Pittwater, NSW, AU
Living for free as volunteer crew on someone else’s yacht sounds all well and good while you’ve got a boat to live on but we are often asked what we do when we’re between yachts.
Our first few months in Australia are a good example. After we left our work with the racing stable there was about a month before we found a job “sailing” in New Zealand and after that about another month before we decided the best way to celebrate the 4th of July was to get trapped in a genuine Australian blizzard. Both of these situations were the same: too short a time to find a temporary position but too long to want to pay for a hotel in a country with a high cost of living. So we had to answer the question –
What does a sailor do for a cheap night’s rest down under?
