Come sailing with Ocean sailing expeditions

Our mission: To sail with everyday people to rare and remote places, to participate with passion in ocean races and adventures and undertake expeditions we’ll remember and treasure, for the rest of our lives.

Join us onboard the 50 - 72 foot sailing yachts; Andar, Awen, Silver Fern and Te Kaihōpara or the 105-foot Superyacht, Sea Breeze III, for the adventure of a lifetime. Whether its a sailing passage down Australia's East Coast, a 200-yacht regatta around the Whitsunday Islands, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, a cruise through the Pacific Islands, Marlborough Sounds or Hauraki Gulf, a Tasman Sea crossing or circumnavigating Australia and New Zealand. Join us onboard, for an incredible adventure.

Ocean Sailing Expeditions $282,240 black friday $1 reserve auction 

It’s November and Black Friday sales are here again. Following our wildly successful mid-year Australian End of Financial Year Auction, we are back with our first ever Black Friday Sailing Adventure Auction.

With 21 sailing trips valued at $4,250 - $13,350 pp and 9 gift vouchers valued at $1,000 - $5,000 up for grabs, this promises to be our biggest 6-day sales event ever.

The biggest auction prize is a 7-day, fully crewed, private charter, for 10 people, of the 105-foot superyacht Sea Breeze III, around the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand or Yasawa Islands, Fiji, valued at $100,000. Find out more.

join Upcoming sailing adventures

Whether your next step is an ocean race or offshore passage, we have a growing calendar of exciting events on our 64 - 105 foot cruising, racing and expedition sailing and motor yachts, Andar, Awen, Silver Fern, Te Kaihōpara and Sea Breeze III;

Join the crew for a sailing event:

• Hobart to Sydney: 21 Nov - 3 Dec 2024

• Whangarei to Sydney: 22 Nov - 2 Dec 2024

• Islands of the Hauraki Gulf: 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2024

• Great Barrier & Great Mercury Islands: 29 Dec - 7 Jan 2025

• Hobart to Sydney: 11 - 21 Jan 2025

• Hauraki Gulf & Sail GP: 12 - 20 Jan 2025

• Southwest Tasmania: 18 - 31 Jan 2025

• Auckland to Opua: 31 Jan - 4 Feb 2025

• Bay of Islands & Hauraki Gulf: 11 - 22 Feb 2025

• Islands of the Hauraki Gulf: 23 - 30 Mar 2025

• Opua to Kermadecs, Minerva Reef & Tonga: 28 Mar - 10 Apr 2025

• Islands of the Hauraki Gulf: 4 - 7 Apr 2025

• Kingdom of Tonga: 16 - 29 Apr 2025

• Opua to Kermadecs, Minerva Reef & Fiji: 30 Apr - 15 May 2025

• Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands & Papeete: 12 - 30 May 2025

• Yasawa Islands, Fiji: 24 May - 1 Jun 2025

Book a berth for a superyacht cruise

• Islands of the Hauraki Gulf: 7 - 10 Feb 2025

• Bay of Islands & Hauraki Gulf: 24 Feb - 4 Mar 2025

• Islands of the Hauraki Gulf: 4 - 7 Apr 2025

• Yasawa Islands, Fiji: 7 - 18 Jun 2025

• Yasawa Islands, Fiji: 6 - 13 Jul 2025

For a full summary of the 2024 - 2027 events, check the sailing calendar. Take advantage of our lowest price guarantee, by booking early and securing the best crew price.

AUSTRALIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION 2026-27 / 13-MONTHS / 15-LEGS / 2-YACHTS

After successfully sailing 8,500nm and 5 legs, with 2 yachts in 2023, we completed our first Australian Circumnavigation in under 4 months. With the lessons learned, we've completely redesigned the next edition in 2026/27. This new 13 month odyssey, made up of 15 individual legs, will dive even deeper into the rarest and remotest parts of the Australian Coastline, taking in offshore islands and reefs was well.

Our crews share a daily blog, photos and videos from our sailing adventures. We share the adventures as the stories unfold and it’s fascinating to check out what happens behind the scenes on our sailing expeditions. Every adventure and every crew are unique, so no two challenges are the same. Our live tracker updates boat speed and true wind every 15 minutes.

You can follow our updates at Sailing.Blog or Facebook.

Listen to the ocean sailing podcast

The Ocean Sailing Podcast is designed for people who love to cruise, race or explore the worlds oceans. It’s also for those yet to experience the joy of sailing and those no longer able to cast off their dock lines and head for the open sea. Each episode is packed with great stories, tips, lessons and the colourful characters that go sailing in all forms.

Join now and listen free to the Ocean Sailing Podcast episodes.

The Ocean Sailing Expeditions Youth Sailing Scholarship Program has been designed to introduce young people to ocean sailing expeditions and blue water passages. Our goal, (when we have spare capacity onboard) is to expose young people to offshore sailing at a young age and provide them with experiences and skills, that may help shape their future sporting and occupational choices. While its exciting to read about or watch ocean sailing online, the magic only happens when you experience it. We hope that removing barriers for young people helps provide opportunities they may not otherwise consider.

Find out more and apply.

The story of how Ocean Sailing Expeditions got started, where the idea came from, the 72-foot Silver Fern project, why people come sailing offshore with us and what's next with our upcoming expeditions and adventures and more about the criteria for joining the crew for a race, passage, expedition or regatta.

Live expedition Tracker

Follow each yacht’s sailing adventures on the live Predict Wind GPS Tracker. With Predict Wind and Starlink its easy to put weather routing, departure planning and live location tracking into one technology package. I love it because I can use any messenger app on my iPhone for phone calls, email and messaging and its all part of the same subscription package.

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