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Cavemansailor
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I'm still looking for crew for my sailboat. I ended up spending most the summer docked at the Corpus Christi Marina by myself. I met lots of other sailors (mostly older and retired, however), crewed in yacht races on 24 and 54 footers and spent the rest of my time sailing and netting mullet for income (on my last trip out I made $140 in 4 hours and am heading back out tomorrow for a week!).
Anyway, gettin pretty lonely, and I also REALLY need crew--to share the tasks of watchkeeping (vital in the Gulf with all the shipping traffic) steering, and most importantly, camaraderie.
I hauled the boat out last week to do a little work, but should have it back in Corpus in two weeks or so, where it would be awesome to sail in the Wednesday yacht races.
I plan to sail across the Atlantic as soon as hurricane season ends, with stops in Florida, the Caribbean, Azores, Morocco, Spain, Italy, and wherever else the wind takes me. The boat is small (about the size of those used in the Mini Transat) but much more seaworthy--small, self bailing cockpit, super thick solid hull, heavy-duty mast, foam flotation, self righting, and has lots of additional reinforcements that I have made. I have 2 jibs, a genoa and main and am going to make my own storm jib and trysail as soon as I get my hands on some dacron cloth. I have a solar-powered computer and GPS, and if that goes out (which it has before) I have a sextant and am pretty darned good with it.
I'll stock up on high-calorie canned and dried foods and water (contributions by crew appreciated but not necessary), plus, whenever we are close to shore, I can keep us well-fed with my cast net and crab traps.
Anyway, gettin pretty lonely, and I also REALLY need crew--to share the tasks of watchkeeping (vital in the Gulf with all the shipping traffic) steering, and most importantly, camaraderie.
I hauled the boat out last week to do a little work, but should have it back in Corpus in two weeks or so, where it would be awesome to sail in the Wednesday yacht races.
I plan to sail across the Atlantic as soon as hurricane season ends, with stops in Florida, the Caribbean, Azores, Morocco, Spain, Italy, and wherever else the wind takes me. The boat is small (about the size of those used in the Mini Transat) but much more seaworthy--small, self bailing cockpit, super thick solid hull, heavy-duty mast, foam flotation, self righting, and has lots of additional reinforcements that I have made. I have 2 jibs, a genoa and main and am going to make my own storm jib and trysail as soon as I get my hands on some dacron cloth. I have a solar-powered computer and GPS, and if that goes out (which it has before) I have a sextant and am pretty darned good with it.
I'll stock up on high-calorie canned and dried foods and water (contributions by crew appreciated but not necessary), plus, whenever we are close to shore, I can keep us well-fed with my cast net and crab traps.