Availability after 1 May 2025
Locations
- Asturias, Principado de - visible to Crew members only - same as boarding location - Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - 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.
Galicia - Azores - Canarias - Azores - Spain
Muros Avilés 
Leg 1
Muros Ponta Delgada Ilha de São MiguelLeg 2
Funchal Ilhas da MadeiraLeg 3
Arrecife LanzaroteLeg 4
Leg 5
Horta Ilha do FaialLeg 6
Vigo Leg 7
Avilés Vessel
What are the language proficiency levels?
fluent English
elementary Spanish, Italian, German
Crew
Lifestyle
Experience
Position
Recreational generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses
Crew experienced
Watch-keeper experienced and qualified
Competent Crew some experience
Delivery Crew experienced and qualified
Deckhand any experience
Dear Shipmates
Introduction
We provide support for experiencing the life at sea, how to manage a big boat and her crew, performing all aspects of oceanic and offshore sailing as well as organizing remote territories explorations/expeditions.
Spring and Summer 2025 big voyage between Spain, azores, canarias, azores again and back to Spain. 6 legs, starting may 1st from Spain.
I have the opportunity to run two boats, a 38' for coastal sailing and basic offshore training, and a 55 footer for Ocean Sailing and exploration.
About the boats :
Comfortable and well equipped, these boats are from the 80's and do not have all the comfort of modern sailing boats but are very seaworthy and safe, by design.
Altough not recent, they are very well built sailing boats. We are constantly maintaining and refitting them professionally, with the best sails, spars and rigging.
Both boats are heated at sea, and of course at mooring, when needed.
About the boat, the plans, and current crew
comfortablevery safeshare experiencevisit remote placesface challenges
Program for 2025 summer is to be published soon.
What is expected of the crew
clean & tidyeasy-goingfit & healthyorganisedrespectfulconfident swimmerrarely/unlikely seasickeager to learn & workpoliteLGBTIQA+ respectfulopen mindedsense of humorcan pay own expensesenjoy cookinggood with maintenancecan follow orderswill not bring a bicycle
Very much interested in Explorations process, true respect for nature and mankind, we are trying to enhance human skills and perceptions, in this age of technology where it is easy to simulate or manipulate everything ; we believe that human techniques must be at the heart of the art of sailing.
We are here for sharing tips and sometimes knowledge ;)
We are not a sailing school, we do not delivering any diploma of all kind. But we may help you to organize your skills into a coherent pattern, especially for ocean sailing.
We also organize RYA type passages, compliant with YM Offshore and YM Ocean requirements.
You are expected to be fully involved into every duties and activities onboard, accordingly to your abilities. We will of course support you in every aspects of life on a sailing boat at sea.
Looking forward to sailing with you !
Stephane
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