to go sailing?
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So, you want to go sailing?
ON a boat, crew are expected to help stand watch, steer, cook, change sails, pull up the anchor, scrape the bottom, clean the boat, share food costs.
Navigational skills, blue water experi ence and/or knowledge of a few basic knots will make a person more useful as crew, but the bottom line is personality and attitude. Most skip pers agree the ability to get along with others and a willingness to learn are more important than experience.
Between August and October, boats start moving out of the tropics and head south towards New Zealand or north to Hawaii. Check the yacht clubs in Tahiti, Pago Pago, Vava’u, Suva, Lautoka, Musket Cove, Port Vila and Noumea. In April and May, hundreds of yachts leave the ports of New Zealand and Australia northbound for a season in the tropics.