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Mojomo’s eighth transatlantic in four years will be ARC 2010. Anyone fancy a trip? Can take another one or two people. 2 friends sharing would be okay but probably not a couple – it’s all guys 40’s at the moment.
Shared expenses non-commercial boat - I pay for everything I would pay for if single-handing, you pay a share of food (likely 350-400 euros per person) and flights to/from the boat.
Other two crew includes very experienced race sailor/diver and a professional diesel fitter who also sails. We’ve done 11 transats between us so perhaps we can take not-so-experienced people along.
Mojomo is a Privilege 495, almost 50ft long, loads of safety gear, generator, watermaker, autopilot, all ARC safety gear and lots more. The trip will likely take around 15 days from Sunday November 21st to Rodney By in St Lucia. Crew should arrive at the boat on or around 15th November, and leave the boat within a couple of days of arriving st lucia.
So, we’re looking for interesting wannabees who can do their share of cooking, probably youngsters or young at heart. Write me an email to noteasytoremember at hotmail.com and tell me what you’d cook – yeah it’s shared cooking so every four days each person is “mum” and makes lunch and dinner. Maybe you’re a chef who wants to go sailing? We had that on one trip -amazing!
The boat is pretty speedy and we'l be looking to average almost 8knots and will often sail at over 10knots. So if you have loads of slow-sailing experience, this might not be for you. 6 knots is a nice sail but no good at all on a 50ft cat. It's likely that in squalls (short-lived weather systems near caribbean) the winds will go above 40knots and the boat will surf at instantenous speeds near twenty knots. For a non-sailor this is a dull 25mph. But for some who have sailed, it sounds like suicidal lunacy. Make sure you're ok about this - we won't slow down and we need the crew operational. If you've handsteered fast downwind, that's useful.
But other times the boat will be slow, and we're not in the racing division so we're allowed to use engines.
Finally you need to speak English well enough to understand things like “yeah, it’s ripped, stick the engine on while we have a think about it” and “cut the line yerv hooked a freaking shark!” and “woohoo, we surfed at 20.2 knots down that last wave” etc.
Shared expenses non-commercial boat - I pay for everything I would pay for if single-handing, you pay a share of food (likely 350-400 euros per person) and flights to/from the boat.
Other two crew includes very experienced race sailor/diver and a professional diesel fitter who also sails. We’ve done 11 transats between us so perhaps we can take not-so-experienced people along.
Mojomo is a Privilege 495, almost 50ft long, loads of safety gear, generator, watermaker, autopilot, all ARC safety gear and lots more. The trip will likely take around 15 days from Sunday November 21st to Rodney By in St Lucia. Crew should arrive at the boat on or around 15th November, and leave the boat within a couple of days of arriving st lucia.
So, we’re looking for interesting wannabees who can do their share of cooking, probably youngsters or young at heart. Write me an email to noteasytoremember at hotmail.com and tell me what you’d cook – yeah it’s shared cooking so every four days each person is “mum” and makes lunch and dinner. Maybe you’re a chef who wants to go sailing? We had that on one trip -amazing!
The boat is pretty speedy and we'l be looking to average almost 8knots and will often sail at over 10knots. So if you have loads of slow-sailing experience, this might not be for you. 6 knots is a nice sail but no good at all on a 50ft cat. It's likely that in squalls (short-lived weather systems near caribbean) the winds will go above 40knots and the boat will surf at instantenous speeds near twenty knots. For a non-sailor this is a dull 25mph. But for some who have sailed, it sounds like suicidal lunacy. Make sure you're ok about this - we won't slow down and we need the crew operational. If you've handsteered fast downwind, that's useful.
But other times the boat will be slow, and we're not in the racing division so we're allowed to use engines.
Finally you need to speak English well enough to understand things like “yeah, it’s ripped, stick the engine on while we have a think about it” and “cut the line yerv hooked a freaking shark!” and “woohoo, we surfed at 20.2 knots down that last wave” etc.
