Stay in touch

Keep in contact - or make new friends

If you want to keep in touch with people you've met on board John Laing, or at other Ocean Youth Trust South events, or perhaps you have booked your first voyage and want some advice from other crew members - or maybe even find someone else doing the same voyage - why not join us on one of the social networking websites?

Some of these sites are brilliant ways for crew members, sea staff and other friends and supporters to keep in touch, contact each other, or spread the word among other people about OYT South voyages. We have even rediscovered some old friends who sailed on John Laing's voyage round the world in the late 1990s - and people who were sailing with us as the Ocean Youth Club back in the 1960s.

Please note that our adult staff and volunteers cannot accept individual friend requests on these sites from crew members under the age of 18 - young people should please just use the sites to keep in touch with the boat and with each other! Sea staff are not being unfriendly (and you are welcome to send them messages via the boat's page); but this is part of our child protection policy.

If you are already using one of these sites, come and be one of John Laing's friends - and tell all YOUR friends about us! If you haven't tried any of these sites yet, why not come and join us?

Facebook is probably the liveliest of our current sites and has the most people looking at it regularly. If you are already a member, you'll find us under "John Laing" - just send a friend request. You can also join a group: "John Laing - Adventure Under Sail". If you're new to Facebook, it's easy to sign up and send us a friend request, and then you may find other people you know on our friends list. You can send messages, post notices, share photos and videos, receive invitations to events. and read our bulletins.

Facebook users please note that John Laing’s plant, Wilt, now has a profile in his own right, under the name Wilt Hangs. Add him as a friend if you like talking to plants.

MySpace, unlike Facebook, allows people to see our profile without first being accepted as someone we know (it would be easy to establish privacy settings if we didn't want this, something you might like to think about if you are joining MySpace). But this means the link given here will take you to our own page.

Please do leave your comments, photos and messages - we always like to hear from past or present friends and supporters.

If you are using one of these sites, do take care of your own privacy and safety: don't put personal information on your page unless you're happy for everyone to see it; and don't forget that what seems funny now might come back to haunt you in later life.

We will delete any messages, photos or videos posted on our pages which are in any way offensive, abusive or inappropriate; and the people responsible will be deleted from our friends' list and prevented from posting in future. If anyone spots any problems on one of our pages, do let us know and we will deal with it very quickly.