Anyone can join the SSCA. You can only be a commodore if you live full
time aboard your boat and get recommended by another member. Personally
it's a membership that I don't wish to have as I like having a home for
hurricane season.

-- Geoff

Rosalie B. wrote in
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But if you really want specific recommendations, go to the
SSCA (you might join if you can get someone to recommend you), and
look at the kinds of boats that people that are out there doing it are
sailing in and then look at those kinds of boats to see what they are
like.