SINGLES SAILING

I am fairly new to sailing but not to the ocean and and water craft. I yearn to free myself from these earth bound shackles and sail the seven seas. I once lived abooard a 39 ft ketch in Vancouver Canada but never had the opportunity to sail her as she had no motor at the time and I believe it was not permitted to leave under sail from east of the Second Narrows Bridge, anyway I was not qulified nor capable at the time. I have recently taken ASA certifications and would very much like to meet people who love to sail as none of my friends or family have even the slightest interest and if I am to achieve my goals of circumnavigation ( actually just a life at Sea ) I fear that unless I can find likeminded people I will have to take up Solo Sailing.

Me too Bob~~Haven't looked in for some time; however, interested in your Post, Thank You~
There are some good deals on boats down here in the Caribbean this time of year. Many are hauling out for the summer & returning north, so willing to sell & avoid storage costs through Hurricane Season~~
When you've sold & ready to buy anew, I'd be interested in helping you evaluate & survey a new vessel~!
I'm sure we would do a better job than the so called professional Surveyors~?
Good Luck~~~~

The ultimate pirate weapon for yachts- the laser beam

If you can afford it, there is a new anti-piracy measure out which will temporarily blind a troupe of pirates so badly it will render them helpless. It is military grade, and the latest security technology available to wealthy yacht owners afraid of pirate attacks.

The 'SeaLase' laser, similar to weapons used for crowd control in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. military, has a range of four kilometers and becomes harder to look at the closer an attacker comes.

At a distance of one kilometre, attackers develop strong nausea and can no longer see, according to Lasersec Systems, the Finnish company that developed the lasers for commercial use.

'We don't have guns, so we need non-lethal systems to defend yachts,' Lasersec CEO Scott Buchter told a CNN reporter.

Buchter, who recently launched the $104,000 multi-colored laser at Monaco Yacht Show, says the loss of eyesight the laser inflicts is only temporary and that no permanent damage is inflicted.

Hi-tech military-grade security systems like SeaLase have become increasingly popular with superyacht owners looking to protect multi-millon dollar yachts on the open seas.

Pirate attacks on ships and yachts in dangerous waters like the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia -- the main maritime link between Europe and Asia have spawned the inventions.

Because law regarding the use of deadly force on ships is ambiguous in some countries and the transport of guns is illegal in most international waters -- yacht crews favor the use of non-lethal weapons for security. This has fueled the recent market boom for weapons like SeaLase, according to Buchter.

WELCOME !!

Terje
Porsgrunn, Telemark Norway

Please post and introduce yourself !!

kayakingbear has just posted a new topic entitled "Need Crew Fairly Soon - Please Read Carefully" in forum "YACHTS LOOKING FOR CREW.".

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Departing towards end of April from Juneau, Alaska on 27' Albin Family Cruiser with aft quarters for 5-6 months this summer exploring the Inside Passage on a planned route. This is a one Captain one crew vessel. There is no charge towards you or any daily expenses unless you want to buy souvenirs when we go through small communities. That is up to you. Read below for all the details...


Want to see an intimate view of SE ALASKA?

This is what I do. I cover 20-40 nautical miles a day cruising and circumnavigating the islands while I photograph and document. While the weather is rarely full storms, it is Alaska, so there are days that are misty and rainy and little sun. But summers are great and this pocket cruiser can go into most bays and coves.

When the sun comes out and everything is absolutely beautiful - you can get a sun burn. This is kinda like a boat working for the Discovery Channel cruising intimately the Inside Passage. Their are separate crew quarters on this vessel. But this is no cruise ship. Space is limited. So do not expect daily showers, expresso machines, or special diets. We eat well, albeit a lot of dehydrated Mountain House food.

There are two kayaks on board, a dinghy, and heat.

I can teach:

-kayaking
-photography
-videography
-navigation
-small boat handling
-deckhand work
-maintenance
-backcountry skills.

You will be my second hands, doing some deckhand work, some wheel watches, helping with the kayaks and tender, and seeing some of the most scenic remote and pristine areas of Alaska.

