Crew & Sail Offshore
Voyaging belongs to seaman, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in...
59º North Sailing sets an ambitious schedule, sailing 10,000 miles per year making landfall in ports from the Caribbean to the Arctic, Bermuda, Europe, Cuba, Canada & beyond. So if you've dreamed of seeing stars down to the horizon, if you yearn to lose sight of land for days on end, if you want to unplug from the world ashore, then join us for the offshore sailing adventure of a lifetime.

Introducing ICE BEAR
Chief Brody was right - we ARE going to need a bigger boat! Read on to hear how getting a new Swan 59, christened ICE BEAR, is the most exciting news Andy & Mia have had since first starting the business with Isbjorn, their Swan 48.
Note: Dan is Isbjorn's oldest and most loyal crew. He was aboard for our first-ever passage to Lunenburg in 2015, and has sailed with us many times since, and is signed up for several more trips in 2019 & 2020. He was one of the first to hear the news about the new boat, and had a lot of questions for us! I've published our answers here:
Click on the maps below for specifics on that year's passages. Scroll down for the Airtable list of full bunk availability for all upcoming passages & our complete list of available expeditions.
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
Bunk Availability - ALL
All Upcoming Passages
2019
$4,000 // 10 days // 8 Crew Spaces. Join Andy Schell & Paul Exner and Liz Karamavros & Lee Cumberland along as mates, on a high-level ocean racing program in the heart of the Caribbean.
$3,000 // 7 Days // 6 Crew Spaces. Just announced! The first passage onboard the Swan 59 ICE BEAR.
$5,500 // 14 Days // 6 Total Crew Spaces. Join us on ICEBEAR for the 1,100 mile passage from Puerto Rico to Key West. A classic downwind, trade wind passage through the Old Bahama Channel.
$4,000 // 14 Days // 4 Total Crew Spaces. Join us on ISBJORN for the 1,100 mile passage from Puerto Rico to Key West. A classic downwind, trade wind passage through the Old Bahama Channel.
$4,500.00 // 11 Days // 10 Total Crew Spaces. Sail north to Bermuda! Join BOTH boats in historic, hippie Key West, and set off into the Gulf Stream, around the Bahamas and east into the Atlantic towards one of the classic ocean landfalls. Sailing there is the only real way to get to Bermuda after all!
$4,200 // 10 Days // 10 Total Crew Spaces. Join Isbjorn & Ice Bear in historic St Georges, Bermuda, for the 750-mile jaunt back to the Chesapeake. The passage back from Bermuda is usually reasonable weather this time of year, but it's long enough that you never know what it'll be like by the time we reach the Gulf Stream, so be mentally prepared for changing conditions as we head west. It'll be a warm-weather trip, maybe a little cool in the evenings offshore.
$3,400 // 8 Days // 6 Crew Spaces. Because we love the cool weather and incredible scenery of the Canadian Maritimes, we are going back to Nova Scotia & Newfoundland for a THIRD time in 2019!
It'll be an 850 nautical mile passage to the heart of the Canadian Maritimes on Ice Bear, our Swan 59. Lunenburg is loaded with history, and you'll be met on arrival by the fishing schooners of old and some seriously friendly folks. The water's refreshingly chilly for an early morning swim, and it's easy to come and go from the big airport in Halifax.
$3,400 // 9 Days // 6 Crew Spaces. This passage is the continuation leg of our earlier Annapolis-Lunenburg trip. We'll sail from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia some 600 miles further north and east to St. John's, Newfoundland.
$4,200.00 // 10 Days // 6 Crew Spaces. This 600-mile passage will be a combination of cruising and ocean sailing, so you'll get the best of both worlds. We'll start in St. John's, visit the French island of St. Pierre (like we did on Arcturus in 2011, and Isbjorn in 2016) and finish with a 350-mile passage to historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
$3,400 // 8 Days// 6 Crew Spaces. Join Ice Bear in historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for the final leg home following our voyage north to Newfoundland. An 850-mile, nonstop ocean passage.
$5,500 // 18 Days // 6 Crew Spaces. Ice Bear is heading south! Join the boat in Annapolis, MD and cruise down the Bay, either going nonstop and offshore, or stopping near the mouth of the Chesapeake to wait for a weather window. Once offshore, it's 1,400 miles of serious ocean sailing, finishing in the tropical Caribbean! (Finish port TBD).
$4,250 // 10 Days // 4 Crew. Join Mia & Andy and visit some of their favorite Caribbean islands that they got to know so well during their Broadreach days. This trip will be a combination of offshore passagemaking & exploration ashore, including hiking ashore, lobster cookouts in the Grenadines, & swimming with sea turtles. If we have the opportunity, we'll hire a local guide ashore for some hiking and exploring.
$4,250 // 10 Days // 4 Crew. Re-trace the route we sailed in 2017 on Isbjorn, from the Caribbean to Bermuda, one of the nicest, warmest and most reliable-breeze open ocean passages we've had!
$4,250 // 10 Days // 4 Crew. The classic route home to the east coast from Bermuda. Enjoy lovely St Georges, check the weather, then we’ll head west and across the Gulf Stream before finishing the trip up the Chesapeake Bay and into Isbjorn’s home waters.
$4,500 // 11 Days // 8 Crew. Race down the Chesapeake and across the Gulf Stream to Bermuda onboard our S&S Swan 48 Isbjorn, one of the all-time classic ocean racing machines! We try to get in one big ocean race per year, and this will be our first point-to-point race after having completed the RORC 600 a few times. Racing offshore takes ocean sailing to another level, and the teamwork element of it makes it a once-in-a-lifetime experience!
$4,250 // 10 Days // 4 Crew. It's deep Atlantic all the way from Bermuda to Nova Scotia. Join Isbjorn in beautiful St. Georges, Bermuda, one of the famous landfalls in the Atlantic for boats coming and going to the Caribbean & Europe. We'll spend a day or two rigging Isbjorn for heavy weather, then set out due north for a 750-mile passage to Canada.
$3,400 // 8 Days // 4 Crew. Join Isbjorn in Lunenburg where we'll begin the journey of retracing our trans-Atlantic voyage on Arcturus from 2011. We'll sail first to St. Pierre, the last vestige of France's outpost in North America. After filling up on wine and cheese there, we'll continue north and east around Cape Race, ending the passage in St. John's, Newfoundland. Along the way we'll lookout for whales, seals & puffins galore!
$7,500 // 19 Days // 4 Crew. This will be Isbjorn's 3rd time across the Atlantic (Mia's 6th, and Andy's 5th!). We'll be retracing the route from our first-ever voyage in Arcturus in 2011, from Canada to the south coast of Ireland, where Crookhaven, a small village near the famous Fastnet Lighthouse, will welcome us back to the realities of life ashore in a pleasant and calming way!
$4,250 // 10 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Isbjorn's last passage of 2020. We'll depart Ireland and sail south through the Irish Sea and past the famous Fastnet Rock. If we have to, we'll duck into Glandore (Donald Street's home town), or Crookhaven to wait for a good weather window to cross Biscay and make landfall in Lisbon, where Isbjorn will stage for her return across the Atlantic. Departure port in Ireland is subject to change, but most likely will be Kinsale.
Here’s the letter that went out to all former and future Isbjorn crew when we made the announcement about the new Swan 59! Photos courtesy Rob Clarke, her former skipper.