Yachting CV

Vas Kosseris, MBA, MA

Email: V@Cosseri.com

• Extensive hands-on experience & detailed knowledge on yacht management, including passage planning, improvement projects & maintenance.
• Owner of "Mondo Cosseri", a liveaboard motorsailer with two masts (ketch) and a dinghy. Waterline length is 11 meters. She is equally at home in the ocean, canals, rivers, on tidal flats or among ice floats. This is because she has a steel hull with three keels and three propellers. She has been professionally built and refit in England and she is flying the British flag (United Kingdom Ship Register). Ongoing ownership since 2006.
• Honorary Port Officer and member of the Narrowseas Club in the U.K.. 
• Member of The Yacht Club of Austria
• Former member of The Yacht Club of Greece, as no longer living in Athens
• My full legal name is “Vassilios Kosseris”
• I also have a professional CV to showcase my other qualifications outside yachting

WORK EXPERIENCE

06/2006–Present Yacht maintenance Own yacht (Mondo Cosseri), Kefalonia (Greece)

Hands-on maintenance tasks include carpentry & joinery to improve access to the steel inside the hull, steel surface preparation to remove rust, applying epoxy resin & antifouling coatings, fiberglassing for repairs to the top structure of the yacht and to the dinghy, unstepping & stepping of masts to navigate inland waters, maintenance of marinised diesel engines, generators & hydraulic systems, cleaning of tanks, battery maintenance, testing and replacing 12V & 240V electrics, updating marine electronics, cleaning pumps & plumbing, updating safety systems, painting and varnishing

08/08/2009–17/11/2009 Captain Own yacht (Mondo Cosseri)

• Planned down to the smallest detail and executed a successful passage on my yacht from London to Kefalonia
• Motored from Burnham-on-Crouch, U.K. to Argostoli in Kefalonia, Greece via French rivers and the Strait of Messina
• Approximately 2,000 n.m. under various weather conditions, including night navigation

2007–2009 Improvement projects Own yacht (Mondo Cosseri), Burnham-on-Crouch (United Kingdom)

• Conceived the ideas, researched technical details and supervised the implementation of the following improvement projects: installation of a second diesel engine; an electric generator; a hydraulic system powering two additional propellers; household electrical appliances & power showers with their supporting systems; an electric toilet with holding tank, etc.
• Also, the addition, per my designs, of a hot tub, a second separate cabin, a second head and the conversion of the open cockpit aft to a third cabin
• Personally installed marine electronics, TV, CCTV, alarms and other electrical devices. Applied my carpentry, steel expertise and fiberglassing skills on numerous small projects

21/05/2009–25/05/2009 Crew

Sailing a Moody 346 from Burnham-on-Crouch U.K. to Calais France and back for a total of 130 n.m. over 24 night hours

2006–2009 Captain/Crew East coast of England (United Kingdom)

Various sailing and motoring trips on my yacht and friends' yachts in the Crouch, Roach and Blackwater rivers and related approaches from the North Sea, Essex, U.K

06/2006–06/2006 Crew Own yacht (Mondo Cosseri)

Motoring trip from Southampton to Burnham-on-Crouch, U.K.

1991–1991 First Mate Rhode Island (United States)

Sailed on a chartered Rhodes 42 to Block Island and back to Rhode Island

05/1991–05/1991 First Mate Chesapeake Bay (United States)

Sailed on a chartered Dickerson 37 in the Chesapeake Bay for 3 days

1989–1991 First Mate New York (United States)

Sailed on a Sabre 34 in Long Island Sound over 3 summers. Member of the St Bart’s Community Club

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

11/05/2008 RYA/MCA Small Craft Basic Sea Survival Course, East Anglian Sea School (United Kingdom)

08/11/2007 International Certificate for Operator of Pleasure Craft, RYA (United Kingdom). Valid for Coastal Waters and Inland Waters for Power up to 10m, Sail up to 24m/80GT and PWC

25/02/2007 Practical Sailing Course – Day Skipper Tidal (RYA), Crouch Sailing School, Burnham-on-Crouch (United Kingdom)

28/01/2007 Shorebased Course - RYA/MCA Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster Offshore, Crouch Sailing School, Burnham-on-Crouch (United Kingdom)

26/11/2006 Shorebased Course - Day Skipper for Sail & Power Craft (RYA), Crouch Sailing School, Burnham-on-Crouch (United Kingdom)

04/09/2006 Maritime Radio Operator Certificate of Competence – Short Range Certificate (RYA), Crouch Sailing School, Burnham-on-Crouch (United Kingdom)

31/03/2006 First Aid at Work – 4 day, British Red Cross, London (United Kingdom)

15/08/2000 Open Water Diver PADI Asia Pacific SIDS-Planet Scuba Koh Tao, Koh Tao (Thailand)

12/10/1986 Bareboat Preparation, Offshore Sailing School, Ltd, City Island New York (United States)