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.
Wavy is a highly respected, and experienced RYA instructor with many years of teaching.
A professional racing skipper, including as 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. Jim has led expeditions to some of the remotest places in the world, including the Galapagos, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Tasmania. He's vast experience, is 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. He served as skipper for the 09-10 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, and has 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
Before taking on the 2022 Golden Globe Race, Guy had already built an extensive and proven sailing career.
He had crossed the Atlantic multiple times, skippered Dare to Lead in the 2019–20 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, and undertaken countless sailing adventures—far too many to list 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 drive change, we developed a practical system to 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 recognised expert in sustainable impact measurement to accomplish this, and became 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 follow our lead and to adopt an approach that brings greater transparency to the environmental impact of sailing so that we can all work to reduce it.
However, we didn't feel that this was 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”.
