Share a Yacht Holidays

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Share a Yacht or "Pot Luck" holidays are for experienced sailors, often traveling on their own and who are happy to share with others to make up the crew of a yacht. These holidays are not intended for beginners, or those with only very limited sailing experience (we offer the Learn to Sail option for those people) and ideally anybody choosing one of these options should be at a basic skippering level. You sail as part of a flotilla with the emphasis on good sailing by day with the social side of a flotilla in the evenings. These trips are particularly suited to newly qualified skippers looking to get experience of being in charge themselves, and are a very cost effective way of having a sailing holiday.

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How the Programme works

• We offer Share a Yacht Holidays on a number of weeks during the season and these are show in the chart below. We do not run them on all weeks but limit the number of dates available, so that we get more like minded people on the dates that we do run, giving a better mix to crew the yachts with.

• The yachts that we use for the Share a Yacht trips are always yachts from our In House Fleet and all start from Murter in Croatia. Based on the information given at the time of booking we make up the crews to get what seems to be the best mix depending on ages, experience etc

• We will use any of our yachts that are free, with the number of people on board depending on the yacht size. For example there will be a maximum of three on board if it is a 31ft yacht (two cabins plus saloon), and five if it is one of the larger 34ft + yachts (three cabins plus saloon).

• The price of the holiday is a per person cost payable at the time of booking, plus an on site cash payment which is to cover, fuel (which is included), yacht security insurance, and end cleaning. Each yacht must then pay their own mooring and marina fees as they go along and as these vary from about £75 to £120 for the week, so we suggest allowing £30 to £45 per person for this.

• All flotillas start on Saturday's meaning that you join the yacht on a Saturday, but then do not sail until the Sunday morning. You return to the same port that you started from (unless stated otherwise at the time of booking) the following Friday afternoon having had six full days sailing, spend the last night on board, and then depart the following morning by 0930hrs.

• All Share a Yacht's sail as part of the flotilla, and are under the overall guidance of the flotilla skippers.

• A minimum of two people are required for a Share a Yacht Holiday.. As most people booking are traveling alone, we can therefore only take the first booking on the basis that if for any reason there is only one person booked for a Share a Yacht week, that you are prepared to go on board one of the Learn to Sail boats instead. As you cannot sail a yacht on your own, this is the only way that we can take a booking from just one person and guarantee that you still get your sailing holiday. For anybody that specifically does not want this latter possibility, if you are the first person enquiring about any particular week, we are happy to hold an option without any deposit, until we have others enquiring about the same date. We will then contact you so that a definite booking can be made.

• The table below shows dates and prices. Weeks with a red Status are definite Share A Yacht weeks while, those with a Blue Status are proposed weeks. Proposed weeks are either weeks that we are suggesting, or are weeks that have been specifically requested by somebody.

• If at any time somebody is interested in having a Share a Yacht on a particular week that we have not listed, all you need to do is email us and if we have yachts free we can change one of the other proposed dates to the date requested instead while we wait to see if others are also interested in that particular week. For this reason proposed dates are liable to change, so if you are interested in a specific date, it is important to let us know so that we can hold an option, without any commitment on your part, for you. Once at least two people are interested in a proposed date, then we will let you know so that you can confirm the booking and this date will then change to a definite week. This is necessary as there have to be at least two people booked before a Share a Yacht can operate.