How to get started sailing the world

In 2015, I met a guy on Tinder who had read an article about a couple of our age, who dropped everything to buy a boat and start sailing the World. Naturally, five minutes into that conversation, we decided this was going to be what we do as well.

But just like Matt and Jessica, the couple who we read about, we knew absolutely nothing about sailing or sailboat. It has been 8 years since the conversation that changed our lives, and after 25000 nautical miles sailed between the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic a few times, we’re boat buddies with Matt and Jessica.

So how do you get there? Well, at the time, there was no good one-stop resource to learn everything that we needed to know about. Of course, we took a sailing course, but that didn’t really teach us how to choose or buy a sailboat, or how to make good decisions, or how we were going to deal with seasickness, or prepare ourselves mentally for the challenges of life onboard…

So we decided that we were going to make a course about it. But not “JUST” a course. We worked on it for an entire year with a team of 2 writers, a director, a handful of producers and editors, and an animator. We wrote 400 pages of script, filmed for two weeks from dawn to dusk, and spent over 6 months editing the lessons.

When writing this course, we identified the 6 pillars of a successful sailing adventure:

• Sailing knowledge and Seamanship

• Choosing and equipping your boat

• Destination research and Passage Planning

• Crew Readiness, Budgeting & Lifestyle

• Enjoying the Journey

We developed the course around those 6 pillars and the result? 37 videos lessons divided into 8 chapters and 3 parts, covering everything from basic sailing knowledge, to how to buy and equip a boat, how to read a nautical chart and research sailing destinations, how to enter countries by sea and clear customs, how to budget for cruising, and SO. MUCH. MORE…

In this course, we have also added a PDF guide with all the resources that were helpful when we got started, but also those we learned of along the way. We provide learners with a gear guide, risk-management checklist, passage planning form, excel sheets to estimate your power needs, a boat survey example and tons of tips to avoid you potentially costly mistakes.

This is the resource we wanted to have access to 8 years ago, and we hope it will be helpful to you, who aspire to join us on anchor, but don’t know quite yet how to make it happen.

So if you are curious what it takes to start cruising, go get the course here, and let us know how it goes!