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Availability after 12 May 2025
Locations
- Attica - visible to Crew members only - Stockholm - visible to Crew members only - Stockholm - visible to Crew members only - Stockholm - 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 (S) (initial departure) to the finish (F) (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 (reasonably 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:
- Name your itinerary with a short and clear title, such as 2025 Antarctic Expedition or 2025 Italy Family Cruise, that is descriptive, easy to remember, and simple to refer to in conversations.
- 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.
- Next, add each leg of the significant stopovers by date and location.
- 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.
Vessel
fluent Swedish
Crew
Lifestyle
Experience
Position
Recreational generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses
Crew some experience
Competent Crew some experience
Dear Shipmates
Introduction
On May 12, 2025, we will sail from the Island Poros south of Athens in Greece to Stockholm Sweden.
I already have circumnavigated the world twice, first during ten years,1988–1998 and also between 2010–2013, financing the trip by taking onboard paying crew, altogether 1 300 people. These first ten years were great, the best in my life. During the next 10 summers (1999 to 2009) I cruised the Baltic Sea, the Med, the European rivers/canals (the Rhone, the Rhine and Danube/Donau), the Black and the Red Sea with paying crew.
During 2010–2013 I did my second circumnavigation. 2015 we sailed to St Petersburg, through Russia to the White Sea, on to Svalbard and then back via Norway to Stockholm. 2016/2017 we sailed to the Caribbean and back to The Med and again 2021-22 to the Caribbean. The yacht is now in Poros just south of Athens.
The boat is a privat sailing yacht cruising the world for pleasure with many different and international people coming and going. I am financing my sailing by taking onboard paying crew and writing books, giving lectures about sailing... So, this is not a payed position!
Regards Lars, Stockholm, Sweden
About the boat, the plans, and current crew
comfortableluxuriousvery safevessel is survey certifiedvery spaciousshare experienceshare charter costsvisit remote placesseek adventurefulfill a dream
The yacht has a big cozy saloon, galey and navigation station below deck. There is a large cockpit with two wheels and a fixed Bimini top above, and two large deck cusions on top. On the stern there is a large swimming/diving platform. The boat has a diving compressor, 4 dive sets, watermaker, inverter for 220 V, VHF, AIS, Radar, dinghe with outborder and Satellite Communication.
Premium members can check out my website, or Free members whom I contact or reply to while I'm a Premium member.
Welcome onboard Lars
What is expected of the crew
clean & tidyeasy-goingenthusiasticfit & healthyfriendlytrustworthytravel light (little luggage)eager to learn & workpolitepositive outlookopen mindedsense of humorcan pay own expensesenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaning
When we are not sailing, we are like normal tourists, checking out the places, swimmig, snorkelling, reading, perhaps renting a scooter or car, and evenings we might take a beer or two at the local bar.
And please, note that you have to pay a fee type share expences in order to sail on with me, so this is not a payed position!
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