For professional skippers
Publish your own sailing experiences, receive bookings and skipper-only requests, and manage the operational side of every trip in one place.
Independent skippers across Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey & Montenegro No listing fee to apply
Two revenue paths
Host the trips you design yourself, or take on skipper-only work where the customer already has the yacht. Most skippers use both across a season.
01 — Hosted experiences
You define the destination, the route, the itinerary, the style of sailing, the yacht and the dates. Customers book directly from your departures.
02 — Skipper-only requests
Customers who already have a yacht post the location, dates, crew and requirements. You review the brief and respond with an offer.
Hosted experiences. You are the organiser: the experience, the departures and the pricing are yours, and Malaka handles the booking layer and the trip tools around them.
How a hosted trip is built
Four objects, in the order you would actually use them. Build the route once, run it as many times as your season allows.
Experience. The permanent product. Route, itinerary, sailing style, what is included and how it can be booked — written once, reused every season.
Departure. A real week: exact dates, the assigned yacht, capacity and price. One experience can carry as many departures as your season allows.
Booking. A customer reserves the whole yacht, a cabin or a single berth. Availability updates everywhere the departure appears.
Trip Workspace. Crew, documents, route, meeting details, payments and messages, all attached to the week you are about to sail.
Experience → Departure → Booking → Trip Workspace
Experience builder
The builder asks for the things a guest actually wants to know before booking — and keeps them attached to the experience so you never rewrite them from messages.
Experience nameCroatia Islands Escape
DestinationCroatia · Dalmatia
Duration7 nights
Sailing styleRelaxed island hopping
RouteSplit → Hvar → Vis → Brač → Split
Daily itinerary
Day 1 · Split — check-in, briefing, evening sail to MilnaMarina
Day 2 · Milna → Hvar — long open sail, town eveningTown quay
Day 3 · Hvar → Vis via Pakleni islandsAnchorage
+ 4 more daysEditable
Photos
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An experience is not a listing you rebuild each spring. Update the itinerary, add new departures, and the trips you already ran keep their history.
Preview shows illustrative prototype content.
Departure builder
A departure is a real week on the water: exact dates, a specific yacht, real capacity and the price you set. Publish as many as your season allows.
€850 / berth €6,400 whole yacht Deposit 30% · balance 30 days before departure
€6,400 whole yachtPrivate group booking
Assign a yacht to publish this departure.
Illustrative values
Every departure inherits the route and itinerary from the experience, so what changes week to week is only what actually changes.
Skipper-only requests
Some customers already have the yacht — their own, or one they have chartered. They post the brief; you decide whether it fits your week.
Requests are filtered to your declared sailing areas, so you see the weeks that are realistically yours.
Posted 2 days ago · 4 offers so far
“Family group, two children aged 10 and 13. We have the yacht booked from Split and would like a skipper who is comfortable teaching a little along the way.”
Offer flow
You are not bidding against a clock. You read the request, decide whether it suits you, and send terms the customer can compare next to your profile.
01
Check the area, the yacht, the crew and the dates against your calendar.
02
State your terms clearly and add a short message about how you would run the week.
03
Your verified profile, reviews and offer sit side by side with the others.
04
The customer accepts and a booking is created with the agreed terms attached.
05
Crew details, documents, meeting point and messages move into one place.
Skipper workspace
Not a dashboard for its own sake. Each module exists because something in a real season needs a home — a boat, a crew list, a document that expires, a payout that has not landed yet.
Dashboard
The numbers that matter between trips — and the handful of things waiting on you.
Needs your attention
2 crew members have not finished their forms6—13 June
VHF / SRC certificate expires in 21 daysRenew
Departure 11—18 July has no yacht assignedDraft
Recent activity
All figures shown are illustrative prototype values.
Calendar
Availability should reflect the real calendar, not just what is published on the marketplace.
Calendar synchronisation with iCal and Google Calendar is being considered for a future release. It is not part of this prototype.
Boats
A yacht you sail every June should not be re-typed every June. Set it up once and assign it to whichever departure needs it.
Malaka does not assume you own a fleet. Most independent skippers work across boats that belong to other people.