We will see:

-brown, black, and grizzly bears
-sea lions
-harbor seals
-possibly orcas
-humback whales
-eagles
-possibly porcupines, wolves, and wild cats
-scenics and sunsets
-glaciers and ice
-waterfalls and clear streams, lakes, and muskeg

The boat is an Albin Family Cruiser with aft quarters for you. I will be forward in the V Berth. It is 28 foot, single screw and able to handle the seas we get into. The boat is not a speed boat. We travel around 5knts average. We see everything and hang close to shore and cliffs and glaciers.

This is for someone who wants to really get hands on boating experience, with deckhand work, and learn how to handle a boat. You will learn if you do not already know.

About me:

-laid back but do run a tight ship. Safety of crew and vessel and gear come first.

-do not drink. Do smoke so if you do smoke cigarettes, ok. But we do not fling butts into water. Nor on land. WE pack out all we take in.

-small in stature, five six. Fit and know these waters and have more kayak and sea time for this type work than most. Well experienced. Though human, pretty easy going. But understand, there is still a captain/crew relationship. Otherwise, not looking for a relationship. Strictly platonic or work/crew. But we will meet so many from all over the world on our travels, you can network.

-love movies and music so both are on board, books available in small library mostly about Travel. Not much for country music, grew up in Texas, enough is enough already... LOL.

-honest, dependable, and as Captain, always thinking of crew first.

I became a premium member today for one last go round to gather emails of all interested. Will find the right candidate and we will be in Juneau by mid April and on the water for yet another great year to really experience remote incredible beauty and sightings and meet wonderful people.

To all, have a perfect summer.
What do I expect of the crew aboard this boat:

I need someone who is either somewhat experienced, or knows they can be at sea for a length of time living on the boat, anchoring in coves, exploring by either kayak or dinghy, and can be my second set of hands when needed. I do most wheel watches but you will help. I can teach kayaking, photography, navigation, deckhand work as necessary on this vessel, etc...

I am pretty easy going and want you to know you will have your own quarters. This boat is a 28' Albin Family Cruiser. I have enclosed the center cockpit. I have two kayaks on board, a motorized dinghy, full confidence in the vessel, and years of experience. I expect a professional crew, that does not need to party every time we hit a port. I expect to be able to work within a captain/crew relationship though this will be pretty relaxed. I do smoke. So if you are allergic to cigarettes, then this won't work for you, even though I do not chain smoke.

I ask that you be:

-willing to learn and do the duties as necessary on this vessel. Every vessel has it's own way of running things even if similar to another.
-able to handle sea conditions and time on sea
-learn to do small wheel watches
-able to perform deckhand duties as this vessel requires
-no drinking or drugs on board, some social drinking when at port is ok
-truthful, and do not make yourself out to be more than you are. I just need to know what you do know and what you should learn.
-able to fulfill season which concludes in late Sept

For the person hired, I will tip out at the end. So you will leave the boat with some money in hand. Probably around 2k. But this is to get you to the next destination.

I provide air fare to and from Seattle, Wa as long as you stay thru the season.

If you have contacted me and have not heard from me, then I was probably conversing with a more suitable candidate. Feel free to nag. Feel free to say NO if I contact you. Look, we are all looking for the right fit, for both the boat and the crew.

This is an incredible opportunity for some but maybe not exotic enough for others. I do understand that...it isn't the BVI or some warm tropical isle.



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How much a life? US$1.6 million? Rescue authorities tell

'Sole survivor Nick Schuyler clung to the upturned boat for 46 hours - they had no EPIRB on board' .
The US Coast Guard spent $1.6 million searching for four men lost in the Gulf of Mexico last month when their boat capsized on a boating trip. The men did not have an EPIRB on board.

The Coast Guard was quoted as saying the three-day search over more than 20,000 square miles of water required 230 combined hours of Coast Guard aircraft and boats.

Rescuers found one of the men, Nick Schuyler, alive and clinging to a capsized fishing boat, where he had stayed for 46 hours. His friends, Corey Smith of the Detroit Lions, Marquis Cooper of the Oakland Raiders and Will Bleakley have not been found and are presumed dead.

Two days before Marquis Cooper took the trip with three friends in Florida Gulf Coast waters, a friend urged him to buy a life-saving device used to locate boats in distress.

