Who’s sailing
There are seven of us now. Five days on the ocean need 5–6 people, so that watches last 2–3 hours rather than four. Free berths per leg: 4 / 3 / 1.
Dates are approximate: give or take a day or two, depending on the weather.
Amateur navigator and chronicler
whole passage
Backend engineer from Lisbon. Put together the route, the calendar and this website. Says he’s an old hand at rolling seas — it’s a flat calm that scares him.
Organiser
whole passage
Heads product and technology at Yango Play, lives in Dubai, a graduate of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology). Found and booked the boat, runs the logistics and the calls. Plans to work on the way, but is taking leave for half of the trip.
Crew
whole passage or one leg
Sailing with Ivan. Deciding between the whole trip and one leg — the ocean or the Canaries.
Skipper
whole passage
Has ocean experience and is just back from the Azores. Knows this boat from his previous job in charter management in Ibiza. His signature line: “You can’t ask them to stop the planet so you can get off.”
Crew
Gibraltar → Tenerife (ocean and Canaries), ~24 Oct – 7 Nov
Lives and works in Bulgaria. Crewed with Sasha from Menorca to Mallorca; he holds a skipper’s licence and is just starting out on that path. He’s most looking forward to the ocean crossing and the Canaries — and to Gibraltar and Cádiz as well.
Crew
The last week in the Canaries, ~31 Oct – 7 Nov (the whole trip is undecided, to be settled in October)
An experienced sailor holding a bareboat skipper licence — one more pair of steady hands at the helm. Joining together with Egor.
Crew
The last week in the Canaries, ~31 Oct – 7 Nov (the whole trip is undecided, to be settled in October)
ML engineer who heads AI at Avatarify; previously built computer vision at Yandex. MIPT (Phystech) graduate. An experienced sailor, joining together with Katya.
Priority goes to those sailing all the way from Ibiza to Tenerife, but the Mediterranean, the ocean and the Canaries can also be done separately: the legs connect through airports. No experience needed.
One shared pot for everyone aboard, split equally. Dinners ashore and bars are on you. Flights are on you too.
What the kitty covers
per person, estimate
Estimate: depends on how many people are aboard (the more, the cheaper) and on marina prices; we settle on actuals, by receipts.
Days and airports are in the calendar, what to pack is on the gear page.
Ready-made message
Hi! I’d like to join the whole passage, 17 October — 7 November. What do I need to do to come aboard?
Mediterranean ≈ 17–25 Oct
4 free
Ocean ≈ 25–31 Oct
3 free
Canaries ≈ 31 Oct – 7 Nov
1 free
Day legs have no watch rota: everyone is on deck or working in the saloon, and the night is spent in a marina. On the four overnight passages — Ibiza → Cartagena, Cartagena → Gibraltar (two days non-stop), five days of ocean and Lanzarote → Gran Canaria, 9 nights at sea in total — watches rotate, 2–3 hours each; on the first night, in pairs. The skipper doesn’t stand a scheduled watch — he backs everyone up and sleeps in snatches, which is why an extra crew member matters to him more than to anyone.
Scans the horizon every 10 minutes, keeps an eye on AIS and the autopilot’s course, the sails and the wind. Clipped on. Never leaves the cockpit alone. Wakes the skipper at the slightest doubt.
Sleeps, eats, reads, works over Starlink. Cooks in the daytime when it’s their turn. Doesn’t distract the watchkeeper with talk about the meaning of life after 2 a.m.
One breakfast, one dinner, the washing-up. Simple menu: pasta, rice, tinned stewed meat with vegetables, sandwiches. Whoever cooks doesn’t wash up.