Failed Pacific crossing

[trevor gates]

Hi again, Hilo sailing club, 

This is Joel with the crazy idea to sail two boats from BC to Hawaii.

My plan has been a failure so far.

I only crew I found so far were either inexperienced, incompetent, and/or stole from me. Also not enough to crew both boats. 

I had to put see wolf(the 38' ketch) on the hard due to lack of competent crew.

I am now in port Angeles Washington by myself in Aitherios (the 50' ketch).

I am wondering if anyone reading this could help me to find competent crew to motor/sail Aitherios to Coos bay Oregon for drydocking. 

Or possibly even as far as La Paz, Mexico if I can get the crew. 

Thanks for reading and considering this.

-Joel

[Erik Lash]

I'm pretty sure that there were a lot of qualified people, even a few RYA certified yacht masters, who were interested. 

It is rather disingenuous to get on a public list and call everyone who tried to help you out inexperienced and incompetent. 

What I found most difficult to accommodate regarding the Pacific voyage was the overall approach to passage planning.  People typically take 1 - 2 years to refit a yacht and while doing so put together a team that works while running sea trials and testing the boats systems. 

Getting on an untested boat with people who have never done an ocean crossing before a week after legally purchasing a boat while advocating for running stateless/flagless because going through the legal importation process is too costly and time consuming is not a recipe for success.

Sailboats are meant to be sailed and while running the iron gennie is suitable when you have no wind, motoring is not sailing. 

I would recommend taking a look at the RYA Yachtmaster certification program for yourself to become a competent skipper. 

From there you can run small crews on single boats on the mainland until you grow the confidence and skill level to manage multiple ships in a fleet. 

You will pick up crew that fit with your ideologies along the way.

And when you are ready those boats can sail an ocean crossing.

I didn't want to respond to this at all but starting out by insulting people is not how you gain a community to sail with.

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