CREW LIST 2006 I / WE WANT TO CREW ON A CRUISING BOAT
I AM / WE ARE LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW NAME(S):__________________________________________ AGE(S):_________ SEX:______ PHONE:(____)___________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE: _______________ __________________________________________________
WHERE AND WHEN: MY/OUR BOAT IS A:__________________________________ I/WE PLAN TO SAIL TO:______________________________ ON OR ABOUT (DATE):______________________________
MY / OUR IDEAL CREW WILL: (Check as many as apply) 1)____ Be willing to share basic expenses such as food and fuel 2)____ Be willing to bust butt preparing the boat 3)____ Have more desire than experience 4)____ Have lots of ocean experience 5)____ Know more about offshore navigation than just pushing buttons on the GPS 6)____ Have mechanical skills for the engine, refrigeration, etc. 7)____ Have language skills: a) Spanish, b) Other:___________ 8)____ Other skills (woodworking, scuba, etc.)______________ 9)____ Be unattached and unopposed to the possibility of a friendship blossoming 10)____ Look good in a bikini/speedo/birthday suit 11)____ Understand and appreciate Jim Carrey’s humor Mail completed form and $7 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.
Don’t artificially inflate your experience or skill level. It’s bad karma, for one, and — on a racing boat especially — it will come back to bite you. We don’t mind sailing with BS’ers, as long as they’re honest ones. • Along the same vein, little or no experience is not always a disadvantage. If you’re looking for a boat on which to crew, you newbies out there have as good a chance — okay, almost as good — as more experienced hands. If the truth be told, you might even have an advantage over more experienced folks in some cases. Why? Experienced people are more likely to take issue with an owner about the set of the sails, best way to anchor and so on. Novice hands, however, are happy to do things just the way the skipper teaches them. Hey, it is his (or her) boat. • Be realistic about the commitment. Sailing takes time. Even a simple daysail can end well after dark by the time the boat gets put away — the ‘time flies when you’re having fun’ principle Page 152 •
Latitude 38
• January, 2006
NAME(S):__________________________________________ AGE(S)________SEX:______ PHONE: (_____)____________ CONTACT IF DIFFERENT THAN PHONE:________________ __________________________________________________
SAILING EXPERIENCE: 1)____ None, but I’ll do anything within reason for the chance. I understand that from time to time I’ll probably get cold, seasick, mad at the owner and wish like hell I was anywhere but on the boat. I’m still game 2)____ Some. At least a) 5, b) 10, c) 20 sails on the Bay or equivalent while being active and suffering the normal cuts, bruises and hollering 3)____ Moderate. Several years active crewing on the Bay or equivalent, or at least one long coastal or trans-ocean trip 4)____ Lots. Several long ocean passages
I / WE WANT TO CRUISE: (check as many as apply) 8)____ Caribbean 1)____ SF Bay and/or Delta 9)____ Mediterranean 2)____ Monterey Bay 10)____ Anywhere warm ia Californ n 3)____ Souther 11) Other destination(s): 4)____ Mexico this fall/winter c Pacifi South and/or 5)____ Hawaii 6)____ Pacific Northwest or Alaska 7)____ Antarctica
I / WE CAN OFFER: (check as many as apply) 1)____ At least a month of shared expenses 2)____ Mechanical skills: engine, electronics, refrigeration, etc. 3)____ Elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and upkeep 4)____ Cooking and cleaning skills 5)____ Language skills — I’m reasonably conversant in a) Spanish; b) Other(s):_________________________ 6)____ Ornamental skills — I look good in a bikini/speedo 7)____ Personality skills — I don’t get pissed when awakened at 3 in the morning and can maintain a sense of humor in most situations 8)____ Other skill(s):__________________________________ Mail completed form and $7 to: Latitude 38, Attn: Cruising Crew List, 15 Locust Ave.,Mill Valley, CA 94941 by MARCH 15, 2006.
in action. Cruising and chartering are obviously 24-hour-a-day pursuits, but perhaps the most time-intensive type of sailing out there is racing. Tons of behind-the-scenes work goes on in any successful racing campaign, and only a portion of it takes place out on the race course. Racing campaigns require after-hours work at the dock, on the trailer or in the yard. And sometimes on-the-water practice days. As part of the crew, you’ll likely
