For Daniel Guerra, an aspiring Brazilian sailor keen to travel the world, the job ad was a dream come true.
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00:00For Daniel Guerra, an aspiring Brazilian sailor keen to travel the world, the job ad was a dream
00:05come true. A British yacht owner was seeking two deck hands to help sail his boat from Brazil
00:11across the Atlantic, one of the great ocean journeys. There would be no salary, but all
00:17expenses paid, and, crucially, Mr Guerra would gain some of the sailing experience he needed
00:23to qualify as a sea captain. My dream was to become a captain and go work in Europe,
00:28remembers the 43-year-old, who saw the advert from an online sailing recruitment agency.
00:35So I was super happy, knowing that my path to my dream was beginning.
00:40Things looked even better when Mr Guerra and his fellow recruit, Rodrigo Dantas, 32,
00:46met their new British employer. They had feared he might be some snobbish yachtie or posing
00:51Instagrammer, who would make sure they knew who was boss. But no, George Saul was a smiling,
00:57friendly figure, who did not insist on formalities. The sailors, he said, could even
01:04call him by his nickname, Fox. I used to work on some boats and the owners were old, super demanding,
01:11super rude and talked down to me, adds Mr Dantas. He was like, very cool, very friendly.
01:19Fox even passed the approval test of Mr Dantas's parents, who were worried about their son doing
01:24such a long journey on a yacht owned by a total stranger, and asked to meet him for themselves.
01:30To borrow the old sailing expression, they like the cut of his jib.
01:35They learned that Fox had brought the rich harvest over to Brazil for renovations
01:39and wanted a competent crew to sail it back to Europe on his behalf.