Sailing adventures tailored-made for you
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Sail with a world record-breaking skipper, a Golden Globe entrant or a multi-time circumnavigator - our Skippers have over 1.5 Million Ocean miles between them
Skipper (S. Africa)
+550,000 miles sailed
David Immelman, known to everyone as "Wavy", is co-founder and chief Skipper at Wavysail – He was born and raised around Cape Town and has been sailing since the age of 5.
Since then, he has amassed over 500,000 miles of ocean sailing, including over 40 Atlantic crossings.
He is a highly respected RYA instructor with many years of teaching.
A professional racing skipper, including Skipper of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race ‘19/’20 edition as well as winning the Governors cup on “Black Cat”
Skipper (UK)
+500,000 miles sailed
A hugely experienced Skipper and RYA Yachtmaster Examiner who has sailed almost every ocean of the world, leading expeditions to some of the remotest places including the Galapagos, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Tasmania. Jim is experienced, not only on, but also under water, as a Scuba Diving Instructor delivering expeditions to the Great Barrier Reef, Oceania and Asia.
Jim has a long history of successful race campaigns including skipper for the 09-10 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, competed in five Sydney to Hobart races, two Fastnet races, Round Britain and Ireland Race and many other offshore race events.
Skipper (UK)
150,000+ Sailed
Guy already had long and proven sailing experience before embarking on the Golden Globe Race 2022, having crossed the Atlantic several times, skippered "Dare to Lead" in the 19/20 edition of the Clipper Round the world yacht race and numerous sailing adventures, far more than we can recount here.
He is also a wonderfully calm and patient person who is a joy to sail with.
Role
We take our crews to some of the most fragile and least visited eco-systems in the world and we believe passionately that it is our duty to lead the way in reducing the environmental impact of sailing. Sadly, sailing is not very environmentally friendly - a 10-day trip might emit over a ton of CO2, and sailing yachts are frequently built out of polluting, non-recyclable materials such as Fibre Glass.
To make change, we developed a practical system so we can properly measure our Co2 footprint, based on four elements:-
Fossil Fuel consumption such as gas and Diesel
Food consumed on board
Marina services such as being plugged into shore power
Accommodation if it is part of the trip itself
We worked with a globally recognized expert in sustainable impact measurement to do this and were the first sailing operator in the world to publish the Co2 footprint of all our trips on our website. We are now encouraging other sailing operators to adopt an approach to bring greater transparency to the environmental impact of sailing so that we can reduce it.
However, this is not enough. We are also in the process of building the world's lowest environmental impact adventure sailing yacht through our sister company “Expedition Zero”. This yacht design will reduce the ecological impact of expedition sailing by 90%, using brand-new materials and the latest technology. Our first yacht will be in the water in 2025 and you can be part of our exciting journey by joining the “Expedition Club”
