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Trading Places - How Do You Swap a Stay at Your Cabin or Condo For a Change of Scenery?
The first time I came across this concept, I was looking at the community bulletin board at the Madeline Island Yacht Club.  There was a note card pinned to the board that read "want to trade two weeks aboard our yacht in the Canary Islands for a two-week stay at a Madeline Island cabin".
The whole thing sounded very appealing!  Attached to the note card was a photo of a forty-something foot sailboat, anchored at a nice-looking marina in an area that was obviously tropical.  There was a list of amenities aboard the boat (full galley, fore and aft cabins with queen beds, head with shower, onboard refrigeration and generator, television and the like) plus a list of area attractions in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The catch would be that you'd have to get yourself to the Islands, either by ferry or charter aircraft.  And the boat owner wanted to swap for a stay at a two or three-bedroom log home on Lake Superior, with full kitchen and bath facilities. 
At the time, I had no cabin to offer for such a swap.  My family was living aboard a thirty-foot power boat at the Madeline Island Marina, not exactly what these people ... more

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