Confusing crewing with mating rabbits

I was directed earlier to the Crewseekers site which is a whole lot nearer to real sailing that the books I wrote about yesterday. This uses an intriguing business model where yacht owners can post for free and prospective crews have to pay a subscription of, currently, £60 a half year to access details of the sailing opportunities. Good thinking!

You have to be careful to get the hyphen in the URL as crewseekers.com takes you straight to a site about rabbit mating. Strange.....but true.

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