Availability after 10 Mar 2025
Locations
- Marquesas Islands - visible to Crew members only - Austral Islands - visible to Crew members only - same as boarding location - South Holland - visible to Premium CrewItineraries
What are itineraries, routes, legs, stopovers, and waypoints?
An itinerary is a route divided into legs showing the planned locations and dates of the main stopovers from the start (initial departure) to the end (final arrival), which is the destination of the vessel's journey (also called voyage, trip, torn, or expedition).
Each leg has a departure and an arrival date and location. It may also have additional waypoints in between, which might be stopping points or course change points.
Accuracy of itineraries
Itineraries for vessels at sea are never precise! We use three accuracy levels for the planning status to avoid confusion about what is likely to happen or not:
- Pending (not accurate) – initial idea, possibilities
- Preliminary (kinda accurate) – changes may still apply
- Planned (fairly accurate) – this is what's meant to happen
Days vs Nights
The duration of an itinerary is counted in days (start to end date) and the leg in nights (departure to arrival date). That is because you may arrive on a Monday and leave on a Tuesday. Therefore, there can be confusion if you were there for one or two days, but it would strictly count as one night without any confusion.
Therefore, you would say you went on a 14-day holiday or trip (the itinerary) and spent 13 nights on all your legs combined, for example.
Planning vs Estimates
There is also an important distinction between planning (what's the intention) and estimating (what's calculated). A time of arrival is always an estimate as a calculation is required; that's why it is called ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival).
You can't plan to leave San Francisco and arrive in Hawaii 10 minutes later, regardless of how desperate your intention is. If you intend to arrive in Hawaii by a certain date and estimate 10 days for the journey, then you can plan to leave San Francisco 12 to 15 days before. Therefore, your departure date is planned (what's the intention), and the arrival is still an estimate (what's calculated based on season, winds, currents, and many other factors). Plans can change due to weather, government requirements, breakdowns, delays, etc.
Tips for planning an itinerary
The following tips are worth noting to manage your itinerary and maintain an excellent overview:
- 1) Name your itinerary with a short and clear title, such as 2024 Antarctic Expedition or 2024 Italy Family Torn, that is descriptive, easy to remember, and simple to refer to in conversations.
- 2) You can set your itinerary's visibility to private while planning it, share it with only those you contact, or share it with anyone who views your profile.
- 3) Next, add each leg of the significant stopovers by date and location.
- 4) Then, keep updating each leg as required.
Be realistic and mindful when planning an itinerary. People will arrange their timing and life around it, taking time off work, booking flights, arranging accommodation, etc. It's crucial to let the crew know how accurate they can expect the itinerary to be.
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Vessel
What are the language proficiency levels?
fluent English
competent French, German
elementary Spanish
Crew
Lifestyle
Experience
Position
Recreational generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses
Crew experienced
Dear Shipmates
Introduction
If you want to explore, read this. If you only want to cross the Pacific by sailboat, stop reading here.
The boat is sailing fossil fuel free around the world. We are always sailing and hardly use the engines, because we like it and we also have not much electricity to run the electric engines a long time. So if you are a sailor-sailor, this is the opportunity.
I am looking for crew, to sail French Polynesia till Octobre/November 2025. We go to remote islands, like atolls in Tuamotu and the Austral Islands, and perhaps the Society Islands. However, we will return at the Marquesas Islands before the cyclone season.
The idea of the sustainable yacht is to actively sail fossilfree around the world, act sustainably, so learn from it, and write/film about it and put it in blogs/documentaries/pictures/film, for mainly European/American blogreaders. Sometimes we do projects, like the Sail A Future project. The idea is that you like to participate in the sustainability part.
You like cooking? That would be a great advantage.
Peter
About the boat, the plans, and current crew
share experiencevisit remote placeslive off the gridmulticultural
What is expected of the crew
committedfit & healthyfriendlyrespectfulskilledtrustworthyopen mindedcan pay own expensesenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaningwill not bring a bicycle
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