Crew
You do not need everyone's passport in your inbox. You need to know who has finished their part — and who has not.
Crew readiness
82%6 of 8 fully complete · 2 outstanding items
Each guest gets their own secure form instead of sending you a photo of a passport at midnight.
Statuses move through Invited → Joined → Information missing → Documents missing → Ready, each with its own label and icon so status never depends on colour alone.
Crew manifest
When a marina, charter base or authority asks for a crew list, the information is already collected and structured — you are not rebuilding it from a chat thread the night before.
Preview only. Real personal data is never displayed on a public page, and manifest fields are shown to the skipper only where the trip requires them.
Document centre
Your credentials, the boat's paperwork and anything a specific trip requires — with a status on each, and a warning before something lapses.
The credentials that make your profile a professional profile.
Held against the boat, so they follow it to whichever departure uses it.
Whatever a specific trip requires from the people on board.
Every status carries a written label as well as an icon, so it never relies on colour alone.
Verification
Guests are trusting a stranger with their week and their family. Verification is how Malaka makes that a reasonable thing to do.
01
Basic identity and the outline of your profile.
02
Experience, sailing areas, yacht types and languages.
03
The credentials relevant to how and where you sail.
04
Malaka reviews the application. Approval is not automatic.
05
Your public profile can display its verification status.
Requirements depend on your profile and where you operate. At a high level, a review may look at:
Licence numbers, identity documents and insurance papers are never shown on your public profile. Guests see that verification took place — not the paperwork behind it.
Malaka does not publish its full verification criteria, and reviews are carried out case by case. Submitting documents does not guarantee approval.
Public profile
What a guest sees is the sailing you have actually done, the waters you know and what past crews said afterwards.
Split, Croatia · Central & South Dalmatia
Hosted experiences: Croatia Islands Escape · Kornati Slow Sail · South Dalmatia & Mljet
Guests are not comparing marketing copy. They compare seasons sailed, areas known, languages spoken and what the last eight crews wrote.
Example profile shown for illustration.
Messaging
Not another inbox. Every thread belongs to a booking, a request or a trip — so a question from March is still findable in July.
GuestWe land in Split at 15:40 on the Saturday — is that early enough for the briefing?
YouThat works well. Check-in from 17:00, briefing at 18:00, and we sleep in the marina the first night so nobody is rushed.
GuestPerfect. Do we need to bring our own snorkelling gear?
YouThere are masks on board in adult sizes. If the children want their own, bring them — otherwise you are fine.
Thread stays attached to the booking, and moves with it into the Trip Workspace.
Payments & earnings
The money side of a season is usually the part held together by memory. Here it is held by the booking it came from.
Illustrative interface — figures and terms are examples only
Payout history
Booking #4712 · 9—16 MayPaid out
Booking #4688 · 25 Apr — 2 MayPaid out
Booking #4655 · partial refund issuedAdjusted
Malaka does not publish a commission figure on this page. Fees and payout terms are shown to you in the product before you publish an experience or accept paid skipper work.
Payout flow
A simple sequence, so you always know which stage a trip's money is in.
Payments are handled by the platform and its payment provider. Exact terms, timings and any provider requirements are shown in your account before you start taking bookings.
The customer's payment is received by the platform and its payment provider — not directly by you.
The customer pays according to the terms shown at booking — typically a deposit, then a balance before departure.
You see the upcoming payout, its amount and the date it is expected to be released.
The payout moves into your history and stays available for your records.
Customers
Guests come back. When they do, you should not be starting from nothing — but you also do not need a sales pipeline.
Who they are and how to reach them, in the context of trips you actually ran together.
Which experiences they sailed, when, on what yacht and with how many people.
Past conversations, still attached to the booking they belonged to.
The practical things worth remembering — pace, preferences, what worked last time.
Lightweight relationship history. Malaka does not ask you to store customer data you have no operational reason to keep.
Reviews
Reviews arrive after the trip, from people who were actually on board — for hosted experiences and skipper-only bookings alike.
“He changed the route on day three because of the wind and it turned out to be the best day of the week. Everything was organised before we arrived.”
