LINKS

syketurah.blogspot.com
Francesco's Keturah, a 45ft ferrocement ketch curently sailing in South east Asia.
His website is a very complete source of information for applicants. We face the same issues in selecting crewmembers from the internet and Francesco has a knack for expressing things clearly. Anybody willing to join Karaka should read his website as well.



chasingtheillusion.com
Brian's Illusion, a fiberglass sloop curently getting ready to sail south from the states. Brian sailed on Karaka in 2005 and has since accumulated miles crewing for other boats. He just spent a couple years refitting his boat and will take crew members when he set sail.



imaginasailing.blogspot.com
Imagina is a boat that just started, skippered by another ex crew member of Karaka, Alejandro, and his girl friend Marianna. They will be leaving the states and sail in the northern carribean. They can take a couple crew to share the trip. They are focused on Scuba diving and kite surfing.



Gwen and Vera are two good friends who recently exchanged their small sail boat for a bigger one, in order to have some room for their newborn son Morgan, and also to be able to take crew and passengers to help them with the costs of running a boat. They are sailing in the southwestern carribean at the moment, and are open to any proposition regarding crewing or chartering. They would be the ideal boat for a cheap no hassle charter of a few weeks for example. Contact them at gwendaljudith@yahoo.com



liveaboardsailing.com
Julian's Tropicbird, a 50ft wooden ketch is now going to offer sailing opportunities on a cost sharing basis in the Caribbean.



stahlratte.de
The Stahlratte is a 40 meters 100 years old steel schooner run by a german anarchist collective. They are mostly running backpacker trips between Colombia and Panama most of the time but they sail around the Caribbean once a year.



Ron's Olive, a steel ketch run by a british south african who is sailing in the caribean. You can contact him by email : vesselolive@yahoo.com.



rvheraclitus.org
The research vessel Heraclitus is a massive quasi organic ferrocement chinese junk run by a worldwide association. They are curently sailing in the Med on an expedition headed to the Black Sea.



We also met briefly a couple from Venezuela who are sailing around the Panama area and taking paying passengers on their yacht Maluco. They will accomodate anybody for vacations or extended trips in a cheap charter style. Their adress is jpernalest@hotmail.com


A few free crewfinder websites on which we post ads and from which we have good returns :

floatplan.com
7knots.com
lonelyplanet.com
crewbay.com


moulinruel.canalblog.com
Lastly, for those who are traveling Europe and want to experience the real France, not the France of the cities and consumerism, my parents are running a small scale WOOF farm. They take volunteers to share their little bit of paradise in the woods. They are located near Grenoble, France. Gps position :45 18.220 N 05 16.320 E. If you are interested you can check their profile here(top listing in french) and contact them through the WOOF France website here. if you are not a Woof member you can send me an email directly and I'll pass it to them.