 75ft Darling Motor Yacht / Pluckebaum Baymaster
    • United States
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Mechanic/Deckhand - Temporary / Seasonal - United States

If you are skilled with tools, creative problem solving, are willing to learn, and able to work as a team, we need your help! Please rely with your skills, experience, and interests?

Inclusive Adventures is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit serving all with a design focus on Mobility Impaired Wheelchair Users including Disabled Youth, Wounded Veterans, and Elderly.

Possibilities is a 1979 62' Pluckebaum Aluminum Motoryacht with a level-deck floorplan, and 30"+ wide doorways making it ideal for modification for wheelchair accessibility. She has twin 340 Hp Cummings diesels, 20kw diesel generators, and is nearly completely refit over past 2 years.

We are also working on a unique, straightforward fully Inclusive, 26' off-grid Class C RV that is fully capable of being operated from a wheelchair. Earn time using her yourself with one or two family or friends!

Possibilities has new inclusive joystick controls that also work for someone with mobility impairments to Captain her which we will be proving. These can be disengaged in 15-30 seconds and reverted to her traditional mechanical controls (where you come in). She is off-grid capable with a new 3kw solar hartop, Lifepo4 Batteries, watermaker. Other various tasks that include carpentry, finishing some DC electrical, desiel engine maintenance. She will be pioneering INCLUSIVE adventure trips from Florida to Bahamas and up East Coast for adventurous of all abilities. She has completed 50% of America's Great Loop.

Volunteer opportunities for day locally, or staying aboard 2 weeks and may be invited to extend 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months with opportunities to return. If invited to stay, we will reimburse reasonable travel expenses. Volunteers receive room and board while living, learning, and working together on-board. Your responsible for your shore-based expenses. Abuse of anything such as alcohol or drugs will not be tolerated.

Open to International persons with B1/B2 VISA or a VISA Waiver program / ESTA.

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About Inclusive Adventures - Adventures are about the journey, not the destination.

We provide Life Changing Experiences for Uniquely Abled, Wheelchair Users and Non-Wheelers, Young @ Heart, and @ Risk Youth! Created by the Disabled for the Disabled ... or as we prefer ... by the Uniquely Able for the Differently Able.

Adventure offers us a freedom only achieved through overcoming challenges, and our fears. This newfound freedom of thought offers perspective throughout life, literally and measurably changing our lives as we add new skills while developing independence.

The journey itself contributes to every individual's personal development. You acquire new qualities, you become spiritually rich as you learn about culture, traditions, and history of various people living in other places and times. You begin to understand the why. This leads to an inclusive perspective on the ultimate similarities in all people, their goals, desires, and in that realization, differences become trivial details.

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You should have a lust for adventure and open-minded, easy-going personality, with a desire to help others and improve the world. I have been designing and implementing modifications to the vessel to make it 100% wheelchair friendly (75% complete). I am a quadriplegic man who uses an electric power wheelchair after forced landing plane crash 15 years ago due to engine failure after takeoff. I have been designing and creating solutions to empower mobility impaired individuals through greater independence for the last 15 years including working with Veterans Administration and other orgs throughout the country.

Our Website https://inclusiveinc.org and https://www.inclusiveadventures.org

Text or WhatsApp +1-763-742-0612

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  • Crew positionMechanic/Deckhand

  • Type of workTemporary / Seasonal

  • Availability Available now for the foreseeable future

  • Expenses to/from vesselPaid by crew

  • Expenses onboardPaid by skipper / boat owner

  • Team / SoloNot important

  • InterviewWhatever is convenient
    We will arrange a date and time that is convenient for us both

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Vessel

  • TypeMotor Yacht

  • Make/modelDarling Motor Yacht / Pluckebaum Baymaster

  • Length75 feet

  • Berth4

  • Sailing from United States , Punta Gorda, Florida

  • Sailing to United States , Punta Gorda, Florida

  • Language spoke aboardEnglish

  • Boat descriptionInclusive Adventures is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. InclusiveInc.org A COMMUNITY IS STRENGTHENED BY EACH MEMBER'S CONTRIBUTIONS. INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES ARE STRONG COMMUNITIES. Mission: To empower all to contribute their talents to the best of their abilities. Give Perspective. Create Possibilities. Change a Life. Strengthen Community. We INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, AND EDUCATE THRU LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCES to stimulate a fundamental shift in perspective for both participants and the public from programmed, vulnerable dependency to confident, capable self-determination. Participants develop confidence in their capabilities and a perspective of possibility. Why would anyone try to achieve an education or contribute their talents through employment if they believe their only prospect is to sit in front of a television trapped in a nursing home or even their own home. We all need to believe in future possibilities worth striving to achieve. Participants learn new skills through the catalyst of adventure. Adventure offers us a sense freedom only achieved in overcoming challenges, perceived limitations, and our fears. This newfound freedom, powerfully shifts perspective to possibility - directly and measurably changing participant's lives, and their role in family and community. Adventures are about the Journey, Not the Destination. A journey involves personal development. A trip is from point A to point B. Possibilities is a 62' Pluckebaum Baymaster Houseboat Style Motor Yacht with twin 340 hp Cummings VT903-M2 Diesel Engines. Aluminum hull and engines are 1979. Everything else has been upgraded or replaced. Features a huge 3kw solar hardtop with 29kwh Lifepo4 Batteries that can power everything when off-grid on anchor including air conditioning in 1-2 cabins overnight. Wheelchair lift and ramps, roll-in shower, ceiling lift track for transfers from wheelchair to bed, new wheelchair-friendly galley, custom adaptive controls allow anyone to take the helm when cruising if they can drive a wheelchair even with head control only. Possibilities II is a 75' Aluminum Caribbean Capable Motor Yacht, being modified for 100% inclusive wheelchair-friendly access from aft cockpit to helm to the flybridge to the engine room. 100% Off-Grid Solar capable, including solar air conditioning. Can cruise America's Great Loop and the Caribbean. America's Great Loop is circumnavigating the Eastern continental United States and Canada over 6000 miles. This cruise involves stopping at many cities and spending the week, smaller towns for provisioning or 50 of 70 of the United States national parks. We started by South from Louisville Kentucky on the Ohio River, then to the Tennessee River and the land between the Lakes, south through Alabama on the Tombigbee canal to Mobile Alabama, then New Orleans, and all of Florida. Next is East Coast of US past New York, up the Hudson to the Erie Canal, through the Great Lakes and Canadian heritage canals, to Chicago. Photos and Video of Wheelchair Accessibility Aboard: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QSZAMXsXab1mX5uKA Video of Wheelchair Dinghy: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VyGWXDi6eXozbAyr8 Follow us on https://Facebook.com/inclusiveinc.org Future possible opportunity: We are also working on acquiring a 52-foot aluminum sailboat designed from the keel up to be captained by a wheelchair user with electric sales, etc. Currently in the Mediterranean, and would need to bring it across the Atlantic sometime in the next year to provide adventure trips from Florida to Cuba to the Dominican Republic and back for handicapped wheelchair users.

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Skipper

  • NationalityUnited States

  • Age48

  • GenderMale

  • Fluent languages English
    Spanish

  • Qualifications 1st Aid
    ASA Basic Small Boat Handling
    Boat Operator Licence
    Safety Boating Course
    USCG 100 Ton Master

  • Sea Miles 500 - 2,500

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It's a phenomenal project. Good job.

12th May 2022

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