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Conference unifix::sailing

Title:	SAILING
Notice:	Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference
Moderator:	UNIFIX::BERENS

Created:	Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2299
Total number of notes:	20724

1277.0. "crew wanted" by MSCSSE::BERENS (Alan Berens) Mon Jul 10 1989 12:41

I am looking for one or two crew to sail with me from Tenants Harbor, 
ME, to Marblehead, MA, on July 25th (a Tuesday). This is an approximately 
110 mile overnight passage. 

Obviously, one acquires offshore sailing experience by sailing offshore.
I remember rather clearly the considerable trepidation with which Julie 
and I made our first overnight and offshore passages and how little we
knew and how poorly prepared we were. In retrospect, it would have been
wiser to have crewed for someone with offshore experience and a properly
prepared boat before venturing off on our own. 

However, it isn't always easy to find someone to crew for on a offshore 
passage. So, I'd like to offer anyone who has not made an offshore or
overnight passage the chance to do so and especially anyone who owns a 
boat and would like a bit of experience before doing it on his/her own.
If you are interested, please send me mail briefly describing your
sailing experience. 

Oh yes, my boat is a Valiant 32 well-equipped (I think) for offshore 
sailing. I've sailed her to Maine numerous times, Nova Scotia, and 
Bermuda. 

Alan

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1277.1	Crew available	DASXPS::TMURPHY		`Mon Jul 10 1989 13:55`	15
	I would be interested in this trip, altough I'm not sure that I have the experience you may be interested in. I have just completed the Learn to Sail course at the Boston Harbor Sailing Club and I am interested in getting some more experience before continuing with the club' s Advanced and Inboard courses. If we can't make the July 25 th trip, I'd like to crew with you on another occasion. Thanks Tim
1277.2	100nm Sail	MEMORY::LAZGIN		`Mon Jul 10 1989 18:25`	10
	I might be interested in helping you. I've sailed a 40 foot catamaran from St. Tropez, France to the Island of Corsica, which is about 100 nm off the coast of France. Of course, it only took me about 8 hrs. (overnight) because the 40' Catamaran can make good 12knots!! Frank
1277.3	what mistakes	NOVA::EASTLAND		`Mon Jul 10 1989 18:46`	5
	re .0 what kinds of mistakes did you make. interested
1277.4	crew available	CECV03::MONACO		`Tue Jul 11 1989 17:15`	14
	Alan, We might be interested in joining your trip. I'm learning to sail at Community Boating in Boston and have taken a week-long Windjammer trip out of Maine. I have a friend who would like very much to learn to sail and might also be interested. If we can't join you this time, how about your next trip? Thanx, Carol and Sharon
1277.5	Love to, If I can get away	EDCS::KITA	MADD DOGG	`Tue Jul 11 1989 20:21`	16
	I am interested - providing I can break away from the project for a day. I own a C&C 33 - this is the third season. I have a reasonable amount of sailing experience, especially the kind where I'm skipper with shorthanded or inexperienced crew. We've sailed for weekend and week-long trips, but not through the night. Your comment hit home with respect to crewing to find out what it's all about before doing overnight sailing of my own. I'd be interested in bringing my wife - she being my first mate as well as my first mate. She is less experienced than I but the same comment applies, since we do all our sailing together. If you are interested, I'm at DTN 297-5210; MONET::KITA, MR04-3 E17, and I will tune back in here a little later. Jeff.
1277.6	crew has been assembled	MSCSSE::BERENS	Alan Berens	`Fri Jul 14 1989 09:48`	22
	I have been overwhelmed with responses to my note looking for crew. Together we'd be a crew big enough to take a square rigger around Cape Horn (or a maxi around the buoys). I'd like to thank you all for your interest. Perhaps in the future we'll be able to sail together. Regards, Alan PS To answer a question from one of you ..... Yes, the prevailing winds are SW, which potentially makes the trip a beat to weather. However, only once in the many times we've made the passage has the wind been on the bow the entire trip. Often the wind veers westerly at night and we're able to sail the rhumb line. Last September we left New Harbor, ME, on starboard tack with a southerly wind and the windvane steering. As we rounded Seguin Island the wind began to go west. By the time the wind finally died off Cape Ann we were sailing along the rhumb line without having tacked even once and without having touched the tiller. Rather a nice trip, actually, though a mite boring. Others have been a little less so.