Crew Wanted: NC to bahamas, spend the winter and back end feb, 55 foot ketch

[awab]

Hello,
This winter my wife cannot come to the boat-only over the holidays in dez/jan.
I am just refitting OZMA a nice ferrocement boat in hampstead,nc.
When the weather gets to cold I will sail AWAB, the boat I own since 12 years to the Bahamas to spend some time to survive the winter.
I guess my departure will be beginning dez. I plan to go south as fast as possible.
The boat is quite comfortable. Awab is build in 1958 by Sparkman & Stephan's.
She is ketch rigged/ hull wood. Big pilothouse. Autopilot/ Radar etc
I am German in my fifties. I am cruising since 10 years every winter for min 6 month. Been most of this time more south. Venezuela/ Columbia/panama.
I can move this thing easy by myself but sharing makes more fun.
If you have time and perhaps fun to help me also with some maintenance
give me an email to
temp@awab.net

I am on a cruising budget and we would share expenses.

info to OZMA under
Flickr: ferrocementboatozma's Photostream
info to AWAB under
awab sailing charter diving,los roques,tortugas,isla margareta,caribbean dream

[dsb1111]

Hi there,

I am a female with plenty of sailing experience. I crewed from Fort Lauderdale to England in 1987. Actually, I started out on a boat from Ft. Lauderdale to Spain, but we were lost at sea for 15 days (I have stories) so I jumped ship in Bermuda and got on a great boat for a slick run to the Azores and then England. I have run out of water, food and lived through a really rough north Atlantic storm (my job was to run the boomed out jib into a cleat on the foredeck in forty foot swells). I have also sailed through Indonesia and the Greek Islands. Scariest of all of course were the weekend sails in New York harbor, where every 4th of July, someone T-bones another guy, or ends up as a hood ornament on a cruise ship.

I spent last winter on land in Mexico. I basically stayed in a screened in palapa, with an attached tent. After years in suburbia, I did that trip as a test, to see if I could still manage. I could. I drove from New Jersey to Mexico...alone...wouldn't try that again...and ended up looking after a friend's dogs on a very isolated piece of beach near Mahuhaul, close to the southernmost part of North America. I also travelled to Belize and Cuba.

I am well travelled, a good cook and a great storyteller. I am active and love SCUBA. Broke a knee skiing two years ago and have no interest in doing that again. I have been trying to sell my house and am sick of living in a museum, while I wait for a buyer.

Let me know if you want me to contact you directly.

[bvarney]

Hello, I am seeking sea experience,to support my desire to purchase my own sailboat. I have some sailing/sea time,however,that was years ago,and before gps,so i am excited to learn. I am retired,in great health,active,good with any tool[worked with my hands my whole life],P.A.D.I. scuba cirt.,and know how to use a spear gun to get dinner. I can not meet up until mid Jan./2014,and can stay any length of time after that.I would really love to help with your maint.issues as well during the trip.Thank you for your consideration..Bruce

[awab]

hello,
I want to say thank you to all the people which have contacted me.
Awab is ready to sail again and will be back in the water in some days.
I found the crew I needed thanks to this forum.
all the best
peter