Crew Wanted. That's really how it all started. We found a Crew Wanted website and wrote a few different people and wound up connecting with a Captain who we met over Skype (while living in Finland) and bought tickets and were on a plane to Raleigh, North Carolina. The boat was 47 ft. and there were two captains and us two yahoos. We sailed out from Beaufort, N.C. and headed into the great wide open...
And after 9 days out tossed on the open ocean, sailing through the Bermuda Triangle and through a meter shower, we arrived in the Dominican Republic. The smell of dirt after 9 days on water was intoxicating. And here in the port city of Luperon, is where we jumped ship, headed to a cafe for some lunch and met our next Captain and crew heading to Columbia (sailing around Haiti right before their tragic earthquake) and on to the San Blas Islands in Panama on a 108ft 3 masted schooner.
Jumped ship on one of the 400 islands of San Blas (the only one with a makeshift runway) in Panama and took a jeep through the rain forest to Panama City. There we reconnected with a family we met on the island, who took us all over the city to see the sights. From there we headed north...