<TITLE>The Boat Butler - Boat caretaking service

A care and preparation service whose aim is to maximise your time spent aboard your boat by doing the chores and servicing you might hate, or not have time for..

The Boat Butler offers a service, which provides the elbow-grease and attention to detail which means that you are ready for the “off” immediately you step aboard. And furthermore, when your all-too-short time aboard is expired, feel free to walk away, knowing that your boat will be prepared for your next trip.

I can take the pride in your vessel that you would yourself – if you could spare the time!

The Boat Butler offers 3 levels of service as detailed below:

1. Work as required on dayrate payment terms
The Boat Butler can offer individual servicing or valeting services at a daily rate of £125 including travel.

2. Annual Upkeep Contract
The Annual Upkeep Contract as listed below is available for an annual fee of £1750.
The standard service includes the following:

Minimum attendance 1 full-day per calendar month to clean, check, ventilate
All galley-equipment cleaned and re-stowed
All upholstery shampooed
All surfaces cleaned and sterilised - floors, bulkheads, deck heads
Bilge washed through and de-greased
Engine serviced , cleaned and functional checked
Topsides washed and cleaned
Hull (above-waterline) cleaned and polished
This routine carried out at least once per season to fit in with your sailing programme.
Consumables can either be provided by the client or supplied at cost.

3. De Luxe Contact
The De Luxe Service provides all the Annual Upkeep Contract activities but additionally offers a grocery delivery service, once again to fit in with your sailing programme.

You can either communicate a full list of your requirements, or tell me the number in your party, plus the number of nights on board, and I will supply an inventory, plus a suggested menu for each day.

I will deliver your groceries aboard on the day of your arrival, and require the bill to be remunerated at cost.

Naturally, I will include a wine selection either of my own choice, or at your recommendation.

The De Luxe Service adds a further number of ½-days to cover your sailing programme at £65 per half-day visit.

The main point to note is flexibility -the Boat Butler will do it’s best to provide whatever you need to enhance your boating activity by buying you time.

Naturally, there would need to be a face-to-face meeting to assess boat condition and individual owner’s requirements.

My own credentials for performing this service are as follows:

Joined Royal Navy as Engineer Officer cadet in Sep’71 and served for 11yrs, including aboard HMS Scarborough, Yarmouth, Ark Royal and London
British Gas as Assistant Site Engineer at Bishop Auckland Test Site for 6yrs
Plant Engineer at BASF Middlesbrough for 12yrs
Carried out a number of Engineering management roles since 2002 including maintenance and project work
Desire to be my own man for the latter years of my working life.

I am fastidious about cleanliness and orderliness – possibly a result of my time in the Navy - and take personal pride in delivering a service to a standard that I would want.

I am a boat owner myself, so understand boat owner’s requirements from a personal perspective.

Where: Covering the North East from Amble to Whitby.

When: Availability from 2012 sailing season.

Contact: Initially via this web-site - email: tony@theboatbutler.co.uk

Boat caretaking service