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[charminglyantiquated]

So, I’m seriously looking into getting into tall ship sailing (waiting on follow-up from an interview rn) and I’m wondering for getting into it more long-term -

what do people do after sailing tall ships? Like, it’s a pretty physical job, and I’d assume there’s a point where your joints just can’t keep up with it.

Are there other jobs in the industry that people move to? I’m not really keen on the idea of moving up in the ship’s hierarchy- admin and being someone’s boss both aren’t really my thing. Do people retrain in completely different careers? Go back to whatever they were doing before they started sailing?

Anyway, I know your sample size might not be super large so I’d appreciate anything. Thanks a bunch!

This is hard to answer directly - on the one hand sailing tall ships is such a niche industry that there are limited pathways for straightforward advancement. But on the other hand, it overlaps with such a large number of other industries, and requires such a jack of all trades skillset - tourism, carpentry, history and preservation, hospitality, marine electronics, etc. etc. etc. - that there's a lot of ways forward for what I guess I'd call lateral advancement: moving to another job which uses most of the same skills. So there's no one answer, but if it helps, here's some things my tall ship deckhand friends have ended up doing, after no longer deckhanding tallships:

Get a captain's license and keep sailing. Captains often have it a bit easier physically (balanced out by the mental stress lol), and are paid better. Owning your own boat is optional; plenty of companies hire captains by the season to sail the boat, while the management of the company is dealt with by the actual owners. (This is what I did! I don't have the sail-hauling arms I did as a deckhand, but my knees and bank account are both in better shape).

Bosun, first mate, engineer, some other specialized non-captain crew member, usually involves licensing or other education that's useful down the road if you switch to an adjacent career

Racing yachts

Captain for hire on private vessels

Outward bound guide, other wilderness education programs

Harbor cruises, lobster tour guides, and other motor-powered tourist boats, both as captain and as crew - you have the patter and the safety skills but you don't want to deal with the hassle of sails

Water taxis, ferries and other passenger vessels

Lobstering, fishing, aquaculture, tugboats, other non-tourist waterfront industries

Marine surveyor, marine electrician, other specialized technician

Working in a shipyard - good fit for all the fit-out skills of sanding, painting, varnishing, covering and uncovering the boat

Cruise ship hostess

Train conductor (the passion for the early 1900s carried over well)

Working at a a museum focused on local maritime history

Tour guide for local buses, walking tours, etc

Boatbuilder (IYRS, Wooden Boat School)

Teaching the captain's license courses (nota bene: there were obviously some other steps between deckhand and teacher, notably ten years of being a captain in between. But this is what they settled into when they decided sailing was too physically taxing, so I want to include it).

Carpentry, house painting

Designing and selling custom made van-homes (apart from the technical skills, living on board a ship helps familiarize making use of every square inch of space)

Sailmaker

Of course there's other friends who went on to try something completely new and unrelated - I think because so many of the people who start sailing tall ships are here for something completely new in the first place, that's not an intimidating prospect so much as an exciting one. But many of them did make use of tall ship skills even when moving on from tall ships, so I hope the above list is helpful in giving a broad sense of what can follow!

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[ashisdeadanddying]

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[brattylikestoeat]

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[theroamingvegan]

love supporting the vegan friendly chocolatiers of Bruges!

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[prismstonearchives]

ショコラティエまつり - Chocolatier Matsuri

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[raethereptile]

I AM MAKING CHOCOLATES FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ITS WORKING OMG

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[little-witchys-garden]

I made some sanrio characters

Name: Breve

Full name: Raspberry-Chocolate-Breve

Species: Calico bunny

Gender identity: Transmac

Pronouns: Any and All

Sexuality: Skolioromantic Demisexual

Partner: Latte

Job: Chocolatier

Name: Latte

Full name: Lavender Latte

Species: Bobcat and Calico cat mix

Gender identity: Nonbinary

Pronouns: They/Them

Sexuality: Queer Demiromantic

Partner: Breve

Job: Lavender gardener

Art by: capi

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[nanmo-wakaran]

gem shaped truffles

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[smotherstories]

I like the ones that melt in my mouth and not in my hands.

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[ems-beautifully-plain-taxi-cab]

a round of rootbeers for our hero, the flying ace!!!

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[francepittoresque]

GASTRONOMIE | Papillotes : une belle histoire romantique pour origine ➽ https://bit.ly/Origine-Papillotes Incontournable symbole de festivités, cette gourmandise est la star du mois de décembre. Mais d'où vient ce petit bonbon de chocolat emballé dans un papier brillant et accompagné d'un petit mot ? Et pourquoi c'est si bon ? Petite page d'histoire chocolatée et glucosée

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[siniirrphotography]

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[ashisdeadanddying]

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[daeva-agas]

Playing Chocolatier again, and finding out that if you mess up the quest you can get locked out of the "task chain", and I can't complete the storyline LOL.

One of the quests was this lady asking to deliver something to somewhere, and I accidentally said no. This quest is needed to unlock the truffle recipes. Because I ended up going on some other quest chain, somehow it locked me out of the truffle quest and that lady never came back.

Had to abandon the account and restart.

I'm super curious how the conditions were programmed into the game. If that quest is necessary, maybe the devs should've made it unrefusable.

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[megahorous]

Katy and Kofu !

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[prismstonearchives]

ショコラティエ - Chocolatier

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