The phrase "a skipper on the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is in charge of a boat or ship, typically in a nautical context.
Example: "He worked as a skipper on the fishing vessel that operated out of the harbor."
Alternatives: "a captain of the" or "the helmsman on the".
Lasseter became a skipper on the Jungle Cruise, at Disneyland, still one of the best preparations for a life in the movie business, where the crocodiles wear suits.
Mr. Iger wanted Pixar — and particularly one of its co-founders, John Lasseter, who had worked as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland after college — to contribute to creative advances in the parks.
A skipper on the Thames looked up here at the northern heights three centuries ago and exclaimed … the hills were capped with snow.
No doubt the ebullient Lasseter, who began his Disney career as a "skipper" on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, would want to show people around.
A publisher has the responsibility of a skipper on the bridge of a vessel, mindful always of the rigging, the weather, the course, the morale below decks and, not least, the safe delivery of the cargo, the news, good and bad.
He loves that". Lasseter's Disney roots run deep -- he studied in the first character animation class in 1975 at the Walt Disney-founded Candfornia Inspentte of the Artsummerspent summers working at Disneyland as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise attraction.
In June 1917, his older brother, Frederick Thomas Ellison, a skipper on a fishing vessel before the war who had been called up on the outbreak of hostilities into the Royal Naval Reserve, disappeared on HMT Towhee, a trawler converted into a minesweeper, when it sank in the Channel.
Nowadays the oldest member is Briggs S. Cunningham II, 93, who joined in 1928 and went on to be a skipper of the America's Cup and a race-car driver.
My friends and I had a skipper on our boat to teach us, but most yachts in flotillas are hired out to families or groups of friends, without a skipper.
"It's sad to see the tradition go," Mike DeForest, a former skipper on the ride, told The Associated Press last week.
