Thanks for signing up to be a contributor to BareboatingtheWorld. Please follow these guidelines so readers will get the most value from your posts. Review the Policies before creating your content
General Posting Considerations
The target audience are other sailors, their first mate(s), or guests planning a bareboat charter. They hope to benefit from your insights about a specific destination or advice gained from your own experience. It’s best to provide accurate, meaningful information and it’s always useful to provide some detail when expressing an opinion about a charter company, anchorage, etc.
Other considerations:
- Requires WordPress ID
- Provides a full editor for content creation
- Categorized and tagged independently
- Site owner approval of all comments and posts
Bareboating Advice/Area Insight Posting Guidelines
It’s best if a single post is around 100 – 400 words. Use the following categories to organize your content. Feel free to organize you content into multiple posts each one tied to one of these categories.
- Before departing: arrival & transfer, restaurants, hotels, must see tourist stuff, charter company info and sound checkout practices,
- Food and Drink: provisioning info including specific places to shop for initial and ongoing provisioning, recommended local food and drink specialties,
- Living Aboard: daily considerations while underway, e.g, fishing, trash, tips about making daily activities while cruising better,
- Sailing stuff: weather, passage making, and anchorage considerations. Also, any advice about good systems practices, reviews of boats chartered, etc.
- Other:
- For area insights, make sure you identify the destination in the title.
- Limit 1 thumbnail picture, less than 100 KB per post
Bareboating Trip Posting Guidelines
Use this single page post to summarize your trip and provide links to other sites that give details in logs, photos, or maps. Best if around 200 words. If necessary, create separate posts for your area insights as described above.
- Short introduction to area and summary of your bareboat charter
- Highlight your important area insights, expand in separate posts following the categories outlined above.
- Limit: 1 thumbnail picture, less than 100 KB per post
- Limit: three external URLs to online photo galleries, maps, sailing blog
