Marine Repair and Maintenance - marine services - craigslist (2024)

Bright work including varnish, all types of carpentry jobs
Fiber glass and bulkhead maintenance removal an reinstall
Rigging ( mast tuning) winch cleaning and maintenance
Sail washing and check for loose or broken threads

This is my Resume which will hopefully give you a a more specific look at my skills and experience.
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Peter McGovern
21 Alvern Rd.
Pembroke, MA 02359

Education
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, History; Classics
Masters in Linguistics
Internship
Worked as an assistant for Councilmen/women for the Municipality of Boulder, CO

Post Graduate Studies
Certified to Teach English as a Second Language (ESL Certification)
Marine surveyor certificate from Mass Maritime Academy

South Eastern Sails and Marine, Marine Services Company which I created owned and operated.
Services: Repair, maintenance, retro-fit and remodeling
-Wood and Fiberglass work
-Port, Hatch and Deck Hardware installation
-Sail Design, Manufacture and Repair
-Installation, Maintenance and repair of all running and standing rigging, Including Mast Tuning;
RF and Standard, plus all necessary work aloft
-Distribution of Marketing Materials.
Please see website for portfolio and more details
www.southeasternsailsandmarine.com

David Howard Sail Maker. Marshfield MA Worked both full and part time building and designing sails for small to medium size craft. Most significantly, over a ten year period David mentor me in design of sails fundamentally as well as specific enough to meet the modern temperament of sailors, conditions rigs and the sundried variables requiring a careful balance when divining sail shape and consequent adaptability.

Doyle Sail Makers, Marblehead MA Although I also worked for Doyle Sail Makers very long ago, it was not insignificant or an invaluable experience. I was a novice yet valued member of their sail making team. Although Doyle s method was very modular, I Fortunately worked in secondary layout where the view and experience was far less narrow in its Scope I eventually learned a lot about proper sizing of hd’sl and mainsail luff curves as well as cutbacks, and even broad seaming.

Battelle Marine Sciences Division , Conducted Annual Subcontract for MWRA (Mass. Watershed Resource program).
Fieldwork: Collect water samples from specific areas and depths in and around Mass. Bay, Cape Cod bay, Stellwagon bank and Little Georges Bank.
-Analyze these samples to asses the impact of regional sewage treatment facilities on overall health of New England fisheries and seawater - developed and maintain equipment for collection of field samples.

Snug Harbor Yachts. Duxbury MA During this time I built and installed the standing and running rigging for an new one design class for racing sloops; “Pintails”, 22’ Hull: cedar strip planked and double spiral planking and heavy Fiberglass to be hand boarded to finish. Closed cell Divinicyl and Okume plywood for molded deck laminate. I Installed Hardware worked in most facets of the cold molding and hull construction and all of the standing and running rigging layouts. Stepping and consequential tuning of the mast.

Boston Boat works, East Boston, MA, Custom Building of high tech multimillion dollar racing sailboats, worked with very low tolerances and exotic materials. Built male and female molds for subsequent production of Taylor 40s’. Also, repaired and maintained a variety of sail and power boats.

Van, (Eastern Turkey): Created grass roots English language school for Kurdish community center and Van municipal tax office. Did this while simultaneously working under purview ( as a contractor) of the U.S. State Department Liaison Office, Ankara. My agenda was to contribute conclusive and "unofficial” reports on Kurdish capacity, desire, and need for cultural exchange/assimilation with Turkish. Worked directly and openly on this with our students with the hope to reconcile differences between the two ethnicities

Work at sea, Salvage delivering and towing.

Salvage and towing
Spent 4 separate four-six month periods developing a working relationship with various contractors in the Eastern Mediterranean, Primarily independent Greek Contractor Harlambos Xenios, as a crew/skipper, delivering and towing classic wooden Gulets from turkey to the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus. Gulet was essentially a Turkish Schooner, beautiful, yet old, and barely seaworthy. We usually had to reinforce week spots in the Gulets. set up generators and pumps then use one or two open steel workboats to tow, motor, even sail or just drag a sinking yacht across the sea .Also during this time I worked on deliveries of wooden and fiberglass cruisers from both Marmaris and Antalya to Turkish Cyprus, Cyprus, Syria and Israel,

Crew and Delivery Resume

Crew Resume 1998- 2009
Completed numerous yacht deliveries and tows of large Turkish Gulets’ (Schooner), between, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel and Greece

1999, 2004 and 2006 Delivery Crew and Independent Subcontractor,
Atlantic: 40’ plus Hylas yachts sold into Bareboat service.
Northeast to Florida,
Northeast- USVI,
Northeast to Bermuda,
Florida to USVI,
Mediterranean:
Israel to Syria and Cyprus
Repeat deliveries of 50’- 90’ Turkish Gulets’ (Schooner)
Antalya to Cyprus,
Cyprus to Arwad, (Syria) to Israel
Marmaris, Turkey to Crete

Salvage completed stripping of exotic woods and hardware on aging, sunken and abandoned Turkish Gulus and Syrian Dhows in Tel Aviv, Cyprus and Arwad Island, Syria

References: Joe Berkman, 978-764-4016 Owner, G-Boats, Essex, MA
David Howard, 316-789-5917, David Howard Sail makers, Marshfield MA
Rob Knecht, 781-831- 7097, Foreman, Snug Harbor Yachts