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My 12th sailing transat but first in a mono, Jeanneau 57 is 5m wide so nearly as wide as a cat but much more proper downwind rolling for the purists, albeit with in-mast furling so pah! possibly not proper sailing at all. Whatever.
Crew get their own flites to and from the boat and share in buying the food too. But they don't pay for any boats costs so it's not bad really - you just pay the extra costs of you being on board. I tried it once or twice with a fixed food costs but it tended to get a bit mad in the supermarket, hum. Generally, 3weeks food is gonna cost well, sorta 300quid innit, really? I think there'll be a lot more limited cooking on this boat than on a catamaran - wraps, perhaps pre-cooked things, and a whole load of sandwiches and more wraps, and chocolate and twixes and cereal. Not all mixed together except over the stern later I suppose. I reckon it'll be sensible planning to eat cheap food for the first few days, maybe?
Watch-wise it depends on how many we are. Two is quite nice and serene but potentially a bit exhausting. Three would be ok, so i suppose three-hours watches, mix it about. I imagine that there'll be a whole lot more hand-steering than a cat cos it's very good fun on a mono whereas rather dull and feedback-free on a cat, and rather mmm tactile on this boat with twin carbon helm wheels. Hey, and you can stop that fondling the other wheel while someone else is helming okay?
What else? Pretty relaxed gig really, altho I imagine that the Jacob's Cream Cracker Eating competition at about day 3 will be fairly intense. I won't be running a lemon-eating contest this time, nor any Jenga games nor egg-based buffoonery. Likewise the hide and seek is banned, along with homemade-surfboarding off the stern, frivolous mast climbing and fish-slapping games also not permitted, really.
Ok, I lied about it being very relaxed, cos of course there is loads of room for lots of sail trimming, poling out the genoa, poling out the stasail on the boom, and the possible appearance (Fedex permitting) apperance of a massive Parasailor.
I'm mainly looking for incredible pro sailors who fancy a laugh so I won't have to do too much, hah! Or er, okay, perhaps an amazing professional cook who wouldn't let the rest of us near the galley unsupervised, that was good. Or a racing sailor with 2 PhD's very welcome, or a diesel fitter with a wide repertoire of rubbish jokes also ideal, and/or electronics Raymarine support engineer who is keen to run away to sea instead of get beaten up in Las Palmas prior to the ARC might also be quite good . It's okay but not much of advantage if you have/haven't any RYA tickets at all, and that sextant stuff, yeah great but look, I've got a notched stick to check the North Star and by using it and lining it up with the chartplotter we can check our exact position.
It's not gonna work for couples cos the dynamic is weird, nor for very ancient and wannabe but ultimately unfit useless types, or if you absolutely need to call family at home every night on the satphone, nor for day sailors who always fancied doing a transat but haven't actually ever sailed at double digit speeds, or at night, or had all the sails up and then whammed the engines a bit to see if we can get 20 knots. Okay, we won't do that very much if at all, sorry, although we have done once or twice heheh. However, it's very awkward to deal with very scaredy types and much easier with yeehah loons, or even people who think that they're loons but ooer suddenly discover that they aren't quite that mad after all. Anyway look, there will be 3m or even 4 or 5m waves but they don't land on your head - we swoosh along ahead of them, or we have done all the previous times.
Anyways let me know, PM would be fine. After that last paragraph I'm sorta expecting hardly any replies but you never know. I kinda tempted to rip wannabe crew off the dock at LP cos it's worked rather well in the past, and I just love the obviously adventurous spirit that those hitch-sailors have already demonstrated by getting there in the first place.
Crew get their own flites to and from the boat and share in buying the food too. But they don't pay for any boats costs so it's not bad really - you just pay the extra costs of you being on board. I tried it once or twice with a fixed food costs but it tended to get a bit mad in the supermarket, hum. Generally, 3weeks food is gonna cost well, sorta 300quid innit, really? I think there'll be a lot more limited cooking on this boat than on a catamaran - wraps, perhaps pre-cooked things, and a whole load of sandwiches and more wraps, and chocolate and twixes and cereal. Not all mixed together except over the stern later I suppose. I reckon it'll be sensible planning to eat cheap food for the first few days, maybe?
Watch-wise it depends on how many we are. Two is quite nice and serene but potentially a bit exhausting. Three would be ok, so i suppose three-hours watches, mix it about. I imagine that there'll be a whole lot more hand-steering than a cat cos it's very good fun on a mono whereas rather dull and feedback-free on a cat, and rather mmm tactile on this boat with twin carbon helm wheels. Hey, and you can stop that fondling the other wheel while someone else is helming okay?
What else? Pretty relaxed gig really, altho I imagine that the Jacob's Cream Cracker Eating competition at about day 3 will be fairly intense. I won't be running a lemon-eating contest this time, nor any Jenga games nor egg-based buffoonery. Likewise the hide and seek is banned, along with homemade-surfboarding off the stern, frivolous mast climbing and fish-slapping games also not permitted, really.
Ok, I lied about it being very relaxed, cos of course there is loads of room for lots of sail trimming, poling out the genoa, poling out the stasail on the boom, and the possible appearance (Fedex permitting) apperance of a massive Parasailor.
I'm mainly looking for incredible pro sailors who fancy a laugh so I won't have to do too much, hah! Or er, okay, perhaps an amazing professional cook who wouldn't let the rest of us near the galley unsupervised, that was good. Or a racing sailor with 2 PhD's very welcome, or a diesel fitter with a wide repertoire of rubbish jokes also ideal, and/or electronics Raymarine support engineer who is keen to run away to sea instead of get beaten up in Las Palmas prior to the ARC might also be quite good . It's okay but not much of advantage if you have/haven't any RYA tickets at all, and that sextant stuff, yeah great but look, I've got a notched stick to check the North Star and by using it and lining it up with the chartplotter we can check our exact position.
It's not gonna work for couples cos the dynamic is weird, nor for very ancient and wannabe but ultimately unfit useless types, or if you absolutely need to call family at home every night on the satphone, nor for day sailors who always fancied doing a transat but haven't actually ever sailed at double digit speeds, or at night, or had all the sails up and then whammed the engines a bit to see if we can get 20 knots. Okay, we won't do that very much if at all, sorry, although we have done once or twice heheh. However, it's very awkward to deal with very scaredy types and much easier with yeehah loons, or even people who think that they're loons but ooer suddenly discover that they aren't quite that mad after all. Anyway look, there will be 3m or even 4 or 5m waves but they don't land on your head - we swoosh along ahead of them, or we have done all the previous times.
Anyways let me know, PM would be fine. After that last paragraph I'm sorta expecting hardly any replies but you never know. I kinda tempted to rip wannabe crew off the dock at LP cos it's worked rather well in the past, and I just love the obviously adventurous spirit that those hitch-sailors have already demonstrated by getting there in the first place.
