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Max Ebb is a regular contributor to Latitude 38 magazine, and with sidekick Lee Helm, use their pseudonyms to discuss the problems of the world, Here’s their chat from the March 2025 edition:

College students — especially “starving” college students — make the best crew. They are smart, agile, enthusiastic, and best of all, hungry. The problem is, they graduate and move on. Or worse, once they become valuable as crew, they can find a berth on a more competitive boat than my old racer- cruiser.

It’s critical to earn their loyalty to the program, and one of my strategies involves their stomachs: We sail across the Bay to an upscale restaurant, my treat. They can bring guests, and that usually brings in more recruits. In terms of speed around the course per dollar spent, it’s a better return than almost any new sail.

This year’s preseason crew dinner was particularly promising, with some eager novices and even a couple of talented dinghy sailors at the table. – Full report