How to Choose a Cruising Crew
by Jules Fredrick
Jun 15, 2017
4 minutes
My partner, Je , and I needed crew for a two- to three-week sail down the Mexican coast of Baja California on our new-tous Antares 44i catamaran, El Gato, so we put an ad in one of our local sailing publications. We received some promising letters of introduction, but thanks to social media, I was able to delve a little deeper.
For example, Bettina was a bikini-clad European bombshell whose motto was, “No clothes? No problem.” Delete. Dolph, a chain-smoking ex-military sergeant, “suggested” that he serve as co-captain. Alexa and Damien were allergic to dogs, could we just not bring them?
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