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A solo cruising sailor in his late forties, based aboard and filming for the Sailing Doodles YouTube channel, describes why dating while living aboard and cruising full time is structurally difficult.0:12 Cruising destinations — the Caribbean, the BVI, Koh Chang in Thailand — draw couples, families, and honeymooners, not singles, leaving a thin dating pool in any given anchorage.2:28 Short stops of three days to a week make gradual courtship impossible; the lifestyle forces fast decisions about whether someone joins the boat before either person knows the other well.1:55 He recounts bringing crew aboard who turned out to be poor fits, and the hard conversation required to ask someone to leave a boat they traveled to reach.14:14 Dating apps compound the problem: romance scams are common, and on small islands the pool of single, age-appropriate people is too small for apps to work reliably.5:26 Running a public YouTube channel adds further layers — new partners encounter ten years of documented ex-girlfriends on video, comment sections deliver personal criticism, and it is hard to distinguish genuine interest from someone seeking fame or a platform.17:01 Solo female cruisers exist but are rare; single male cruisers are the norm.9:49

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