HOW TO JOIN YACHTING · CERTIFICATES
Certificates, explained
What to buy, what it costs, what it is for, and what to leave in the shop until a boat asks for it.
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BEFORE YOU DOCKWALK
Your CV is the only thing that walks the dock when you can't.
Captains read a CV in about thirty seconds. Most green CVs lose them in ten. SeaPapers builds the CV a captain expects: yacht fields, department templates, two-page discipline. Free to build. No card.
on SeaPapers, the CV builder for yacht crew
AFTER YOUR FIRST JOB
Keep every paper ready.
Every certificate, medical, passport and visa in one private folio, dated and checked. You see what runs out when. One link sends the whole set to the boat.
Both are SeaPapers. Same captain, same standards.