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Unique opportunity to learn how to sail in exchange for boat repair and maintenance help in Rio Dulce, Guatemala

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  2024 

 Séjour min. souhaité : Au moins deux semaines

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  • Description

    Description

    I am a boatbuilder, housebuilder, and sailboat delivery captain. I need help with building a house, maintaining several boats, and crew for deliveries. I am also building a wooden seaplane called a Volmer VJ 22. Anyone have pilot or airframe or engine experience?

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Bricolage et construction
    Entretien général
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Learn how to sail on my two 40 foot sailboats. I have 3 kayaks, one is a double, two rowboats. There are no roads here, everything is done in boats There are opportunities to interact with my Guatemalan neighbors and workers.

  • Aide

    Aide

    I need help with cleaning, painting, varnishing, carpentry, mechanical, electrical (especially 12 volt boat electrical. canvas work; boat and house maintenance working on my wooden seaplane.. We work pretty hard, and it is often hot here - 30* plus. You should have experience with this kind of work.

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant
    Espagnol: Intermédiaire

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    I have a house that I am just finishing building. Kitchen has a propane stove, a 12 volt refrigerator, (the house is off the grid, electricity is by solar panels and batteries. running water; bathroom with toilet, sink and shower. double bed, insect screens . I pay for basic food ..... EDIT. This house is temporarily rented out to a young German couple who are refitting their sailboat. Workawayers stay on my two sailboats. Cooking and eating are in the main house.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    Internet is available through TIGO on your cell phone, I can also hotspot off of my phone. I just hooked up a Starlink "mini"...and it is working well October 2024
    Time off:, explore Cayo Quemado and the Rio Dulce canyon by launch, kayaks, rowboat. Several local restaurants/ bars, accessible only by boat. There are no roads down here. Resort with ziplines is 20 minutes away by boat. There are small little tiendas with basic food. Larger stores are in Rio Dulce, 12 miles upriver( 1 hour) or 7 miles downriver in the very interesting Caribbean type town ofLivingston.

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il aimait accueillir les digital nomads.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Deux

  • ...

    Nombre d'heures attendues

    5 hours a day, 5 days a week

N° de référence hôte : 785771314226

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