$6,000 // 4 Crew // 18 Days. Join Isbjorn for the final leg of 2017 and explore into the Baltic!

600 Miles // 10 Days // 4 Crew // $4,000. 

Join us on the last leg of 2017 where we explore the Baltic, visit the Nautor's swan yard in Jakobstad, Finland, historic Mariehamn, Aland, home of the Last Cape Horners, and finish off in Sandhamn, in the outer Stockholm archipelago and the summer base of KSSS, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club. Crew can return to Stockholm easily via ferry from Sandhamn. Isbjorn will spend the winter in storage in central Stockholm, so this is our final trip of 2017! 

$4,000 // 4 Crew // 10-14 days. This trip is slightly different than our standard offshore passages. It's a delivery trip in September, a notoriously fickle month for weather in the Baltic. The main mission here is to get the boat to the island of Orust to the Vindo Marin boatyard where we'll haul her out, de-rig her, and put her in her winter storage shed where she'll get an extensive refit prior to our Arctic passages in 2018.

$5,000 // 10 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Join Isbjorn on the first leg of our voyage towards the Arctic and explore Sweden's 'best coast,' cross the north sea, and discover the remote, Viking-explored out-islands of Orkney, in Scotland.

$6,000 // 18 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Join Isbjorn in Scotland for our passage north through the Arctic Circle at 66º North and on to the incredible Lofoten Islands & Tromso, Norway, where the sun never sets! Photo by James Austrums.

$6,000 // 14 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. This is the big one, off the deep end to the literal end of the earth, the farthest north you can sail before the pack ice. Isbjorn will earn her name on this way, as we go in search of polar bears and follow in the footsteps of the Arctic explorers in the farthest reaches of Norway. Photo courtesy Magnus Ormestad.

$6,000 // 21 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Sail with Isbjorn as close as we'll get to Greenland this year as we make the BIG offshore passage, entirely in Arctic waters, from Svalbard south to Iceland (it's not often you'll get to say you sailed 'south' to Iceland!). Photo by Magnus Ormestad.

$6,000 // 16 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Join Isbjorn just below the Arctic Circle in Iceland for the first of our voyages back south and to warmer climes. We'll swing by the Faroe Islands on the way if we have time and good weather, then perhaps pop into Scotland for some of the world's best whisky before finishing in the Irish city of Dublin for a proper pint of Guinness! Photo of the Viking ship 'Draken' approaching Iceland on her 2016 trans-Atlantic passage!

$6,000 // 14 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Isbjorn's last passage of 2018. We'll depart Dublin 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.

$4,000 // 4 Crew Spaces // 10 Days. Once 'off the deep end', so to speak, it's 800 miles or so on the rhumb line to the city of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. Soft winds blow off the Sahara from Africa, and on our last passage along this route in 2012, we had 5 days of easy, dry sailing. 

$8,000 // 4 Crew Spaces // 24 Days. Join Isbjorn off the coast of Africa for a classic, downwind Trade Wind passage to the Caribbean! This is what you dream about - 'sail south until the butter melts and turn right!' When Mia and my Dad completed this same passage aboard the Saga 43 Kinship in 2013, it was a 20-day passage with 20 knots of wind off the starboard stern quarter the entire time!

$4,300 // 10 days // 7 Crew Spaces. Join Andy Schell & Paul Exner, with Mia Karlsson and Dan Shea along as mates, on a high-level ocean racing program in the heart of the Caribbean. 

$6,000 // 14 Days // WAITLIST. Join Andy & Mia for the 1,100 mile passage from Puerto Rico to Key West, with a stop in Havana on the way! A classic downwind, trade wind passage through the Old Bahama Channel.

$4,500.00 // 11 Days // 3 Crew Spaces. Sail Isbjorn north to Bermuda! Join the boat 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! Photo by Jen Lawinski, from my NYC-Bermuda passage on the Hallberg-Rassy 43 'Blue Heron' in 2015 as we sailed toward Town Cut under spinnaker!

$4,200 // 4 Crew Spaces // 10 Days. 

Join Isbjorn in historic St Georges, Bermuda, for the 750-mile jaunt back to her home waters on the Chesapeake. It'll be the first time Isbjorn has sailed back to Annapolis since 2016, and should make for an exciting reunion.

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 // 4 Crew Spaces // 8 Days. Because we love the cool weather and incredible scenery of the Canadian Maritimes, Isbjorn is 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 Isbjörn, our classic S&S Swan 48. 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 // 4 Crew Spaces // 9 Days. 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 // 4 Crew Spaces. Isbjorn will be returning to Annapolis for a long layupafter our voyage north to Newfoundland. This will be the first leg of that return voyage, and it's an exciting one! 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 // 4 Crew Spaces // 8 Days. Join Isbjorn in historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for the final leg home following our voyage north to Newfoundland. An 850-mile, nonstop ocean passage.

$6,500 // 18 Days // 4 Crew Spaces. Isbjorn is heading south again! 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). Paul Exner will be skippering this passage.