Guest · 6—13 June · Whole yacht
Your response
“Thank you — that maestral would not have been comfortable on the planned leg. Glad the detour worked out.”
Sample review shown for illustration.
Private & external work
A season is rarely all marketplace work. The trips you arranged yourself — repeat customers, an agency week, a delivery — deserve the same tools, and they need to be on the same calendar.
A guest booked one of your published departures through Malaka.
A request you answered with an offer, and the customer accepted.
Someone who came to you directly, as they have for years.
A week arranged through a charter company or agency.
Moving a yacht between bases at the start or end of a season.
Friends, family or a group you organise outside any platform.
All six can use Trip Workspace. Crew forms, documents, route, meeting details and messages work the same way whether the booking came through Malaka or not — and every one of them occupies a week on your calendar.
Trip Workspace
Booking is the transaction. Trip Workspace is the operational layer — the place the week is actually run from.
Dates6 — 13 June 2026
Guests8 · 4 cabins
BaseSplit, ACI Marina
Booking typeMarketplace · cabin & berth
Crew readiness82% · 2 items outstanding
Documents1 expiring soon
YachtBavaria Cruiser 46
Year · cabins2019 · 4 cabins
Berths8 guests + skipper
EquipmentBimini · Sprayhood · SUP · Snorkelling gear · Autopilot · Chart plotter
DocumentsRegistration & insurance on file · safety document verified
Planned routeSplit → Milna → Hvar → Vis → Komiža → Bol → Split
Day plan
Day 1 · Split → Milna14 NM
Day 2 · Milna → Hvar22 NM
Day 3 · Hvar → Vis18 NM
+ 4 more days · adjustable on board—
Illustrative values
Meeting pointACI Marina Split · pontoon C
Check-inSaturday from 17:00
BriefingSaturday 18:00, on board
Notes to crewSoft bags only — there is no storage for hard suitcases. Bring a light jacket for evening sails and non-marking deck shoes.
Before departure
Crew forms complete2 outstanding
Balance payment receivedDue 7 May
Provisioning list sentDone
Yacht handover bookedDone
Why this matters
None of this makes you a better sailor. It removes the parts of the job that happen at a laptop at eleven at night.
Trip data stays connected to the trip instead of living in five files and a chat thread.
Crew complete their own forms, and you see what is still outstanding at a glance.
Every trip leaves a record — who, when, on what boat, and what was agreed.
Marketplace weeks and private work sit on the same calendar, so availability is honest.
A route you have refined over ten seasons can be published again and again.
Guests get one organised trip hub instead of forwarded emails and screenshots.
Who this is for
Malaka is a professional marketplace. It is not a place to offer a weekend on a friend's boat.
Running trips throughout the season and looking to fill weeks with the right work.
Deep regional knowledge — the anchorages, the wind, the konoba worth the detour.
You have a route in your head that guests keep asking for. Publish it and sell it directly.
Skipper-only requests are another way to fill weeks between your own departures.
Groups that come back every year and deserve a trip layer better than a chat thread.
Malaka is a professional platform. Applications are reviewed, and not every application is approved.
Before you apply
Depending on your profile and operating area, Malaka may request some or all of the following. Not every item applies to every skipper.
Requirements differ by country, yacht and the kind of work you take on. Depending on your profile and operating area, Malaka may request additional documentation — and some items above may not apply to you at all.
Onboarding
The application saves as a draft. Most skippers finish it across two or three sittings, usually while waiting for a document to arrive.
Step 1
Name, contact details and your home base.
Step 2
Experience, sailing areas, yacht types and languages.
Step 3
Upload the documents relevant to your profile.
Step 4
Payment and payout details for paid work.
Step 5
See exactly what a guest would see before anything goes live.
Step 6
Send the application to Malaka for verification.
You can follow the application's status in your account. If something is missing, you will be told exactly what it is.
Every application is reviewed individually. Submitting documents does not guarantee approval, and if an application is not approved you will be told why where we are able to say so.
You can keep working on the parts of your profile that do not depend on review — draft an experience, add a boat, write your itinerary. Nothing is published until your profile is verified and you choose to publish it.
