Sailors were a superstitious lot, not surprising given the risky nature of the job. They would spend months at sea at the mercy of high winds, rough seas and cutlass wielding pirates. To try and guarantee a safe passage many superstitions grew up on deck.
Here are some of the latest crewing posts from the Lovesail Crewing Section. We are not just a dating and friendship site. Members of Lovesail can post non-professional crewing opportunities on the site for fellow members’ interest.
This year the Sydney Hobart Race will be in its 69th year. As the name suggests this yacht race starts in Sydney Australia, on Boxing Day, and finishes some 630 nautical miles later in Hobart Tasmania.
Lovesail member Flushing has been kind enough to let us reproduce his cruising diary from last year, that was first published in East Coast Sailing in October 2012. He was fortunate enough to spend the two weeks around the Bank Holiday cruising the East coast in his deep keeled monohull accompanied by two trimarans. One hull good three hulls better.
The Transat Jacques Vabre race is a transatlantic yacht race that follows the old coffee trading route from France to Brazil.
Here are just some of the latest crewing opportunities that have been listed recently on Lovesail.com in the Crewing Section.
Back in April, I wrote about Ian and Wendy, two Lovesail members that met on the site, fell in love and got married (read their story here). Both very keen sailors they decided the best honeymoon they could have would be to sail around the world. Would this be the longest honeymoon in history? Here is an update of their trip so far…..the longest honeymoon continues…
Here is the list for all the Boat Jumbles around the UK. Unless otherwise stated the jumbles start at 10:00 am and run until around 3:00 pm. The list will continue to be updated as more dates are confirmed.