Top Highlights

• Surveys taken by various sailing entities indicate that at any one time there are up to 10,000 boats actively out cruising.
• Type “crew on a cruising yacht” into the search engine and sites like crewseekers.net, crewbay.com, lovesail.com, sailingnetworks.com pop up.
• probably the most successful way to get crewing positions is by actually going to ports in the sunshine belt or places where sailors stop to refit or restock before they set off across oceans: Gibraltar or Palma de Mallorca from April to June if you want to head eastward into the Mediterranean; Malta, Rhodes, and Piraeus are good places to find boa...
• Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas, and Puerto Rico abound with open crew spots during October and November.
• In San Diego and other Southern California ports, look for boats headed toward Mexico during October and November. In Baja California and Mexico, starting in February you might find crewing positions on boats headed south along the mainland and then out into the South Pacific.