Boat Deck Hand

Overview

Working as a deck hand for Cocoa Beach Eco Tours is a fun and exciting position. You will be running up to three trips per day about 3 times per week. This comes out to about $150 per day with about $100 in tips split between the captain and deckhand. Below are the responsibilities you will be taking as a deck hand

Responsibilities

• PRE TRIP

• Ready to work at 8:45, dress professional, pockets

• Check both Bathrooms first

• Install Gangway

• Cooler, drain, Ice and stock sodas

• Wipe seats

• Bring down sodas and waters in white bucket, Ice man will stock

• Look for trash and sweep under seats

• put up Flag

• Radio, 2 mics and Audio on and tested.

• Adjust lines as per captain (loosen bow and or stern, adjust spring if needed)

• Any time Pax approaches, greet with a hand shake and smile, be sincere! When people are boarding, this first impression is game time, SMILE, SHAKE HANDS

• Someone is always at Gangway while pax are boarding

• Double check that every one is checked in and waivers are signed

• Pax head count, tell captain # as we get underway

• Remove Gangway and put it on the dock, put pins in tray gate shut both on boat and at fence

DURING TRIP

• Pull fenders going out canal, stored in front of radio

• Take breaks as needed, preferably while running on river, not during a trip turn over.

• 80/20 rule. Narrate 80%, Talk to each group 20%, focus on the introverts and grumpy people

• Learn to watch for wildlife while talking. Eyes all around all the time

• During trip, check head, especially if someone was in there for a while or its getting used a lot

Last trip of day

• After final speech as we enter canal put fenders out

• Flyers to give to friends and Bioluminesense

• Gather everything that goes to office, turn off radio, mics and audio plug going down canal and set on table by radio

• Be at Gangway saying goodbye, shanking hands

• Dock lines secure

-Trash, recycle. Rinse cans

• Clean heads on boat and in the office

• Bring Flag down

• All trash off deck, look under seats, hair balls and base of seats

• Gangway on boat, pins in tray

• Boat gates latched shut

• Fence Gate locked

• Radio equipment, black box, boat keys and boat cash in the office. Plug in 2 mics, 1 Audio plug, and radio (rotate radio battery every few days)

• Office locked

Pay: $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person