If you are a boat or person attending, send us some info! Feel free to answer as many or few of these, submit to the google group or email to
stevevonsteve at gmail dot com
Questionnaire:
If you have a Boat:
/ Boat name
/ Make, model, year
/ Rig
/ Hailing port (if you have one)
/ Auxiliary power
/ Tender: Size, type, power
/ Crew, number sailing
/ Crew needed? (if so we can list your contact on this site, let us know)
/ Musical instruments on board?*
/ Animals on board?
/ Bikes aboard?*
/ Favourite reference book aboard
/ Are you interested in hosting a workshop/activity/discussion? If so, tell us about it!
/ What are you excited about at the boat meetup this winter?
/ Where are you headed after the workshop?
/ Anything else you would like to add?
/ Want to buddy boat to Guatemala this winter? (if so we can help you get it together! leave your contact)
/ Approximate departure date and location
*we're asking because local groups have requested concerts and bike maintenance
Example:
S.V. Drummer, 1973 Colvin Doxy 38’, Steel hull Junk-Rigged Schooner.
Already in Rio Dulce.
Tenders: 8’dyer Dhow, midget sailing and rowing dingy & 8’ trinka sailing and rowing dingy
Bikes. Yes, road. And tools.
Reference book: Sailboat Electrics Simplified (always a tear-jerker)
Headed towards Belize after the workshop week, with room for crew.
For the Boatless: (we can probably hook you up)
/ Name
/ Hailing port (if you have one)
/ Interested in Crewing on a boat down to the meetup?
/ Any sailing experience?
/ Favourite sailing book / Are you interested in hosting a workshop/activity/discussion? If so, tell us about it!
/ What are you excited about at the boat meetup this winter?
/ Where are you headed after the workshop?
/ Anything else you would like to add?
/ Approximate departure date and location
Example:
Wombat. Traveler from Bouvet. I want to crew on a boat down to the meetup! I've never sailed. I liked "sea wolf" by London. I'll do a workshop on freighter hitching! I can be anywhere anytime.
Please email info to:
stevevonsteve at gmail dot com
Ok, my name is Tobias, I m German, 26. I ve spend about 1,5 years sailing from san diego to vanuatu, including my 7 month stay in vanuatu.
ReplyDeletealso have i had my own yacht there and fixed her up. later i sailed from germany to portugal, just 5 weeks.
I really wanna come, but got to see if I can bum a ride across the atlantic since i live in Granada, Spain at the moment. If I can t find a ride i m gonna have to fly wich i hate.
I m totally keen to make the meeting for the skill share and for the folks.
read this, I made it up at sea:
This is a calling.
I am calling out to sea.
Since over a year now I have been bumming round the world on sailing verssels.
The advantages are : no or little responsobilities, no or little
costes and you get to sail around some amazing places and see shit.
Learn a great deal about sailing.
Disadvantages: You have to put up with more or less abnoxious
skippers, always in a rush, motyoring too much, you dont get to decide
when and where to go. Plus the boats are often snobbish and of a
plastic material like yoghurt cups.
You can also get your own boat like I did in Vanuatu. It was a 31ft
steel yacht, rough as fuck. The mast wasnt quite long enough for the
sail so it was permanently reefed ( To any "normal" sailor this rates
a boat as not seaworthy) But with my self buildt bowsprit of local
hardwood there was a lot of space for a big genoa and she sailed like
a dream to take me and my bad ass clueless but fearless crew from
island to island for an unforgettable time. We fastened Asusty in a
bay never visited by a yacht before with bush ropes cut in the
mountains to hold the boat away from the coral heads. And we buildt a
bracket for the solar panel from bamboo.
When we arrived in the capital though it all shattered. None of my
friends had passports , the negine fucked up badly, I was tired and
stressed out- burnout.
My best friend in Germany tried to kill himself and got locked away in
mental clinic plus my parents tried to come visit my in the islands
because they hadnt seen me in 2,5 years. So I gave to boat to a friend
to look after and flew to Germany. I hate flying. I think everything
sux in Germany so as I write this I am out sailing again, making my
way to the south of Portugal in a yacht.
But here comes the clou. Its an awesome thing to have a boat but it
needs a lot of time, some money and friends who are gonna stay on as a
part of it and not just for a small vacation. After the send off party
of Satan Dance Party it s been clear to me that sailing from port to
port playing gigs or busking makes a lot of sence. You got a group of
people and got the manpower to look after and maintain a bigger boat
And have some company that is rather pleasant and not just endurable.
After the 4months restauration of Asusty I feel capable of fixing
another piece of shit boat. Plus I have a lot of sailing experience by
now. So what it takes now is a crew and a floatsome.
Let s sail around the whole fucking world, taking time normal ,
working capitalists dont have, going of the beaten track, sailing
after whales and coconuts, island girls and vulcanos,...
Let us be sea nomads, not as a vacation, but as a life style. In my
eyes it s the onlyu way to get out and see trhe world without burning
a ton of fossil fuels and without being a tourist cunt.-
Plus having a self maintained DIY pirate looking boat we will be rated
people class, enebling us to all the advantages of hospitality snobs
never get.
I know what I am talking about, my friends in vanuatu stole almost all
my tools and equipment from the masters together to give it to me!
Coma on lad! Let s have it!
Away boys! away boys! We re going out to sea!
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Hi! We're a pair of travelers with no particular experience of sailing, but we are very eager to learn sailing skills and meet likeminded individuals. We will be in oaxaca the week before the meet up. Does Anyone have suggestions of cheap ways to get to rio dulce? We're hoping to meet people and maybe sail back to mexico if possible!
ReplyDeleteThank you and see you soon!