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since Nov 2018
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viewed 1,132 times
since Nov 2018
last sign in 1 day ago
Owner & Captain/Skipper - always or often aboard
SV - Sailing Vessel, 13.5 m (44 ft), sail, catamaran, Lagoon 440

Availability ready now

Embark (Boarding)
ready now to embark anytime
Duration
preferably for at least 3 months and for any duration onwards
Disembark
flexible, no specific date

Locations

 Boarding location
Mexicocrewscene.com - Campeche - visible to Crew members only
Your boarding area is ? within this vessel's boarding location
and the Crew is preferably within 500 nm • 926 km • 575 mi
Your current location is around ? away from this location
 Destination planned to take the vessel next
Cayman Islandscrewscene.com - Grand Cayman Island - visible to Crew members only
this destination is around 961 km from the boarding location
 My current location where I'm in person
Mexicocrewscene.com - same as boarding location
 Home Port of Registry (registered vessel)
US Virgin Islandscrewscene.com - Saint Croix - visible to Premium Crew

Itineraries

An itinerary is a route divided into legs showing the planned locations and dates of the main stopovers from the start (initial departure) to the end (final arrival), which is the destination of the vessel's journey (also called voyage, trip, torn, or expedition).

Each leg has a departure and an arrival date and location. It may also have additional waypoints in between, which might be stopping points or course change points.

Accuracy of itineraries

Itineraries for vessels at sea are never precise! We use three accuracy levels for the planning status to avoid confusion about what is likely to happen or not:

  • Pending (not accurate) – initial idea, possibilities
  • Preliminary (kinda accurate) – changes may still apply
  • Planned (fairly accurate) – this is what's meant to happen
Days vs Nights

The duration of an itinerary is counted in days (start to end date) and the leg in nights (departure to arrival date). That is because you may arrive on a Monday and leave on a Tuesday. Therefore, there can be confusion if you were there for one or two days, but it would strictly count as one night without any confusion.

Therefore, you would say you went on a 14-day holiday or trip (the itinerary) and spent 13 nights on all your legs combined, for example.

Planning vs Estimates

There is also an important distinction between planning (what's the intention) and estimating (what's calculated). A time of arrival is always an estimate as a calculation is required; that's why it is called ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival).

You can't plan to leave San Francisco and arrive in Hawaii 10 minutes later, regardless of how desperate your intention is. If you intend to arrive in Hawaii by a certain date and estimate 10 days for the journey, then you can plan to leave San Francisco 12 to 15 days before. Therefore, your departure date is planned (what's the intention), and the arrival is still an estimate (what's calculated based on season, winds, currents, and many other factors). Plans can change due to weather, government requirements, breakdowns, delays, etc.

Tips for planning an itinerary

The following tips are worth noting to manage your itinerary and maintain an excellent overview:

  • 1) Name your itinerary with a short and clear title, such as 2024 Antarctic Expedition or 2024 Italy Family Torn, that is descriptive, easy to remember, and simple to refer to in conversations.
  • 2) You can set your itinerary's visibility to private while planning it, share it with only those you contact, or share it with anyone who views your profile.
  • 3) Next, add each leg of the significant stopovers by date and location.
  • 4) Then, keep updating each leg as required.

Be realistic and mindful when planning an itinerary. People will arrange their timing and life around it, taking time off work, booking flights, arranging accommodation, etc. It's crucial to let the crew know how accurate they can expect the itinerary to be.

2024–2025

Preliminary (kinda accurate)

1 Leg
494 nm
31 days
Available: 2 of 2 Crew positions
Start2024 Dec 15 Sun
End2025 Jan 15 Wed

Leg 1

494 nm31 nights
Available: 2 of 2 Crew positions
Depart 2024 Dec 15 Sun
Arrive 2025 Jan 15 Wed
December 2024
Cancun -> Florida -> Bahamas
*Jan 2025*
Bahamas
*Feb 2025*
Turks and Caicos Islands
*March 2025*
Dominican Republic
*April 2025*
Puerto Rico
BVI and USVI
*May 2025*
Anguilla
St Kitts and Nevis
*June 2025*
Antingua and Barbuda
Montserrat
*July 2025*
Guadaloupe
Dominica
*August 2025*
Martinique
St Lucia
*September 2025*
St Vincent and the Grenadines
*October 2025*
Barbados
*November 2025*
Grenada
After that ????
End of Itinerary

