Are you ready for a taste of the true cruising lifestyle?
Have you been dreaming of the open space and incredible freedom that comes with living and traveling on a sail boat?
How about longing for the fresh, crisp sea air and perfect turquoise blue waters that can only be found at anchor in front of a lush green tropical island?
If this sounds familiar, you are on the precipice of the adventure of a lifetime!
Not Just A Sailing Charter
As you may be aware, with the right qualifications, you can rent a bare sail boat for a week of vacation. While this is a wonderful way to unwind from ‘normal’ life, it is a world away from the cruising life.
Sail a true blue water catamaran
Learn (or practice) how to sail a 47ft catamaran that has crossed oceans and anchored in remote atolls.
Discover the art of passage planning, sail handling and navigation as we passage through big seas, open waters and tight anchorages.
discover all the other stuff under the sails
Unlike a bare-bones charter boat, Indioko is a home with all the systems you need to live completely off-grid.
Gain the essential knowledge of how to maintain all the systems you will need to cruise without relying on someone coming to help.
Pick our brains
Before taking the leap and moving onboard, hear from a couple who have done it already.
We love to share our experiences from the genesis to current day. We haven’t done it all but we know exactly what you will go through to step off land.
meet the cruising community
Your new family awaits. You are about to set out on a truly unique adventure but you are not alone.
Enjoy meeting others who are already living a life upon the waves and hearing their stories from far flung places.
Who Are We?
If you haven’t come across us before, you can get a feel for who we are through one of our YouTube episodes and reading our little bio’s below.
We have been full-time cruising since 2020, have covered over a thousand nautical miles, faced squalls, high seas and run aground (we all make mistakes!)
Our love of sharing our adventure stems from the hope it inspires people like you to take that last step and open a world of freedom ahead.
Iain
Captain
Learning every day, Iain has one of those inquisitive minds that isn’t happy with ‘it just works’. That has paid off as we add and maintain multiple systems onboard.
Brioni
First Mate
A teacher in a previous life, Brioni loves nothing more than unlocking others’ potential. You will be hard pushed to find a more positive, creative and optimistic person.
Indioko
Our Floating Home
A Leopard 47 (2005), Indioko is a proven blue water cruiser. Stable in high seas, comfortable at anchor and brilliantly spacious inside, she served life as a bareboat charter vessel before being rescued by Iain and Brioni who have built her back to find her true calling.
What We Offer
The Cruiser Experience is not like chartering a boat for a week. It’s not a sailing school either.
We offer the rare opportunity to be fully immersed in the cruising lifestyle; to live and breathe an experience that so few are able to make a reality.
YouTube and movies will have you believe it is all sun tans and dolphins… and sometimes it is, but to live a full-time cruising life means you see what happens when the cameras aren’t on and you don’t have the luxury of the editing
software.
By joining us onboard Indioko, you step into an honest world, where you see exactly what it takes to keep a bluewater boat afloat. We will try to find the dolphins too though.
During your stay, we will sail to some of the most beautiful anchorages that the charter companies don’t tell you about, experience the thrill of sailing in open waters and sample the true cruiser life at its fullest.
Before selling up and setting sail, the Cruiser Experience is the best possible way to confirm this is the life for you. During your stay, we encourage you to pick our brains about everything, from finances to mechanics. While we don’t
claim to know it all, we have certainly been faced with most of it.
What is included?
We tailor the Cruiser Experience to meet your needs. There is no ‘one size fits all’ and cruising can be done on a champagne or a beer budget. We will have several opportunities to chat with you and build the perfect program to make
sure you gain the invaluable knowledge and experience you need to take the leap.
And it’s not just a week. Following your time onboard, we offer to assist in finding your perfect floating home. We can help identify key aspects that are important to you as well as share our tailor built ‘Buying Budget Planner’ to
speed up the decision process. We will be there every step of the way should you need someone to bounce your ideas off during the purchase process.
All this comes as part of your Cruiser Experience.
Boat handling
Help convincing your PARTNER
sailing skills
anchoring, mooring and docking
SAFETY ONBOARD
VHF RADIO SKILL
NIGHT SAILING / LONG PASSAGES
ENGINE SERVICING
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM DESIGN
PROVISIONING
& COOKING
BOAT BUYING ASSISTANCE
PASSAGE PLANNING
It’s Not All Hard Work
While there will be so much information readily on hand for you to learn and digest, it’s important to remember that cruising is about the experience of adventure, the new and the now. Here are a few photos to awaken your sense of discovery and remind you what your time onboard will really be like.
What’s Included?
When you are ready to contact us, we will arrange a call with you to discuss your Cruiser Experience. Our goal will be to better understand what you hope to draw from your time onboard and confirm that we can help you on your journey
to the cruising life.
Following this call, we can discuss travel options and likely cruising areas in which to spend your time onboard. Again, this is not a charter and so we will identify the best travel links to the location Indioko will be on the date
of your booking.
At this time, we ask you for a non refundable deposit/booking fee of US$1000. This places a block on the dates agreed and holds your spot on Indioko for your true Cruiser Experience.
What’s Included
The basis of the Cruiser Experience we offer includes :
Queen Cabin with En Suite
Your own private double cabin with en suite shower and head.
Power outlets, fan and hatch directly out to the trampolines for a cool fresh breeze every morning.
Custom Itinerary
Through discussion with you, we will build the perfect itinerary to achieve the goals you set for your Cruiser Experience.
Nothing is set in stone; weather, tides and currents can all play a part.
Sailing Experience
Passage planning, helming, sail handling and boat manoeuvring are all integral skills to practise.
You will have many opportunities to practise all of these with the added comfort of one of us by your side should anything unexpected occur.
Meals and Soft Drinks Onboard
Together, we will provision for your stay and cook up home meals onboard. You are welcome to assist in the galley as much or as little as you like.
We keep a stock of soft drinks (sodas, fruit juices, cordials and water) which are freely available onboard.
Entertainment
All work and ALL play.
We have a selection of water toys including SUP boards, a sub wing, snorkelling gear and a giant inflatable dragon. Music and movies are readily on hand too.
Pick our Brains
Our goal is for you to leave with answers to all those questions you have (and some you don’t yet have), so we put ourselves at your disposal to ask us anything and to expect an honest answer.
*The cost does not include flights, airport transfers, alcohol, excursions (diving, tours ashore etc) and any meals on land.
7 Day Cruiser Experience
US$6000 (per couple)!
(contact us for longer bookings)
FAQs
Here are just some of the questions we have been asked about the Cruiser Experience: