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Forum: General Cruising Forum 12-07-2011, 05:28 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,975
Posted By Frederic
1) With 4 kids and I like to have at least 1 crew...

1) With 4 kids and I like to have at least 1 crew member for ocean crossing, it's hard to go below 42' on a monohull, which would be 38' for a cat.

2) Long trip means significant load. The...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 12-07-2011, 04:31 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,975
Posted By Frederic
Avoiding boat loans, at all cost

just commitment to the adventure

To me, the only commitment I can see here is to reimburse a heavy monthly payments no matter what. This is a kind of bootstrap I'm trying to avoid because it...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 12-06-2011, 08:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,975
Posted By Frederic
Buyers market

The owner's point of view is well thought. But like you wrote; It is a buyers market at this time [...] sell it when you have completed your trip is indeed what concerns me: being a seller in a...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 12-06-2011, 03:13 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,975
Posted By Frederic
the car example

It's funny how people tend to use cars to explain everything. Besides, it makes the explanation more complex and longer than it really needs to be. In this case, "I figure the risks of losing an...
Forum: General Cruising Forum 12-06-2011, 05:07 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,975
Posted By Frederic
Renting a good catamaran for 1 year

Hi all,

Who knows where to go rent a good catamaran (Freydis49 for instance) to sail around the world for about a year? If this doesn't exist, why?

Thanks

Frederic
Forum: Cruising Crew Wanted 03-14-2011, 06:21 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 4,524
Posted By Frederic
Thanks everybody for responding to this ad so...

Thanks everybody for responding to this ad so quickly (by email).

I'm now closing this topic - at least will try to as soon as I submit this message - as we have already numerous well qualified...
Forum: Cruising Crew Wanted 03-14-2011, 01:58 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 4,524
Posted By Frederic
CREW VACANCY NOW FILLED! 14/03/11 - No more...

CREW VACANCY NOW FILLED! 14/03/11 - No more emails please.

Hi,

We are a French family with 2 kids (2,8) living in San Diego, speaking English and about to do a sailing trip in French...
Forum: Crewfinder Archives 03-14-2011, 01:36 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 40,059
Posted By Frederic
This is obviously way too much, unless the guy is...

This is obviously way too much, unless the guy is taking into account his boat amortization in the calculation of the cost.

But when it's about money, people quickly loose common sense: I had an...
Forum: Pets, Children & Guests 03-13-2011, 01:32 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 4,276
Posted By Frederic
Long Passage With - Lively - Kids

Hi,

The title says it all: while sailing with kids for weeks without seeing any land, how do you guys keep them - relatively - calm busy? Make sure they are safe without transforming the boat in a...
Forum: Regional Discussion Topics 03-12-2011, 10:10 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,947
Posted By Frederic
Has anybody been in the open ocean facing such a...

Has anybody been in the open ocean facing such a big wave? How it is like? Does it break or does it lift the boat? Would you use the floating anchor?

We have some friends who left Mexico a few...
Forum: Regional Discussions 03-12-2011, 10:04 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 26,675
Posted By Frederic
Hi whedlesky, You'll find plenty of...

Hi whedlesky,

You'll find plenty of sailboats going back to Europe en looking for crew members in this web site:

www.stw.fr these are mainly French people but most of them speak English.
...
Forum: Regional Discussions 03-12-2011, 09:49 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 8,307
Posted By Frederic
Hi duckwheat, We did St Martin - Trinidad in...

Hi duckwheat,

We did St Martin - Trinidad in the same amount of time so you'll have plenty to of time to discover. Watch out and put a defense or two for the locals coming to sell pineapples, coco...
Forum: Regional Discussions 03-12-2011, 09:25 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,308
Posted By Frederic
They didn't do that with us: we arrived in San...

They didn't do that with us: we arrived in San Diego, CA and the latest anti-fouling was done in Trinidad, so probably not very environment friendly.

They went inside the boat, looked at the big...
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