Malaka
4.9 average across 2,300+ trips Every skipper licence verified

Sailing holidays
worth remembering.

Curated week-long routes through the Mediterranean, hosted by independent professional skippers. Take the whole yacht with your friends, or just one berth and meet the crew on board.

640 experiences 1,180 departures this season 310 verified skippers Already have a yacht? Find a skipper

Two ways to sail

One platform, two very different starting points.

01 — The main way

Find a sailing holiday

Pick a destination and an itinerary, choose a departure week, then book the entire yacht for your own group — or take a cabin, or a single berth, and join a crew.

Whole yacht Cabin Individual berth Skipper included

02 — If you already have a boat

Find a skipper

Chartered a yacht somewhere else? Tell us the boat, the base and the dates, and get availability from verified professional skippers for your sailing area.

Bavaria Cruiser 46 Lefkada 10–17 Aug

Featured experiences

Routes people come back for.

Every experience is designed and hosted by the skipper who sails it — with real departure weeks, real yachts and honest pricing.

Aerial view of a turquoise channel between two wooded islets on the Dalmatian coast, with a small stone village along the shore. 4 departures left 4.9 (128) Vis, Croatia

Croatia Islands Escape

Split → Hvar → Vis → Brač → Split

7 days Bavaria Cruiser 46 8 guests
6–13 Jun 13–20 Jun 20–27 Jun · 2 berths
Hosted by Marko K. · Verified skipper
€850 / person or €6,400
whole yacht
A white-cliffed Ionian bay with a sandy beach and a small boat crossing deep blue water. Solo-friendly 4.8 (96) Meganisi, Greece

Ionian Islands Adventure

Lefkada → Meganisi → Kefalonia → Ithaca

7 days Dufour 430 6 guests
4–11 Jul 11–18 Jul · 1 cabin 1–8 Aug
Hosted by Elena P. · Verified skipper
€790 / person or €4,600
whole yacht
A crewed sailing yacht heeling under full sail off the Cyclades coast. New route 4.9 (41) Milos, Greece

Cyclades Sailing Week

Athens → Kythnos → Serifos → Sifnos → Milos

7 days Sun Odyssey 449 8 guests
23–30 May 12–19 Sep 19–26 Sep
Hosted by Nikos V. · Verified skipper
€920 / person or €6,900
whole yacht

Why this is different

More than a boat.
A complete sailing experience.

A charter gives you keys and a marina. An experience gives you a route, a host and a week that is already thought through.

Curated itineraries

The skipper designs the route — where to swim, which bay to reach before the afternoon wind, which town is worth the walk.

Verified skippers

Identity, licences and sea time are checked by us before a skipper can publish a single departure.

Clear trip details

Before you pay you can see exactly what the week includes — and what it does not.

  • Route
  • Yacht
  • Crew size
  • Included
  • Extra costs
  • Payment plan

Everything in one place

After booking, your crew gets one shared page for the route, the paperwork, the payments and the plan — instead of nine WhatsApp threads.

Inside an experience

Seven days, planned
day by day.

This is what a skipper publishes before a single seat is sold — the anchorages, the crossings, the evenings ashore.

1 2 3 4 5 6 SPLIT HVAR VIS KOMIŽA BRAČ MILNA

Croatia Islands Escape

7 days 62 nm Departs 6 June

Routes adapt to wind and sea state — the skipper decides on the day.

Meet the skipper

Your skipper is more than
the person at the helm.

Skipper Marko Kovačević at the wheel of a sailing yacht, open sea and islands behind him. Skipper portrait
Sea miles 34,000+ since 2009

Marko Kovačević

Verified skipper 4.9 · 128 trips

“I grew up in Split and I still find a new cove every summer. My job on board is to make the week feel effortless — you sail as much or as little as you like.”

Licences
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore · STCW · VHF SRC
Experience
16 seasons · 34,000+ nm
Languages
Croatian, English, Italian
Sailing areas
Dalmatia, Kornati, Montenegro

How booking works

Four steps, no phone calls.

01

Discover

Browse experiences by destination, length and sailing style. Read the full itinerary before you commit to anything.

02

Pick your departure

Choose the week that works. Each departure shows its own yacht, skipper, price and remaining availability.

03

Book

Reserve the whole yacht, a cabin, or a single berth. Pay a deposit now and the balance closer to departure.

04

Get ready

Invite your crew, add passports and licences, split the payment and message the skipper — all in one place.

Whole yacht or a single berth

Bring your crew, or become part of one.

Your own crew

Book the whole yacht and the week is yours — you decide who comes, how the cabins are shared and how much you actually sail.

  • Perfect for friends, families and private groups
  • Split the cost between the crew inside the platform
  • Ask the skipper to adapt the route to your group

From €4,600 per week, whole yacht, skipper included

Join a crew

Take a cabin or a single berth on a departure that is already running. You will know the crew size and the skipper before you pay.

  • Perfect for solo travellers and couples
  • No sailing experience needed — the skipper hosts
  • Cabin bookings keep the door closed to strangers

From €790 per person, per week

Skipper marketplace

Already have the yacht?
Find the skipper.

If your boat is booked somewhere else — or it is your own — post the trip and verified skippers available in that area will come back to you with their availability.

  1. 1 Tell us the base, the dates and the yacht.
  2. 2 Describe the trip: crew, sailing level, what you want from the week.
  3. 3 Compare available skippers, licences and reviews.
  4. 4 Confirm and pay securely through Malaka.

Post a skipper request

Free, takes about a minute. No account needed to start.

17 verified skippers are free in the Ionian that week.

Your holiday, organized

Everything your crew needs,
in one place.

The week before departure is usually a mess of PDFs, bank transfers and group chats. Here it is one page that everyone on board can see.

  • Route, yacht and meeting point, with the marina pin
  • Crew list, cabin assignment and passport details
  • Who has paid, what is left and when it is due
  • Messages with the skipper, plus packing and travel notes
See how a trip page works

Trust & safety

Quiet things that matter
before you board.

Verified identities

Every skipper passes ID verification before publishing an experience.

Licence checks

Certificates and sea time are reviewed by our team, and re-checked every season.

Secure payments

Card payments are processed by our payment partner. Funds are released to the skipper after departure.

Clear cancellation

Each departure states its own cancellation window in plain language, before you pay.

Documented trips

Route, yacht, insurance and inclusions are recorded on the booking — not agreed by chat.

Support that answers

Real people, seven days a week, in the season — before, during and after the trip.

From the crew

2,300 trips, and counting.

“I booked one berth on my own and worried about it for a month. By Tuesday we were cooking dinner together at anchor.”
Sofia R.Ionian Islands Adventure · solo, one berth
“Eight of us, four couples, zero sailing experience. Marko read the forecast every morning and we never once felt out of our depth.”
Tudor L.Croatia Islands Escape · whole yacht
“We had the boat already and just needed a skipper. Posted on Sunday, had four replies by Monday, sailed with one of them in August.”
Katrin H.Skipper request · Lefkada

Ready when you are

Your next week at sea starts here.

Pick a coast, pick a week. The skipper takes care of the rest.