Before reading on, please pause for a moment to take this week’s survey so we can share the results with the Cruising Compass family.<\/p>\n
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Many thanks to all readers who completed last week’s survey on crew for passages. 69% say they take only fam ly and friends, 51% say they take crew highly recommended by family and fiends, 15% take crew from members of their yacht club or sailing association,\u00a0 7% never take extra crew and 4% have used a crew service.\u00a0 Regarding crew experiences, 49% have had a problem with a crew member while 51% have not.<\/p>\n
The most common problems cited by readers are: lying about sailing experience,\u00a0 incompatibility,\u00a0 chronic seasickness,\u00a0 crew trying to be the skipper, guys competing over a female crew and an alcoholic\/addict trying to dry out offshore (no fun).<\/p>\n
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Before reading on, please pause for a moment to take this week’s survey so we can share the results with the Cruising Compass family. Do you have a water maker on your boat and can you recommend a brand to other cruisers? Many thanks to all readers who completed last week’s survey on crew for passages. 69% say they take only fam ly and friends, 51% say they take crew highly recommended by family and fiends, 15% take crew from members of their yacht club or sailing association,\u00a0 7% never take extra crew and 4% have used a crew service.\u00a0 Regarding crew experiences, 49% have had a problem with a crew member while 51% have not. The most common problems cited by readers are: lying about sailing experience,\u00a0 incompatibility,\u00a0 chronic seasickness,\u00a0 crew trying to be the skipper, guys competing over a female crew and an alcoholic\/addict trying to dry out offshore (no fun). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38633,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions\/38633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}