Cooper hadn't heard of the gadget, an emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB). And he didn't purchase one before his excursion on Saturday.

The Coast Guard never received a distress signal from Cooper's 21-foot fishing boat.

His friend Clay Eavenson told him during a different fishing outing two days before the accident that he should get an EPIRB, which transmits radio signals and GPS coordinates that rescue crews can use to find boats in trouble.

The devices cost between $400 and $1,400 and can self-activate when boats tip over. Cooper agreed that he should have one — but didn't follow through before setting off Saturday. Eavenson had been invited to go with the four, but declined, according to the paper.

'The thing I want to come out of this is people need to become aware,' Eavenson said. 'He was not aware of what one was, and he would have had one had he known.

'He told me he was going to go buy one. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of people that do what Marquis did without knowing what is available.'

The lone survivor said two of those lost gave up after hours in the frigid water and 'took off their life-jackets and drifted away'.

After Cooper, 26, and Corey Smith, 29, were carried away, Bleakley and Schuyler hung on until morning — but then Bleakley decided to swim to get help when he thought he saw a distant light, the paper said.

He, too, took his life vest off, 24-year-old Schuyler told the families.

'I think he was delusional to think he could swim someplace,' Will's father Bob Bleakley was quoted by The Times as saying.

Coast Guard officials also commented that the boaters were not carrying special emergency radio beacons to pinpoint their location. Such devices, the officials say, can help narrow search efforts and lower the cost.

by BW Roundup 1:54 AM Wed 11 Mar 2009

Good day everyone,
crewsinbvi@yahoogroups.com on behalf of daniel duggan-jones (danieldugganjones@yahoo.com)
Sent: March 11, 2009 7:41:12 PM

I will be doing an Atlantic crossing in may to the azores and then on to Palma de Mallorca. The boat is a beneteau 473 and is in the works of getting ready in terms of safety equipment and all else to ensure a successful journey. (After all this is the only worry.) We are looking for some crew preferably mile builders or people simply looking to get across. Please feel free to contact me at any time. my cell number is +1 869 764 5895

thanks.
Regards Daniel

slyham has just posted a new topic entitled "Transat Via Ns, Nl, Greenland, Iceland To Uk" in forum "YACHTS LOOKING FOR CREW.".

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I?m looking for one or two crewmates to join me for a summer cruise of the Nova Scotia and Newfoundland coasts and hopefully followed by stops at Greenland, Iceland, & Ireland and/or UK prior to sailing to the Caribbean for the winter. My sloop, a Warwick 42, has been around the world 1.5 times (although not with me). I am a 66 year old retired engineer who would like some more muscle and enthusiasm to assist me. Would like someone with some of the following qualifications: ocean sailing experience, non-smoker, and enjoys cooking. Will provide return airfare from St Johns, NL or UK if necessary. Share food/drink expenses after initial stock is depleted. Departure around the 1 June from Groton, CT. Will email additional owner/boat bio data upon request.
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yachtrat has just posted a new topic entitled "Atlantic Crossing Bvi To Med" in forum "YACHTS LOOKING FOR CREW.".

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crew needed to deliver a leopard 46 cat from bvi to turkey leaving mid april. interested crew to please contact richard at yachtrat@gmail.com for more details.

J3rry has just posted a new topic entitled "Flying Via Usa" in forum "YACHTS LOOKING FOR CREW.".

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OK, i'm flying to Grenada (from Scotland) to meet up with my Skipper and Boat.

From Glasgow, i decided to fly to Florida, then Miami, then Grenada. . . . . . simple

Here's my list of documentation

1 UK Passport
2 record of my USA visa Waiver acceptance
3 flight ticket to Florida
4 Onward tickets to Miami, Jamaica, and Grenada
5 Letter from my skipper (Victor Luiz) to Grenadan authorities explaining i was joining his ship at St Georges, and would be sailing on eventually to Australia.

But its not enough ! ICTS at Glasgow refused to let me board until i'd bought a return ticket from USA !

Which I'll (hopefully) never use . . . . .

They view is that USA immigration wont let me in, without a return ticket, . . . and an onward ticket to Grenada isn't sufficient as USA deem Grenada to be an "adjacent territory".

