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Sailing the Caribbean on $55 per day
The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler has an article describing sailing as crew in the Grenadines on a 75 foot schooner, the S.V. Illusion, for a very reasonable sum.
Sailing the Caribbean, the Frugal Way
Our berths aboard the Illusion cost us each $55 a day, a sum that covered breakfast, dinner, basic instruction in sailing, plus mooring and customs fees — pretty much everything except lunch, beer and off-shore excursions. And beyond those tangibles, we were getting access to the world of yachties, those fortunate souls who drift on the wind from port to port, stopping for snorkeling, drinks and tale telling at sparsely inhabited tropical islands where ferries and prop planes rarely land.
I’d always craved that sense of freedom, but with sailing classes in New York City generally starting near $500 and yacht charters in the thousands of dollars, this Frugal Traveler despaired of ever attaining it.
This is probably a good news/bad news story. The good news is that if some fraction of the Time’s 20 million monthly on-line viewers and its over a million dead tree subscribers should read the article, the folks on the S.V. Illusion should have no trouble filling the ten berths onboard with paying crew. The bad news is that if you wish to book a berth on the schooner, there may be a line down both the actual and virtual dock.
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