Most yachts are not like planes who depart from one place and arrive at another place via a direct route at any time of the year. You're unlikely to find one particular yacht who leaves from one point and arrives at another destination exactly to your preference.

So to sail from Europe to South America, for example, you may need to go on 3 to 5 different yachts via different routes and it could take many months overall with several weeks in between just waiting for favourable weather patterns.

This is why on Find a Crew you can only search for boats departing from a particular place or heading to a particular destination, but not both, because most origin and destination combinations would rarely return a result.

In the table below you'll find some common world routes that are sailed during the particular seasons. There is always the exception to the rule where some yachts travel during unfavourable seasons. It's not recommended for a novice sailor to join such a yacht, because not only can it be very dangerous but also very unpleasant for many days, if not weeks, in a row.