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Atlantic Sailing with our Impact & Community fleet | Autumn 2025
3 weeks & 19 Ocean Adventurers uniting for a full ON Ocean Adventure & Lifestyle Experience to level up your sailing skills, confidence, connections and contribution to a healthier ocean.
Join a community-driven offshore sailing expedition from the Balearic Islands to the Canary Islands. This isn't just a trip. it's an opportunity to:
- Gain Hands-On Sailing Experience: Participate actively in all aspects of sailing, from navigation to watchkeeping.
- Build Lifelong Connections: Forge meaningful relationships with like-minded ocean adventurers.
- Embrace Sustainable Living: Learn and practice eco-conscious sailing and lifestyle choices.
- BE ready with experience, contacts, skills and references for a real Atlantic Crossing if that's the dream (we have a collaboration with vessels for Atlantic Crossings too)
THE Ocean Nomads event of 2025! Set sail into the Atlantic Ocean with us on a live-aboard lifestyle trip with a mix of Coastal AND Offshore adventure sailing, exploration, skill building, networking, fun, and sharing stories, skills and ideas. We plan 3 weeks for this trip so we can go with the wind. No tight schedule. Raw, real salty liveaboard life. And, of course, with all the ocean nomads' vibes & values integrated into the adventure.
?Mallorca to Tenerife | October 12 - 31 | 2 - 3 Vessels | All experience levels welcome!
Why join ON ATLANTIC?
If you’re looking for more than just a sailing trip or training, Ocean Nomads offers adventurous sailing and skill-building experiences to help you realize sailing lifestyle dreams with impact and community. Whether you’re dreaming of crossing oceans as crew, improving your skills to become a skipper, or embracing a sustainable life at sea on your own boat, our trips provide opportunity to get closer to your goals faster with lots of exciting elements in the mix.
All levels welcome: We are creating a balanced mixed crew team with different skillsets and experience levels for maximum ripple effects, making this trip equally valuable for newbies and long term salty sailors. Sailing experience is just one element of creating an adventure impact fleet. We welcome newbies and long term sailors
Learn from the real deal: Guided by long term dedicated Ocean Nomads ambassadors who are Yachtmaster skippers (and some of them boat owners), embody the ocean nomads lifestyle and spirit giving their all. You learn way more beyond the ability to navigate a boat. The full ON lifestyle design insights, tricks, and connections are at your finger tips.
Epic Route: Sailing from the Med INTO the Atlantic across the Strait of Gibraltar is quite an epic adventure! And that's just part of the trip. Together with you and the weather we create a beautiful route in the Balearics, Coastal Andalucia, perhaps Madeira and one or two Canary Islands. And ofcourse experiencing the big blue!
Personal growth & Skill development: Confidence. Skills. Seamanship. World view expansion. Learn and hands-on practice all about sailing, seamanship, and ocean lifestyle design.
Adventure Meets Education: Skill-building blended with education and exploration.
Community: Share the adventure and learn together with other ocean nomads sharing values and vibes to live conscious with nature. Connections at sea go deeper in one day then on weeks on land. Many joining have become life long friends, or even partners in business, love or life.
More people, more fun, learning, and impact: You can sail with 2,3, or 5 people. This is fun. We’ve done it. We’ve organized it. But going on an adventure with around 19 salty souls all as stoked about ocean sailing as you are is next level community living and socializing. Conversations and connections at sea go deeper in one day then in weeks on land. You’ll always find a few souls you get along with well.
Impact: Together we make efforts to shine in the sustainability element + part of your contribution goes to an Ocean Nomads Impact Project, which you vote for on the trip.
The Ripple Effects Connections and insights made on Ocean Nomads trips often open up new paths, crew and skipper opportunities with yours truly, and life-changing pivots.
WE GO THE EXTRA MILE TO...
Unite Likeminded Adventure People
Throughout our expeditions we bring together a unique mix of inspirational individuals talents and knowledge of the group. We release the power from the individual talents and knowledge into the group, for maximum learning experience.
We select participants based on motivation, drive, and mindset.
Make Ocean Adventure Accessible
No sailing experience is required. We happily teach. We believe that if more people get a chance to experience the ocean and all the magic that comes with it, the ocean wins more hearts. We like for you to see for yourself how beautiful the ocean are. And hopefully ignites a superpower within you to take steps into a conscious nomadic life in or near the sea. Voyages range between 7 days and one month. From offshore sailing to crossing oceans to exploring remote paradise islands. We provide a platform for nature connection, community, research, creation, while going remote. No budget? We have a scholarship option too.
Prioritize Safety
The ocean deserves our greatest respect. Sailing remotely is an endeavour not to be taken lightly. We team up with the best skippers to combine professionalism, safety, and adventure, impact and community facilitation. Offshore we keep contact and update relatives about the trip.
Gain fresh perspectives on life, perhaps a different lifestyle choice or course, and last but not least, lots of memorable moments added to your life profit.
This is not just an expedition you join for a few weeks and that’s it. This is an experience that will change the way you approach life, nature and the ocean. We believe our ON expeditions are just the beginning for plotting the next course in your life. By jumping on board this voyage, you will also join our expanding global network of impact-driven travellers, ocean entrepreneurs, sailors, (free)divers, surfers, and active salty souls passionate about the ocean and eager to do good. Our community exists out of total newbies and seasoned liveaboards, supporting each other in our ambitions. We continue the conversation, action, personalized advisory and connection building, team-ups and meet-ups beyond our events and expeditions to maximize the impact, fun, and ripple effects for ocean adventure and action. We got your back on this expedition and the journey after.
Who's joining?
It’s the people who make the adventure. This is the main message Suzanne learned after having sailed 30.000 miles on +50 different boats. We carefully curate a diverse, multi-skilled crew who share a similar mindset, to create a powerful team mix. It makes the difference.
We live beyond the status quo or desire to do so. We care for the planet. Minimize, simplify and cut down on our environmental footprint where we can. We lift each other up and support each other when in need.
Are you?
Adventurer & explorer
Alternative lifestyle seeker
Striving to do good
Excited to share skills and stories
Eager to learn, share and care
Hands-on mindset
Ambitious
Then we're looking forward to hear from you!
Important! We receive a tremendous amount of interest. Time is precious. Please explore our website to learn about the costs and expectation for this voyage before reaching out. To make these voyages real, contribution is required (Don't worry. This one is way less than the average charter or sailing course). And If that doesn't fit your budget, keep an eye for other similar valued trips we facilitate, communicate, or apply for a scholarship which we facilitate where possible.
We’re now assembling the crew. Let us hear from you!
What does previous crew has to say?
"” This was one of the most epic experiences of my life so far, and I can tell it is just the beginning. The ocean has taught me so many lessons…to embrace all experiences (even seasickness), not worry so much, and just be in the moment. Two weeks without connection to the outside world was absolutely glorious. I feel reset. After a very fragmented life the past few years, being around a crew of 17 people every day was amazing…to interact naturally with each other, feel a part of a family of diverse ages, nationalities and backgrounds…I learned so much from these amazing humans. My heart feels so full.” – Sael
“The most unforgettable week. The trip preparation and the crew members turned what would otherwise be an adventure into something a bit more special. To say it was life changing sounds dramatic but it really was. Being able to share time and experiences with people with different backgrounds but of a similar mindset was incredible. I like to think that I can have and help contribute to a similar experience for myself and others as a member of the crew.” – Ben (Lanzarote & Croatia 2019)
"Still smiling at the memories! Met – and still talking to – some lovely people. Refreshed my nautical skills (helming, navigation, astro identification, etc.) Shared some great experiences through conversation, music, stories, yoga, cooking together, seeing ocean wildlife, and so much more!" – Richard (Expedition ON 2021)
"During my interview call with Suzanne for ExpeditionON with Twister last summer, I immediately knew I wanted to join the Ocean Nomads network and sailing adventure. Her energy and values were exactly what I was looking for and I could NOT wait to get onboard and meet everyone. As soon as I hung up the phone I thought to myself "This trip is going to change my life".... and it sure did. So I packed up my life into a duffle bag a few months later, boarded Twister in Madeira and set sail towards The Canary Islands.
Long story short, after I hopped on Twister and sailed off into the sunset, I was surrounded by amazing people and had the complete feeling of freedom I had hoped for. With little convincing from fellow ON members during one of the monthly meetups, I also decided to take their advice and spend the winter in the canaries. This included...renting a caravan with fellow Nomad Cay, sailing on Bluepearl with Captain Wolfgang , Thomas, Robert, Kyra, and meeting Jacky, Eoin, Luca, Sael and of course Suzanne.
My lifelong dream has been to spend time outside of the US, explore different places, meet , new people and just live somewhere different than what I grew up with. If you told me this time last year that I would have spent the better part the last 365 days sailing around The Canary Islands,surfing in Ireland, sleeping in a van ALONE in England and writing this newsletter on an island in the Adriatic Sea, I would have rolled my eyes at you. But after joining Ocean Nomads a little over a year ago my life has done a complete 180° ( in the best way possible) and I have the network and so many of you to thank for that!" - Brianna
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