Hitchhiking a boat

Hitchhiking a boat is a bit like hitchhiking a plane. There are not so many boats...

Your best chances are to become part of the crew.

In the Caribean it's not too hard to find sail boats that need an extra hand on deck.

If you want to hitch on a boat, you will find a way if you try hard enough, but it will take you a lot of time. You can try hanging out at the harbor for a week, talking to almost anyone, possibly finding a pub where sailors tend to drink their beer.

Weblinks with information

• Cruiser Log, has some very useful info, some specific for hitchhikers, including a rough guide of movements of cruising yachts
• 7knots has a practical way of finding boats
• Boating OZ, mostly in Australia, some Pacific

These sites are not super useful:

• Cruising Sailor - Crew Positions
• SailNet.com
• World Cruising Club
• Ships-for-sale.com
• http://www.windowsoncyprus.com/crew_list.htm
• http://www.sailingalternatives.org/crew.htm
• http://www.floatplan.com
• http://www.crewfile.com
• http://www.dockwalk.com
• http://www.reliance-yachts.com
• http://www.partnersandcrews.com