[arabella]

As a relative newbie to racing I recently spent a fair amount of time this summer looking for crew with little success.

Admittedly I was a little late getting my act together. I did not start looking for crew until mid-June. By that time most crew had already made commitments tfor the season.

My advice would be to start looking as soon as possible after the New Year to start lining up potential crew for interviews - maybe even get a little help with Spring time preparations to guage REAL interest!

For the record I am still looking 3 or 4 crew interested in racing/cruising NEXT Summer (2009) in the Mass, Cape Cod and Buzzards Bay Area.

I skipper a PDQ36 Capella LRC cruising catamaran out of Beverly Harbor.

I have limited experience racing so we are not likely to win any trophies but I guarantee we'll have some fun and hopefully sharpen our sailing skills! My long term goal is to participate in the longer distance/overnight races on a regular basis.

If interested please reply on this thread and I'll get back to you.