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Atlantic crossing, Skillbuild Training & Newbie Opportunity | May Newssplash
Published 20 days ago • 6 min read
May Full Moon Splash - 2026
Ocean Nomad Meet-uppie in Fuerteventura with Jonte, Jacky & Suzie & how proud we are of Menno refitting a beauty of a vessel (volunteers welcome!). Check into the ON Map for more!
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.
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.
"a huge help to navigate this whole new ocean world." - Julie
"Getting an insight into sailing community, what goes on at the docks, what to look out for. How to avoid bad experiences, how to be picky. There’s a lot things in the course that made me feel more secure for my trip. It was the best week of my life.” – Jesse
Stories, Projects, Connections & Support
From ON Community
Here's a snapshot of the latest from our member network (Login / Jointo 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...
🙋♀ 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!
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...
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...
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==
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
A splash to bring more ocean adventure, impact and community into your life. Our Full Moon Newsletter is a place we share our insights, tips and stories from inside our Ocean Nomads sailing and outdoor travel community.
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Hey Reader, I'm writing this from my van by the ocean. The wind is shaking it a bit. Feels like being on a boat again. And it made me think of something I see all the time. Most people who dream about sailing never actually get on a boat. Not because they don't want it. They just don't know where to start. You're on this list because we crossed paths somewhere. Maybe sailing is still on your mind. Or just that feeling of wanting a life lived differently, with nature. Or maybe you're living it...
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