May Full Moon Splash - 2026

Hello Ocean Nomads Friends, Family & Fans!

Welcome to the May Flower Moon News splash! Spring is in the air. Trips are being planned. Ocean Nomads are meeting up, we just launched a new splashy website, and the Atlantic Crossing is confirmed! And how exciting is all of that! Zero to Ocean Nomad course + community is open for enrollment one more day, and we have community members welcoming you on board! Explore a snapshot of insights, tips and stories in this newssplash, to bring ocean exploration, impact and community into your life.

With Ocean Love 💙, Team ON

In this splash:

Community Exchanges, Adventures & Stories Sail Greece, Tasmania & Work Exchanges Community Ripples Human Space Dynamics at Sea Tools Upcoming Trips! Sailboat Manouvre Training, Caribbean Sailing, Atlantic Crossing, Horseback Riding & Surf Step into sailing life. Independent & Adventure style. Zero to Ocean Nomad hatch is open 1 more day!

Course + Community + Mentorship

Zero to Ocean Nomad

Be Ocean Ready! The tools, compass, skills and tips that take you from dreaming about sailboat life to actually living it, soon and sustainable. The starting point for those dreaming to dip toes into sailinglife. Everything we've learned and the connections made over 10+ years of sailing.

A few new extra 2026 goodies:

🥥 Interactive Route & Season Planner. Where to crew when and best ports to get on board.
🥥 Safety Scorecard. Assess any boat and captain for a good & safe match.
🥥 AI Crew Coach. Ask anything, anytime.
🥥 The Atlantic Crew & Captain Survey Report. A decade of data, stories, and lessons from 131 sailors who actually crossed.
🥥 Long-term nomad life tricks. How to make this lifestyle work financially, mentally, and energetically.
🥥 Staying healthy at sea. From provisioning to sleep to seasickness.

Spring offer (with personal guidance option) & hatch open until tomorrow night (May 3!) for lifetime access.

Stories, Projects, Connections & Support

From ON Community

Here's a snapshot of the latest from our member network (Login / Join to explore more, connect & make impact).

Projects & Adventures | Notice Board

Service exchange. On offer all inclusive holiday in a picturesque postcard on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. In exchange for sailing experience. Hi there ocean nomad’s peeps. I am currently looking for hands on deck to help me get the hang of sailing my beautiful boat Bob A.K.A Osprey. I literally live in a postcard (see first picture). My flat (X... Read Article

🙋‍♀ Will anyone be in #MALTA next week, around the 19th-22nd of April? I will be there and would love to meet up with other nomads if anyone happen to be around! Read Article

Volunteers Wanted The Sailing Vessle Kassandra is being renovated. It is a beautiful luxury sailing yacht from 1993, 54 feet long, made of steel, and with two masts. Do you want to help in this process? What will we be doing? In the coming weeks, it will mainly be painting work. After that, it becomes more technical with replacing valves and hoses and reinstalli... Read Article

Training in May - only 1 last place available! Take control of the boat. This is not a holiday trip.This is 5 days of real skill building. We focus on what actually matters when you’re out there:• Confident harbour manoeuvres• Anchoring in real conditions• Man overboard drills• Boat handling Group of 3 only. Hands-on. No passengers — only active... Read Article

Hi Ocean Nomads! 🩵 For those of you who are in the canaries, the amazing finca Encuentro is now looking for volunteers to help in their permaculture farm in Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz) Reminy Holmes and I have made wonderful memories there 🥰 https://www.instagram.com/finca_encuentro?igsh=MXVkNjVxd3hkenluZA== Read Article

Also up!

• Blair is welcoming Ocean Nomads to Sail Tasmania with him. Learn more & Contact Blair.​
• Wolfgang is back on board in the Canary Islands and welcoming Crew. Contact Wolfgang.​
• Keith is sailing Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores and welcoming Crew. Contact Keith.​
• Alexandros is welcoming crew sailing Greece this spring. Currently in Kalamata welcoming crew. Contact Alexandros​
• Thomas will be looking for crew later this year to be part of his mission to the Artic. Meet Thomas at our next ON meet-up.

​Explore our Notice Board for the latest opportunities and say hi in the next new moon meet-up to network beyond the published opportunities.

Community Home

Do you want to share your first sailing experience? My first sailing experience was in a dam in Madrid in 2020. I found a captain on the app Sailwiz, and every Saturday, I spent the whole morning learning with him. After sailing, I always went for a hike in the forest around, full of pine trees. I really loved to feel the adventure of sailing an... Read Article

🌊 Facilitation Tools to Improve Life Onboard ⛵ Hey Ocean Nomads Captains, Trip Organisers, Crew, We built a blueprint of facilitation tools to improve life onboard, and tested it during the Autumn 2025 ON trip — We’d love you to use it in your upcoming trips! If you're hosting or skippering a trip, you can use this material. These tools take some time and intention to embed in your trip, let... Read Article

Who would be excited to be part of this? Project Impact: Kitesurfing all the Canary Islands Big idea, maybe even a crazy one 🌊 As part of the road to the Atlantic Crossing by Kitesurf, I am thinking about kitesurfing between all of the Canary Islands this June or July (Total distance is about 200 nautical miles) Not for a record and not just for... Read Article

Resource Highlight

Meet-Up

Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 PM GMT+1 Monthly Meetup & Member Welcome Hosted by our Thomas van Thiel and Jonatan Bjorkman This online gathering is an opportunity to get to know fellow members in the Ocean Nomads community. The more we learn about each other, the better we can provide value and connect you to fellow community members who can be of help or support. I personally find these meetups so valuable, to put... RSVP

🌊 Do you have a project / adventure / ask or story? Share it in the member network . We're here being curious and helpful. Together we can!

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May 2026 | Amsterdam

Sailing Manoeuvre Training

Take control of the boat. 5 days of hands-on sailing manoeuvre training near Amsterdam: harbour entries, anchoring, man overboard drills, and boat handling. Led by Maciej & Thomas.

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Humans on a Sailing Expedition

Facilitation Tools to Improve Life Onboard

Some sailing trips stay with you for the rest of your life. Others you are mostly relieved to be off.

Learn more about faciliation tools to improve life on board. Practical and designed to make the human side of a sailing trip actually work. Created by ON ambassador Luca and fine tuned thanks to the participation of the ON Atlantic crew. We're curious to your feedback!

Sept '26 | Portugal

SALTY SADDLES​

This is a 7-day surf, horseback riding and sailing adventure in Northern Portugal, where ocean, land and community come together. Together with Ocean Nomads and Bonanza the land, we invite you into a week of nature connection, movement, and simple living, riding along empty beaches, surfing Atlantic waves, and sailing the lagoon.

May 2026 | Grenadines

Caribbean Sailing Adventure

Sail the Windward Islands on a catamaran with a small crew of like-minded adventurers. Island-hop from Martinique through the Grenadines, snorkelling, hiking, kitesurfing, and exploring remote bays only reachable by boat. A multi-adventure experience for those who want more than a holiday.

Canary Islands - Cape Verde - Tobago

Atlantic Crossing

It's confirmed! We are sailing around the Atlantic ocean again. Dates and details sailing into the Ocean Nomads community this May. Curious to what's it like? Check the pictures and highlights from our last crossing.

What we do it all for

Thanks you Wild Canary crew for making the first ON trip of 2026 a legendary one!

Explore All Trips

And check back soon. More to come!

A big splash thanks to all our members and trip alumni who have already joined us, sharing and caring for each other, the ocean, creating ripple effects together! 💙

Ps. We've redesigned our website with a splashy new vibe. Take a look.​