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a similar job in two different companies for 11 years or so and the idea of new challenges was very exciting. “Seeing the job coming up for the harbourmaster
here, I thought it was worth throwing my hat into the ring and fortunately I managed to impress them. “It’s a little like coming full circle. This is where the idea of a career at sea first started and now I’ve come home to the river. “Hopefully, I can start to make a difference as
the steward of the river looking after it for the next generation. It’s exciting.” Paul aims to encourage the harbour authority to
become more customer focussed and also puts the river’s environmental credentials at the top of his agenda.
“I ma keen that we become more
customer focussed, that we look after our berth holders and the yachts better but just as importantly, if not more importantly, the environment will be better. “We are looking after 12 miles or so
what they do immediately but we might be encouraging them in the future to look at things a little bit differently. “For example, there has been a lot of talk at the annual meeting about water quality. At the moment, most of the yachts have a traditional marine toilet; it would be very nice to see that moving slowly towards most boats having a holding tank and us having decent facilities for pumping out. “There is one pump-out station on the river and another one being built and we probably need at least one more before we can really start moving on that. “It’s for us to provide the infrastructure and for us to
“I want to make the river cleaner and a more attractive and better place for wildlife”
of, in my mind, the best environment in pretty much the whole world so we need to be really focussed on that. “It’s not in bad condition at all at the moment but
that doesn’t mean it can’t be better. “I want to make the river cleaner and a more
attractive and better place for wildlife, and hopefully for the harbour authority to have a net zero impact on global warming. “It’s a pretty long term project and there is stuff in
there that we have no idea how to achieve, but we can try and work it out and with luck and hard work we will get there. “We are going to need to take our customers along with us but we will help them every step of the way. “We are not going to be telling people to change
provide encouragements for people to use it. And we are already starting to investigate moving our fleet over from being a diesel and petrol based fleet to being electric.” Although he doesn’t have so far to
travel to work, Paul’s husband Andrew is worried he will see him less than ever. “Andrew is slightly scared that I
won’t spend any time with him, that I’ll spend it all on the river,” he joked.
“But he is fantastic, really supportive. His career couldn’t be more different to mine – he runs his own business making corsets.” It’s no surprise that Paul also spends his leisure time on the water. “Walking has been a hobby for a long time and living
here it’s obvious why as we have the coast path and Dartmoor – it couldn’t be a better way to spend your time. “For the last five years or so I’ve also really been
enjoying kayaking on the Dart and the stunning estuaries and coastline of South Devon and Cornwall. “After being on a really big ship, being just a foot or so above the water really changes your perspective.”
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