Ahoy!
Are you looking for crew to sail to the
Caribbean from the Canary Islands via
Cape Verde beginning of January?
We are Perrine (33) and Nate (29) from
France and
California and we just touched ground in La Graciosa from Galicia via
Madeira. We had to tack on the last leg so it took us over 1000 nm.
In 2015, Perrine decided to leave the rat
race and soon sail across the Atlantic. Since then she's helped restoring a wooden sailing ship in Copenhagen for 2 months, joined an amazing
skipper in
New Zealand who takes teenagers in the wilderness to connect with their
environment (met Nate while hiking alone for a week in between two trips), kept sailing in
French Polynesia.
She's at sea since July and has crewed with 4 different captains in the
Baltic,
Mediterranean, Atlantic and logged over 4000 nm in 5 months.
She faced a
Captain over board situation on her second day with a Swedish
captain... left alone with both
sails up, she got him back onboard and learnt a lot from the experience!
Nate is joining the dream and is a great asset to any crew since he's a jack of all trades. On the second day of our last
navigation, the
spinnaker pole broke, the captain was upset but allowed Nate to access the tools (lol) and an hour later, it was fixed!
He got the main knots within 10 minutes, he doesn't suffer seasickness... His dad did a lot of
racing and built a
trimaran with
school buddies when in high
school and sailed it from
San Francisco to the
Gulf of Mexico so maybe it's in his blood!
We both love adventure, outdoors, visiting
remote places, slow travel, people and contributing.
We are easy going and easy to get along with.
Let's meet and see how we feel about sharing the voyage!
Last FindaCrew review for Perrine:
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Perrine sailed with me and one other crew
member on my yacht Sputnik from
Gibraltar to Menorca from 17/9/17 - 12/10/17. The total trip distance was 750nm, 19 days sailing including several over nite passages during which time she was in sole charge while on her watch. Perrine quickly learned and became proficient in all aspects of running the yacht: hoisting and stowing
sails, sailing on all points of the
wind, tacking, gybing, operating the
engine, using the
navigation,
autopilot,
AIS and
VHF,
mooring and
anchoring. Although Perrine discovered sailing quite recently, she is clearly a natural and loves being at sea. She was always positive, attentive, ready for action and focused on the task at hand.
Her language skills (English, French, Spanish, German) and organizing skills were invaluable in helping with authorities, permits,
provisioning etc.
She also has great culinary skills, loves
cooking good
food yet drinks nothing but
water.
Perrine has an warm, engaging and confident personality, highly developed interpersonal skills combined with a great sense of humour / joie de vivre which very positively contributed to the atmosphere on board. She is delightful to spend time with, has a habit of bursting into song at any time, sharing stories, and
lighting up the lives of everyone around her. Perrine is well educated, well travelled and possesses a wisdom beyond her years. She leaves no footprint on the
environment but but makes a huge impact on the people she meets on her travels. Quite simply I could not ask for a better shipmate and I highly recommend her to any future
skipper.
Howard, S/V Sputnik
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