"What if you spent a summer working as crew on a charter yacht?"
You'll learn knots your friends will never figure out, know exactly how to trim a sail in force 5 winds, and you'll have watched sunsets from a cockpit with views no hotel can match. Added bonus: from now on, you'll always smell faintly of salt and adventure.
Jelle (29), Groningen — geography teacher, has been sailing since he was twelve
The first morning I had to cast off the lines at five a.m. in the harbour of Palma, bad coffee in hand, with a guest looking at me like I was his personal butler, I genuinely thought: what have I gotten myself into.
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