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Working from my Excess - Chapter 2 (and an Excess paddleboard to be won!)

Working from my Excess - Chapter 2 (and an Excess paddleboard to be won!)

In the first episode of our series “Working from my Excess”, we shared Marco & Lizzy's story about their experiences on board an Excess 11. Today, we’d like to ask you a bit about this theme. 

How can we best accompany you in such a life project? What’s stopping you from taking the plunge and living aboard your boat while continuing to work? What facilities do you need to help make your work on board comfortable and efficient? To help us imagine your ideal setup, we’ve created a questionnaire that you’ll find here. We promise it will only take you a few minutes to complete.

As a thank-you for your time and valuable feedback, we're giving away an Excess paddleboard: the perfect activity for taking a break between meetings! One lucky winner will be drawn from all the answers we get.

Good luck to everyone and thank you again for your answers!

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Tim
February 19, 2023
1 answer
Hi all,

thoroughly enjoyed the WF my Excess article.

My Excess 11 will be launched in April 23 and I am exploring remote working as an option. Having worked as a contract CAD engineer at a leading F1 team during the pandemic we proved [despite the skeptics] that we could design the car with a dispersed workforce. The major issue was trying to drive a CAD box remotely via wifi was latency.

Starlink looks to be the breakthrough technology to resolve remote desktop latency issues. But their maritime offering is outrageously priced and obviously aimed at super yachts or cruise liners.

It would be helpful if Excess, Beneteau and the yacht building community lobbied Starlink that there is a huge untapped market of remote workers who would sign up if not for the top end pricing.

All the best,

Tim ;-)
Claire - The Excess Team
Claire - The Excess Team
February 27, 2023
Hi Tim,
Thank you very much for your comment and congratulations on your purchase of an Excess 11!
On the subject of Starlink, we're keeping an eye on what's out there - we're in regular contact with our suppliers, but we don't have any specific offers at the moment.
We'll keep you informed if things change!
Kind regards,
Claire
Clara - The Excess Team
Clara - The Excess Team
December 15, 2022
4 answers
Thank you for reporting the problem! We have just resolved it.
Good reading!
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Merci de nous avoir fait remonter ce problème ! Nous venons de le régler.
Bonne lecture !
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François
December 15, 2022
Bonjour Noemie,
Nous venons de refaire une tentative et ça ne fonctionne toujours pas. Il y a bien eu une amélioration car initialement 3 points étaient bloquants et depuis votre intervention il en reste 2 :-)
Bonne journée
Clara - The Excess Team
Clara - The Excess Team
December 15, 2022
Bonjour François,
Je viens de regarder, tout fonctionne de notre côté. Pourriez-vous réessayer à partir d'un nouveau navigateur s'il vous plait ? Tenez nous au courant, nous ferons notre nécessaire pour arranger cela.
Merci !
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François
December 16, 2022
Bonjour Noemie,
Nous avons essayé en vain sur PC, MACBOOK et IPAD avec Safari, chrome et Firefox, sans succès ! Toujours avec le même message d’erreur que je vous ai fait parvenir hier par mail.
J’avoue ne pas comprendre
Bon week-end
Clara - The Excess Team
Clara - The Excess Team
December 19, 2022
Bonjour François,
Nous vous envoyons un e-mail pour voir cela directement avec vous.
A tout de suite !
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François
December 14, 2022
Bonsoir,
Même constat que les derniers commentaires, nous n’avons pas réussi à soumettre le questionnaire
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KelleyP
December 14, 2022
Great article thank you, we are so excited for 2024 when we will be launching our new Excess 14. We intend to work for two seasons on board before retiring to full time cruising.
I also had the same issue with the Questionnaire at the end when submitting with the same ‘incomplete values’ message and it went back to the beginning. Not sure if it did submit?
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arvkv
December 14, 2022
I'll start working aboard from my Excess 11 next year so excited to hear more about this topic. I tried to complete the questionnaire but I keep getting following error.

"Incomplete Values
There are incomplete fields in your submission:
What’s holding you back? is required"

But I never actually see this question in the questionnaire. it never appears.