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Cranky,
I understand your complaint, and do not have an answer for you.
I have always tried to hire peope new to the industry who would like to learn the ropes and be the best they can be, much in the manner you have described how you started out. Sometimes you just have to play the hand you were dealt when it comes to your crew, I guess.
In the situtation you have mentioned with needing new docklines, I would have asked the deckhand to do the splicing with me. For one thing, someone who has been doing splicing for a while will be able to bring a newbie along far quicker and better than having a read through in the book and trying to do it by trial and error. Second of all, I would feel better about the quality of the splices knowing that I had osberved the deckahand whilst doing it.
Anyways, I think there are still young people who are passionate about yachts and yachting out there, but it seems with the advent of bigger boats all the time that are in need of crew, that the old ways of "working your way up" have disappeared.
Good rant though. Hoping to hear how others feel as well.
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