Three or four names along the way work better than "around the bays".
Different feeds, different buyers. A sailing week is when people pay for HOW the boat sails, not for where she ends up.
Model, length, how many cabins.
Exact dates. More weeks — add them here, in the same ad: six weeks in a row is normal for anyone letting a boat for the season. Pick an event from the list below and its dates fill in. Check them: the first person to name the event sets them, and they can mistype too.
The key number of the ad: people look at it before the price.
Say what it is for: one berth or the whole boat. We will divide by the berths ourselves and show both figures — arguing about them later costs more. For scale, from live 2026 ads: a berth in a racing crew for a week in Turkey runs 1850–1900 €.
With no sum, people write "so how much?" instead of "I am in". In the live feed the price is named in 11 posts out of 37, and the ones without it collect up to 97 comments asking the same question. We ask for a number so those 97 are not yours.
Add more: schedule, crew, how full the event is, papers, extras
You can fill this in now or after publishing, on your own ad page. The ad goes out either way, but the less it stays silent about, the fewer letters asking "how many are you?" and "do I need a visa?".
Where we start — optional The marina and how to get there — the second question after the price.
Nearest airports — optional The real cost of the trip is the flight plus the berth, not the berth alone. If there are several, list them: Marmaris is reached through Dalaman, Bodrum and Antalya, and those are three different fares.
Boat model
Pick it from the list — that is our own catalogue, and we fill in cabins, berths and length from the model. Not there? Just type it, the field is free.
Year the boat was built — optional Sellers put it above the itinerary, and rightly so: between a 2023 boat and a 2010 one the difference is air conditioning that works and the smell in the cabin. We do NOT take it from the catalogue — every hull has its own year, and a filled-in one would credit you with somebody else's boat.
How many in the crew in total — optional The first question people ask under an ad. "Six to eight" is a fine answer. Not the same as free berths.
How many berths are male and how many female
Bunks share cabins, so a free berth is always a male or a female one, depending on who took the other bunk. It is not selection, it is the bunk layout — without it a person writes and gets "sorry, only a female berth left" after they have already chosen.
Who is on board: name, role, titles Add a person People are the product: "Leonid Klepikov — tactician, world champion in Swan 50". The roles are about those who sail the boat, not about the guest — the guest still needs nothing.
Who is already in the crew — optional Not roles and not titles, but people: what they do, where they are from. "A tennis coach and a freediving instructor" is what a person wants to know and is shy to ask: who he will spend a week with in a small cabin.
Who we want on board — optional The level is experience, and crews are not picked on that alone. "Experience welcome, character required", "one on the helm and two on the sheets" — people answer words more readily than a list.
When, in words — optional Exact dates. More weeks — add them here, in the same ad: six weeks in a row is normal for anyone letting a boat for the season.
How the week runs — optional What happens day by day. "A new route and a new start every day, carnival one of the evenings" — that sells better than dates and a price, because people buy a week of their life, not a line in a calendar.
Day-by-day schedule Add a day In ads that carry a schedule the schedule IS the product: how many racing days, how many transfers, where the day off is. One line per day — the date, what happens on the water, what happens in the evening. A free-form story does not replace it: you cannot count it.
Link to your page or video — optional The boat page, the regatta programme, your site or a YouTube clip — for the 46th ad the video was the main material. If you have already written and filmed it — show it instead of retelling it.
Link to the event programme — optional "Message me and I will send the programme" — that is the seventh ad in a row. Put the programme behind a link and the reason to move to a messenger disappears along with the request not to.
Regatta or event name
If this is a regatta, name it and every boat sailing it gathers on one page. Three sellers have already posted GARW in Gocek separately, and in a plain feed they would never have met. The suggestion list offers names already entered — pick yours from it if it is there.
Event series — optional If the regatta is part of a series under one name, put it here: Start Cup Türkiye and Start Cup Cyprus are one name in two countries, and people come back for the name. One event in a series is fine too, the next will come.
What matters about the event itself
Not about your boat but about the regatta: which boats are admitted, what it is compared to, which division. "Private boats and very strong crews only" is a reason to pay more, and on the event page you say it, not us: the line goes out signed and dated.
What the boat promises
The main distinction on this board. On the very same regatta a boat with a champion at the helm sails next to a boat that teaches from scratch — two different products at different prices. People choose your promise, not their own level.
How full the event is
How many boats have entered, what the cap is and how many berths are still free. This is a counter, not a description: "19 crews, 11 boats max, hurry" sells harder than any text. We publish it as YOUR statement and with a date, so a month later the reader can see how fresh the figure is.
Crew
An all-women crew is not a wish at the end of the text, it is the format: the boat is put together around it, and people search for that word.
How many people the cabin sleeps — optional So we can show the per-person price too: 1090 € for a cabin for two is 545 €, and next to "400 € a berth" that is already comparable. Nobody does this arithmetic in their head.
Price for a whole cabin — optional If a cabin can be taken whole, name its price. "Cabin 900 €, berth 400 €" are two different products, and without the second figure half the buyers leave.
What papers are needed
The first real requirement seen in live ads: "a visa or a seaman's book is compulsory". Tick everything that works — it is "or", not "and". Someone without a Schengen visa should rule out the Greek regattas without opening the card: this is what makes deals fall through after the money is paid.
What other papers are needed — optional national visa, licence
Where people sleep
A separate question, not a line in "what is included". If the berths are in town and the crew sleeps in hotels, that is another 300-600 € a week — up to a third of the price, and the guest is the last to hear about it. We print it as an extra even when everything else is included.
Does the crew pay anything on top
"Entry fee only 1000 € + shore fee" — the second payment is named but never measured. If you do not know the amount, we will say so on the card: silence here reads as "everything included".
What is paid separately — optional Shore fee, entry fee, fuel, marinas — name it in your own words.
How much it costs, € — optional Not sure — leave it empty and the card will say the amount was not named. That is more honest than a blank.
Tick this if berths came free and you are letting them go cheaper than usual. Name the old price — we show both numbers and a date instead of the word "discount".
The usual price, € — optional Tick this if berths came free and you are letting them go cheaper than usual. Name the old price — we show both numbers and a date instead of the word "discount".
Early-booking price, €
"A good discount" without a number is the same as a "shore fee" without a number, only with a friendlier face. Name the price and the day it holds until.
What the price includes
Arguments about what was included cause half the fall-throughs after the first letter.
Anything else worth knowing
A line or two: crew level, the language on board, what to bring.
Ad headline — optional Assembled from your answers. Change it if you can say it better.
Then your working contact can be shown in the ad itself and people write to you directly. Private ads stay hidden.
Working contact to display — optional EVERYONE WHO OPENS THE BOARD WILL SEE THIS. Give the one already published on your site, not a personal one.
It will not appear in the ad: only we see it, and we pass the answer to you.