Availability after 20 Feb 2025
Locations
- Central Visayas - visible to Crew members only - same as boarding location
- Baden-Württemberg - visible to Premium Crew
Itineraries
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.
Vessel
What are the language proficiency levels?
fluent English
elementary French
learning Italian
Crew
Lifestyle
Experience
Position
Recreational generally unpaid positions, or contributing towards some agreed expenses
Crew any experience
Dear Shipmates
Introduction
Sailing means for me traveling powered by the wind… exploring the world from the waterside….
As a person I am calm, tolerant and respectful. I love good food and I love to cook, too. I am personally a “flexitarian” I respect vegetarian kitchen, but I am personally unexperienced in preparing vegan food… So if you are vegan - you are heartily welcome but you have to teach me….
In a nice company I like to to drink a bit but I do not like to be drunken or having drunken people on board. If crew on board does not want to drink and asks not to drink at all: this in no problem for me…
I am a fairly good swimmer, I like to snorkel, just had my first 4 days training in freediving and I am open for cycling if there are somewhere rental bike available. I also like Yoga and meditation. My level of sportiness is pretty above average… Other sports I love are Mountainbike and Racebike, Alpine Skiing and a bit of Climbing (Bouldering) and Golfing. I added Triathlon to my sports experience- so fare on the shorter distances…
After my first experience in freediving I am pretty amazed… therefore it would be perfect to get a freediving buddy on board.
Another lifetime topics of mine is photography. I am there on a semi-professional level. Whenever I needed photography in my professional life it was most likely that I did it on my own - including studio work…
One remark on the „romance“ topic… I do respect crew who share in their profile „no romance“…. For me having an interesting exchange with nice people is more important than romance…. On the long run it would be great to find a soulmate for the trip around the world..
About the boat, the plans, and current crew
usually cleanhave a holidayshare experiencevisit remote placesseek adventurefulfill a dreamface challengeslive off the gridmulticultural
• The next trip to my boat is October November 2024 interrupted by a conference in Japan for 5-6 days
• The next trip after might be End of February 2025. The plan is to have at least 6-8 weeks. The idea of the trip is to go to El Nido and Coron.
• The first days will be in the boatyard to finish some projects… up to 2 weeks.. but hopefully much shorter
• helping hands are welcome...
• in the moment I am flexible with the exact timing so you can tell me your wishes…
The boat is a Tiki 38 build in the Philippines splashing water 2019. My Tiki 38 was renamed recently. During this procedure it gots the German flag certificate with the homeport of Stuttgart....
The last 2 years the boat got some upgrades for more comfort and safety. Unfortunately some repair work was necessary, too But I do not want to sacrifice the Wharram lifestyle of minimalism.
The current location is a perfect spot for this kind of work but I do want to leave as soon as these upgrades are done. But I do plan some extended sails in the region…
It will remain here until Q2 2025 at least, Than I am carrying some ideas for traveling in the current area.
One option is a trip to Japan… I am following La Vagabond on their trip to Japan… and I do have first hand informations from sailors who have been in Japan… i spent quite some time in Japan during my professional live and I love it.
Another option is to sail to Raja Amat and from there to Bali and Lombok.... maybe keeping Cebu/Danao City as "home base".. one option on the way to Raja Ampat is to go there via Palau..
And than moving westward…
The Med is on the bucket list but the great loop as well… and maybe race to Alaska…
What is expected of the crew
clean & tidydiscreeteasy-goingenthusiasticfit & healthyfriendlyorganisedrespectfulskilledtrustworthyconfident swimmergood communicatortravel light (little luggage)eager to learn & workpoliteLGBTIQA+ respectfulpositive outlookopen mindedsense of humorcan pay own expensesready to partyenjoy cookingdon't mind cleaninggood with maintenancewill not bring a friendwill not bring a petharmony
I do have substantial navigation skills from my time serving in the military. Another topic is weather evaluation. I studied 2 Semesters of Climatology during my university times… My personal goal is to avoid dangerous weather conditions as much as possible. Luckily the sail area of the current location hs too interesting spots every 20-30 nm - so perfect daysailing distances - and you should daysail there….
Therefore Crew with much more sailing experience is heartly welcome to join the adventure of sailing… maybe for the hole circumnavigation….
Generally spoken: i do want to do larger ocean crossings for circumnavigation - and I do not want to travel alone… therefore female crew is welcome - and for longer passages > 5-7 days I plan to be at least 3-4 people on board.
I am looking for crew (?) which shares the dream to explore the world by boat, connect with the awesome people on this planet and experience different cultures and styles of living.
Ideally you love at least some of the sports like I do…
My sportiness can be described as follow: for not sporty people I am quite sporty, for the really sporty people I am not matching their level by some margin…
Enjoying a powder day or carving freshly croomed slopes on any level, a 100km + bike ride would be great, some single trails with the mountain bike are my piece of cake… ANd I dream about another crossing of the alps…
But a sunset on the boat with an anchor beer or as sundowner, some grilled fish from the local fisherman, a glass of whine is awesome. In the morning some snorkeling around the boat or the island where the boat is at anchor quite early followed by some yoga on the front deck: great…
What are the locations I am dreaming of: I am dreaming of the Sri Lanka, the backwaters of Kerala, the Maledives, Mauritius and Seychelles, the Carribian, the great loop, but the Pacific Northwest as well… And Hawaii, French Polynesia and all these beautiful places of the Pacific. And not forgetting Australia and New Zealand…
What are the places you want to experience?
Do I look for crew?
I do not sail alone… just for safety…
But on the long run I am looking for soulmate to join the journey, the lifestyle and me…
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