Fees
Platform fees and payout terms are shown clearly before you publish experiences or accept paid skipper work.
Conceptual breakdown — no rates shown
This page does not state a commission rate. Any figures shown in the interface previews above are illustrative placeholders for a prototype, not commercial terms.
Support
Decisions on the water are yours. Support exists for everything that happens on land.
Getting your application complete and your public profile right.
Structuring a route, setting departures and choosing booking modes.
Questions about a booking, a payment schedule or a payout.
Verification queries, expiring documents and trip operations.
Support hours and response times are published in the help centre. Malaka does not claim round-the-clock support.
From skippers
“I can keep the route and customer information in one place instead of rebuilding the same trip from messages every week.”
“The useful part is not only getting bookings. It is having departures, crew information and calendar in the same workflow.”
“Skipper-only requests give me another way to fill weeks when I am not hosting my own departures.”
Sample prototype testimonials, shown to illustrate the product.
Questions
Malaka is built for professional independent skippers — people who run trips as part of their working season, with the licences appropriate to where they sail. Applications are reviewed individually, and approval is not automatic.
Depending on your profile and operating area, Malaka may request identity details, a professional sailing licence, VHF / SRC where relevant, and insurance or further certificates where they apply. Requirements differ by country and by the kind of work you take on, so not every item applies to every skipper.
You create an account, add your professional details, upload the relevant documents and submit. Malaka then reviews the application and, if it is approved, your public profile can display its verification status. You can follow the status of the review in your account throughout.
Yes. You define the destination, route, itinerary, sailing style, yacht and pricing, then add departures with exact dates. One experience can carry as many departures as your season allows, and the experience itself is reusable across years.
If you want them to. Each departure can be set to whole yacht only, or opened up to cabin and single-berth booking. You can make that choice differently for different weeks.
Yes. Customers who already have a yacht post the area, dates, yacht, crew and requirements. Requests are filtered to your declared sailing areas, and you respond with an offer covering your fee, expenses, scope and availability.
Yes — this is deliberate. Private trips, external charters and your own direct customers can all be created in Malaka and use the same Trip Workspace, so your calendar reflects the whole season rather than only the part that was booked through the marketplace.
Yes. Boats can be owned, regularly chartered, assigned per departure, or external — the customer's own yacht on a skipper-only job. Specifications, cabins, equipment, photos and documents are stored once and reused wherever that boat is assigned.
One calendar carries published departures, booked trips, skipper jobs, private trips, external charters and personal blocks. Availability should reflect the real calendar, not just what is published on the marketplace. Calendar synchronisation with iCal or Google Calendar is being considered for the future and is not part of this prototype.
Each crew member is invited and completes their own personal information, travel details, emergency contact and any required forms or documents. You see readiness — Invited, Joined, Information missing, Documents missing, Ready — rather than every sensitive detail.
The customer pays through the platform and its payment provider according to the schedule shown at booking, typically a deposit and then a balance. Your earnings view shows the booking value, what has been paid, what is pending and when a payout is scheduled, and completed payouts stay in your history.
Platform fees and payout terms are shown clearly before you publish experiences or accept paid skipper work. There is no charge to apply or to hold a verified profile. Any figures shown in the interface previews on this page are illustrative prototype values, not commercial terms.
Yes. Your description, sailing areas, languages, yacht experience and photos are yours to update at any time. Changes that affect verified information may be re-checked before they appear publicly.
Yes. Reviews come from guests who completed a trip with you, and you can add a public response in your own words. The response appears alongside the review on your profile.
Documents carry a status, and you are warned before one lapses — you will see an "expiring soon" flag on your dashboard well in advance. If a required document expires, publishing and accepting new work may be limited until an up-to-date version is uploaded and reviewed.
Yes. You can block weeks, unpublish departures or pause your profile entirely — for a fortnight off, or for the winter. Existing confirmed bookings are unaffected.
Start here
Malaka gives you the marketplace and operational tools to turn them into a professional customer experience.
If you already have a yacht and need someone to sail it, post your trip and receive offers.