Now if i had a seamans book, that would be ok, but a seamans book isnt appropriate for myself, as i'm not doing this on a paid/ proffesional basis.


This would really apply to anyone (not just British) flying via USA, . . . if you're intending leaving by any other route, (not a return flight) you'll have to provide rock - solid documentation . . . . i thought i had sufficient documentation, but i wasnt aware of this "adjacent territories" thing.

Can you imagine the international uproar if a US citizen were to be denied entry to the UK, . . . . because he was travelling onto France . . . ? which is after all an adjacent territory ? its beaurocratic and undemocratic however you dress it up, but thats my gripe, . . . my point really is, check all your required documentation, confer with your embassy, see a spirit medium, ask yer mum, whatever . . . . and keep print outs for everything.

Woof
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Fortunately does not apply to Canadians & I do posess a Seamans Discharge Book !!
I assume we're adjacent territory, as is Bermuda, Bahamas, and all the Caribbean, some Islands 1500 miles away ?
I have met many that have been returned to Europe and not permitted to continue their intended destinations in the Islands ?
Eventually travellers learn to bypass the US & that appears to be what the US is anticipating ?
Europe has worked hard to forge closer ties between the various sovereign countries to the stage that Passports are no longer required, Europeans can work in any country and have full access to health & welfare, etc. Surely this is the way to go ?
I'm fortunate to hold both Canadian & European Passports. Had I worked in the US longer I could have qualified for a US Passport also. Didn't need a Green Card either, so I have no personal beef.
But for some it makes them Mad !!!

Hello !!! What else is new ???
Perhaps the Speaker of the US House wanting to tax retirement & Investment Income at a higher rate to pay Benefits for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the US. That woman is Scary !!

Take a look at an interesting Site of Simpson's Bay here in Sint Maarten.
http://www.mapsxm.com/#/explore/simpson-bay/
All the white flecks are sailboats at anchor !

LETS GET SOMETHING GOING ON THIS SINGLES SAILING SITE !!!!!
Alan.

Hi from the Whitsundays Australia View Profile


Hi ........... Yes I'm an Aussie living in the Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia. I sail my yacht in local waters now, but have sailed off shore. I was introduced to this site by Alan who I met in Canada. It's great to talk to others who share the same passion for sailing!!!

Cheers Chrissie

crewsinbvi@yahoogroups.com

Crew member needed:


Looking for a 4th hand to crew 48 ft cat BVI to Annapolis.
Departure about 6th of March
Email Brian at: chartercatshamu@hotmail.com

BryanD has just posted a new topic entitled "Crew Wanted" in forum "YACHTS LOOKING FOR CREW.". ----------------------------------------------------------------------Boat size & type: .. Sail 43 foot racer/cruiserEmbark port: .. Hong KongEstimated departure (or join) date: .. MarchArrival port & ETA (or voyage details): .. 6 to 9 daysNumber of other crew aboard (Skipperplus): .. 3Crew qualifications required and duties: .. sailorsCost to join vessel and repatriation is paid by: .. OwnerEstimated equal-share contribution to food/drinks: (Per person, per day) = paid by owner Note: No contribution towards any other costs (fuel, propane, fees, marinas, etc.) is required from crew..---------------------------------------------------------------------- The topic can be found here: http://www.cruiserlog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11754

It's an Irwin 43 that I have Marie: Nice boats eh ?
There are many opportunities to sail at Crew Seekers International. A Free Site.
When you Join you can elect to receive emails of positions available or review the data base at the site.
Can also Post to the data base what you're looking for.

Next month you'll start to see boats returning from the Bahamas. Many pass through Florida and with the boats that have wintered in Florida there is a Flotilla heading north. Generally crewing opportunities present themselves.
The process reverses in the Fall.
There are also many positions from the Caribbean to NA or to almost any destination in the world.
Some are single handers looking for crew for passage making & many are cruising couples looking for a third watch keeper. Some couples like to sleep together, difficult with just two of you when underway ??
Good luck.

Alan.

BTW: You have a nice Photo on your Site! Why not use it for your Headshot ?