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# Most sail[[boats]] are owned by persons of affluent background and they want to sail with their friends. Often their friends think it is a good idea and agree to come along and then find out that sailing is not their cup of tea (too dirty, bumpy, boring, cramped - any number of reasons). Thus crews are constantly unexpectedly reforming. This is your opportunity for a ride.
# In all the ports I visited in Central America and the [[South Pacific]] including [[Australia]] at 8 AM 8am local time all the boats in the harbor talk with each other over radio on channel 19. Thus you can listen and participate of you can either get on a boat with a radio or from a radio on land. They talk about all kinds of things they need, like where to get the bottoms of boats scraped and where is a good place to buy diesel fuel that is not watered down. And at the end of this broadcast you can generally say "My name is Wombat and I am looking for a ride to the Marquesas and I can cook."(Last checked 1989/1990)
==Skills you may need==
The four capabilities that boat captains are most often looking for are
# cooks,;# people with the capacity to repair diesel engines,;# navigators,;
# people with medical skills, especially emergency medical skills.
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