Vessel

L5   native
speaking natively like a local without a noticeable foreign accent
L4   fluent
speaking fluently with an extensive vocabulary, but with a foreign accent
L3   competent
speaking competently with a solid vocabulary on almost any topic
L2   elementary
speaking enough to get by, but may get lost in a conversation
L1   learning
not speaking the language, but learned enough to say simple sentences
L0   not proficient
may know a few words, but cannot form sentences or ask questions
Languages spoken aboard
native English, Spanish
learning Italian, German
Vessel type, make and model
SV Sailing Vessel, Lagoon 440
Vessel year
2008 built, and most recent major refit completed in 2024
Vessel main propulsion
sail
Vessel hull type
catamaran
Vessel length
13.5 metres (44 ft)
Vessel weight (displacement)
12 tonnes (26,460 lb)
Crew & guests aboard
usually 2 people aboard
Journey
day/weekend trips, cruising: Offshore or cruising

Crew

Team request
position for individuals or teams
Nationality of crew
anyone
Gender of crew
anyone
Age of crew
preferably over 21 years of age
Height of crew
any
Weight of crew
any

Lifestyle

Eating
Preferably crew with an unrestricted diet and aboard any or no specific diet is fine
Drinking
Preferably non-drinkers and aboard there is preferably no drinking
Smoking
Only strict non-smokers and aboard there is strictly no smoking

Experience

Coastal/Ocean sea time
none required
Coastal/Ocean sea miles
none required

Position

Recreational    generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses

positions available
preferably for
 Crew   any experience
unpaid
crew is not expecting to be paid

Dear Shipmates

Introduction

We’ve been a polyamorous couple for 5 years and have a great relationship. He has more experience, but she has had some 1:1 training this year with a real teacher.

There is a fair amount of nudity on the boat so if that offends thee, we are not for you. We'd love to go to Cuba but the lack of Starlink and insurance prohibitions make that impossible at the time.

If you are a digital nomad, that could work out just fine.

She’s a profesora and has a podcast and website that she works on. He works for a startup so maybe spends too much time online :-(. Both of us are OK with silence, we don’t feel like we have to constantly talk because the silence is going to devour us. If you can’t stand the silence, we might not be able to stand you. That said, we enjoy good conversations, so it’s not like we don’t enjoy engaging with others.

She speaks Chinese and is fluent in Spanish and English, and amazingly can understand a lot of Italian. He’s a stupid Gringo that struggles with anything that is not English but he tries with Spanish, Italian and a tiny bit German.

We will be setting sail with new sails, new rigging, new electronics and solar we have been enjoying for the last year.

About the boat, the plans, and current crew

comfortablevery safevessel is survey certifiedshare experiencevisit remote placesseek adventurelearn a languagelive off the gridmulticultural

Polyamorous couple Heading for the Eastern Caribbean at the end of Hurricane Season 2024. Leaving Campeche Mexico with new bottom paint in Progreso, on to Cancun for a weather window and then off toward the Bahamas or Cayman => Jamaica => Dominican Republic (north or south of Cuba due to weather and the current rash of murders in the bahamas).

Looking for some moderately experienced crew to share the sail and you could hang around with us until we put the boat on the Hard in Grenada during Hurricane season (if we do that). We will be spending this summer at an island 80 miles from Campeche for almost all the summer, would be a good time to get to know each other and determine suitability. We enjoy the sea, we don’t race, we don’t sail when the weather is threatening. We do however have quite a few creature comforts, Air Fryer, Induction cooktop, water maker, ginormous fridge, lithium batteries and LOT of solar power, washing machine, scuba compressor, so we aren’t slumming it.

He doesn’t drink at all, she drinks wine occasionally but we don’t stock it on board, we buy a bottle and it will last her a couple of weeks. Not opposed to you drinking, but we are opposed to you getting drunk.

Don’t have much use for people that prefer to be stoned all the time. While they are funny to watch (sometimes) they in general are pretty dull.

We don’t call it a yacht because that seems pretentious and we are anything but pretentious.

What is expected of the crew

diligenteasy-goingenthusiasticfriendlyrespectfulskilledtrustworthyconfident swimmerrarely/unlikely seasickgood communicatortravel light (little luggage)LGBTIQA+ respectfulopen mindedsense of humorcan pay own expensesenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaningcan follow orderswill not bring a bicyclewill not bring a petharmony

We are pretty easy to get along with, and expect the same. Let's sail and have a good time, with good food and good conversation. If you are a big Trump fan, don't bother contacting us. If you have to be the center of attention every minute, it’s not going to work out.

I will state again that there is a lot of nudity on the boat. Male and Female and if you aren’t OK with that, then don’t bother. Seriously. You can wear clothes, I don’t care, but I’m only going to do it for protection from the sun and if it gets cold.

Also if you think Trump is an acceptable president, don't bother contacting us.

If you are an Argentinian that knows how to cook meat, you have a big leg up on everyone else :-)

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