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Host Gavin MacLeod revealed that even he himself had set up a profile on the dating site, joking that he “can’t let the real captains have all the fun!” But that innocent joke highlighted a very real problem for the site, said the site’s new lead engineer Robert Santine, “Our main challenge now is to keep the site growing while at the same time limiting fake captain profiles. While SeaCaptainDate.com has become extremely popular in sailing circles, which is great, we’ve also seen a surge in fraudulent accounts made by hipsters in Brooklyn and Hollywood. We’ve been deleting these “fake-captains”, but it’s hard sometimes keeping up.