Deckie Etiquette

[wfryan]

I was just wondering if anyone has a view on guests on small fishing boats?

I have my own boat now but previously always when I went out on a boat as a deckie I would:
Offer to contribute to fuel costs
Do the anchor work (unless this is not needed)
Take my own gear (rod, tackle, clothes, food drinks I wanted)
Be puntual
Help launch (winch, ropes, packing as directed)
Help retrieve (winch, ropes, unpacking as directed)
Offer to help wash the boat

Also I think the skipper needs to inform the guests of safety gear locations and use, radio use, any expected tasks they need to perform and times and destinations for the trip.

Do you think this is standard protocol and is anything missing?

[peterbo3]

The perfect deckie has been found........TOO LATE.
That just about covers all bases except for the six cartons for the skipper at the end of the trip

[roz]

and........ contribute to the VB supply. Not good if the deckie catches all the Moray eels and leaves none for anybody else.

[DR]

must laugh at ALL skippers jokes not (if any) just the funny ones..

[wfryan]

Yeah right :-)

Do you ask people again if you have to take them on an all expenses paid pleasure cruise?

I wouldn't!

But it needs to made clear to the deckie in the first palce.

What is your experince?

[Jeremy]

I was just wondering if anyone has a view on guests on small fishing boats?

I have my own boat now but previously always when I went out on a boat as a deckie I would:
Offer to contribute to fuel costs
Do the anchor work (unless this is not needed)
Take my own gear (rod, tackle, clothes, food drinks I wanted)
Be puntual
Help launch (winch, ropes, packing as directed)
Help retrieve (winch, ropes, unpacking as directed)
Offer to help wash the boat

Also I think the skipper needs to inform the guests of safety gear locations and use, radio use, any expected tasks they need to perform and times and destinations for the trip.

Do you think this is standard protocol and is anything missing?

Looks pretty spot on to me
Jeremy

[DR]

Yeah right :-)

Do you ask people again if you have to take them on an all expenses paid pleasure cruise?

I wouldn't!

But it needs to made clear to the deckie in the first palce.

What is your experince?

have never had anyone not offer to pay or pitch in, even a novice is usually keen to help. He may need guidence but that is ok, we all had to learn.
If i wanted people to do as i want on my boat, no-one would probably come fishing with me, after all i probably shouldn't make people walk the plank for leaving the tackle box open. 'aaarrrggghhh me hearty' truth is i go with the flow & probably do stuff that annoys my deckies, they don't complain so i don't. Only real hard & fast rule is beer, a couple of light only, if any, no gold or heavy...

[ShaneJ]

I dont often go out in other peoples boats, but when I do i'm and sure to pay costs.
However when it comes to helping out by winching, pulling the anchor etc, I always delay just jumping in and taking over. This is not because i'm lazy, is just that I dont want to be doing something in a way the owner of the boat doesnt like
I'm all to keen to do something when i'm asked or shown though
Maybe other people dont feel the same way, but when I take other people on my boat I alway stress that they are not going to care for it the same way I do. Everytime I get a scratch in the paint work I almost cry, so when I have other people pulling the anchor etc, I almost have a heat attack from the stress

[Hookem_Herby]

Roz,
Watch it ... >
We all know that deckies get first shot at any moray eels raised whilst trolling!!!

I like your list wfryan, you may have been the ultimate deckie. lol
Personally, I don't care to much about sharing the cost ... as long as the company is good and they respect my boat and property. Each to their own though ... the skipper is always boss! Ya hear that Rozweiler!!!

Cheers,
Herby

[theoldlegend]

Herby,

Are you inferring that there was a mutiny aboard your boat by the crew at some stage? Just wondering.

TOL

[roz]

... the skipper is always boss! Ya hear that Rozweiler!!!

Cheers,
Herby

Depends who the skipper is Herbster

Weiler.

[Bream_Reaper01]

You'll soon learn whom the ones to have on your boat are and are not,i did.

[martini]

I now own a 6m Tabs Oceon series with a 135hp Merc Optimax (she is a beaut) and the last time I took my uncle out he offered to fill the tank untill I told him it held 200lts. He quickly changed his mind and I let him off the hook

Cheers Noel

Ps her name is Martini (shaken not stired)

[bigmack]

I fish with a mate who would be going fishing by himself anyway so he is grateful for the company and someone else in the boat who knows what they are doing. I contribute to fuel, bait, ice and I make the burley at home and bring along. I drive up on big fish for him and gaff or vice a versa.

Other things you forgot - offer to get him a drink, offer the bbq shapes (all good mackeral fisho's seem to have a packet of shapes in the back ground) Tell the skipper he's/she a bloody legend on the mackeral when he's catching fish and pretend to be lucky when Im catching the fish.

Anyway my mate had his gear nicked from the boat the other day and he was nearly on his knee's in tears - his favourite mackeral rod .............Old Yella it was called, always on the outside right of the boat, a half busted old beach rod that had been re-done into a boat rod - sheeeit that rod use to catch some fish and everyone had threatened to fall over and break it. Now its gone............we will see if that evens things up in the boat. He he he.

Its all about fair contribution but with out stitching up your mates - you were going fishing in the first place -so any company you should be grateful and not seeing it as a way to pay for your fishing trip. IMHO

Cheers

[darryl_l]

When I take my boat out I don't expect the deckie to contribute to fuel as I was going regardless and therefore would have used the fuel. I do expect them to weigh the anchor (about 15lb according to most lol)

When I go as deckie on my mates boat we share the cost involved in the trip so I think it is up to the individual as to whether contributions should be made BUT that discission should be made before the trip not just expected at the end of one.

my two cents worth

Darryl L