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* [http://findacrew.net Find a CrewCrew™] is by far the largest global crew website for finding crew and boatsworldwide, but and you can barely do anything stay a Free member for as long as you like without paying a steep fee (USstarting from AU$70/month75 for 30 days, and a 20% discount when renewing, but thankfully no recurring charges). You can also pause your Premium once for free, for up to 18 months. The main thing things you can do as a free Free member are pretty much the same as a Premium member is , except exchange personal messages with other matching Free members. To protect your privacy you can send a "waverequest" to captains any matching boat members without having to disclose your personal details - if they have a paid account, they can then start a message conversation with you; if they have a free account like you, they can only "wave" backreply 'yes' or 'maybe' to express their mutual interest, or 'decline' to stop you from upgrading to Premium because of them. You Because nobody can also just hope that captains scouring pay to have a better profile or better rank than anyone else, and nobody is asked or forced to be Premium the platform regulates itself with the site for crew kind of members who are using it. Rather than relying upon someone who will find randomly spot your (rather detailed) profile, but unless you simply focus on keeping your own profile up to date as the more accurate your profile, the better your chances. Your profile will then automatically be matched with the thousands of members who have serious sailing experience or signed in during the captain last 45 days only, which you can check anytime with your 'QuickFind', and they will automatically be notified within 24 hours about your profile with a calculated match percentage that is attracted recalculated all the time with every change any member does. So even if you’re heading out to sea for a week or two, your profile keeps working for youon your behalf, this is pretty much and lets you know who registered and who viewed your profile while you were out of reach. As they state on their home page 'Find a Crew aims to be here for anyone, anytime, anywhere – without trying to be everything to everyone'. Find a long shotCrew’s popularity and its longevity with the same consistent business model probably speaks for itself.* [http://crewbay.com CrewBay] is probably the most another useful free dedicated crew site as of 2020. Much fewer boats than Find a Crew, but it's freeto exchange personal messages, but limits profile presentation and interactions. It does have some premium paid features(with an automatic monthly subscription unless cancelled - which becomes expensive if you forget about it), but you can easily get by without them, but which of course doesn't help the webmaster who is providing this site for you if you're using it. User:Treefrog found a boat from Florida to Panama this way, and his crewmates also found the boat using free CrewBay accounts. [[User:Treefrog]] found a boat from Florida to Panama this way, and his crewmates also found the boat using free CrewBay accounts.