COME AND SAIL WITH US!

Want to come and join us for a while?

You are more than welcome! We often have friends (old and new) hop on board for while and enjoy the experience greatly. We love the company and it usually works out quite well. You don’t need to be able to sail, but you must come with the idea of making friends and helping out. We do not offer a charter service, so do not expect one.

If you are friendly, happy to pitch in by standing your watch, scrubbing the decks, steering the boat, hoisting sails, cooking and generally get involved in process of running and maintaining a cruising boat, then we offer the experience for free. We do ask though that you make a small contribution to the cost of food, fuel, dockage, water etc (see the chapter below).
When we have guests, we try and keep the sailing civilized. We do not leave harbour in bad weather unless absolutely necessary and we try and avoid night passages. Of course, as skipper I am pinioned by my responsibility to the crew and the boat, but we generally try to keep the sailing as idyllic as possible.

If you fancy some adventurous sailing you can join us for a long passage, for example Tahiti to the Cook Islands or Vanuatu to Australia.

Generally though, it makes sense to try and meet us in a good cruising area with plenty to see and do (French Polynesia is great, Fiji and Tonga even more…) unless you have already done some sailing, are confident of your sea-legs and fancy the passage.

So, if you have ever wondered what the cruising life is like or simply fancy joining us for a sail, just drop us an email and we will let you know where we are.

The Daily Contribution

The sailing itself is free.

However, when we have guests, there is of course the extra expense of food, water, propane, petrol, diesel etc,. Furthermore, having guests is expensive in ways that are not so obvious. Guests generally have a limited timescale, so Jasna and I change the way we cruise – we speed things up, go to more places, run the engine more, use the dinghy more, use marinas more, provision with more imported foods and generally use the boat harder.

Therefore it is more expensive for us when we have guests than when we cruise alone (we often spend weeks snorkeling in the same anchorage – something our friends would not like to do if they have to be back at work in a few days).

We would love to invite everybody and pay all the expenses, but living on a boat on our budget, this would only occasionally be possible. We therefore ask that each visitor pays a contribution (currently US $40 a day except in French Polynesia where is $50 a day) towards the added expenses – not so much when you see how we eat!

More importantly, we ask that you realize what this contribution is for. It is a friendly contribution towards the extra expenses, not a payment for sailing on our boat, which is free. It is not a charter fee, and we are not a charter crew. If you want to charter a yacht and a crew, then click here . If, however, you want to muck in, have some fun and maybe make some new friends, then we would be extremely happy to meet you.