SailTies Adventures, the sailing trip marketplace built by sailors for sailors, has officially launched at www.sailties.net/adventures. Berths are available from £300, with trips spanning racing, expedition, cruising and sail training across six continents.

Finding a berth on a sailing adventure has always been possible, but finding the right one has never been easy. Trips by the berth and cabin have existed for years, scattered across individual operators, sailing clubs, word of mouth and obscure corners of the internet. For most sailors, and certainly for anyone new to sailing travel, navigating that landscape has been time-consuming, unreliable and, more often than not, fruitless.

SailTies Adventures puts the entire market in one place. The platform brings together professionally crewed trips from vetted operators worldwide, all bookable by the berth or cabin, with the transparency and simplicity that the sector has lacked. No need to fund a whole boat. No group to organise. In many cases, little or no sailing experience is required at all. Just find the trip, book your place, and go.

This approach makes the full range of sailing travel genuinely accessible. A solo traveller can join an offshore racing crew for a transatlantic passage. A couple can take two berths on an expedition voyage to East Greenland. Sailors looking to build their qualifications can find RYA Day Skipper courses anywhere from the Solent to the Philippines. The range of possibilities is broad, price points vary enormously, and the offering is growing every week.

The venture was developed by the team behind SailTies, the sailing logbook and tracking app. The same technology-first ethos that built SailTies into a platform sailors rely on daily now underpins a marketplace designed to do for sailing travel what small-group adventure travel has done for the wider outdoors industry: make extraordinary experiences bookable, accessible and affordable without sacrificing the quality or authenticity that makes them worth doing.

Dozens of trips are already live across six continents, spanning offshore racing, blue-water cruising, polar expeditions, sail training, coastal adventure and everything in between, with new operators joining the platform regularly.

Mike Pickering, brought in to lead the commercial launch of SailTies Adventures, has watched this market develop from the inside. As co-founder of kraken.travel, he spent years building the case that demand for individual berths on sailing trips was substantial and underserved.

“The trips have always existed. What hasn’t existed is a single, reliable place to find them,” said Mike. “SailTies Adventures fixes that. Book a berth, turn up, and go sailing. The crew are sorted. The boat is ready. All that’s left is the experience itself. I’ve followed Thomas and Chris since they launched SailTies as a tracking app, and the rigour they’ve brought to building this is exactly what the market has needed. There is an assumption that a technology platform means you’re dealing with an algorithm and a chatbot, but the people behind SailTies are sailors. We understand the landscape, the operators, and what customers actually need from a trip. The technology makes it scalable. The people make it trustworthy.”

Chris Jacobs, co-founder of SailTies, added: “Everything we build starts from being sailors ourselves, and we know how hard it has been to find the kind of trips that inspire you. SailTies Adventures exists to fix that. By sailors, for sailors, and now for anyone who has ever looked at the ocean and wanted to be out on it. Honestly, after this launch I’m already looking at booking a few trips myself.”

Thomas Guy, co-founder, has led the technical development of the platform from its origins as a logbook and tracking app through to the full adventures marketplace it is today.

SailTies Adventures is live now at www.sailties.net/adventures and on the iOS version of the SailTies app, and it will become available on Android from July.

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