Discovery departs Bodrum in May 2027. Bodrum is in Turkey, on the Aegean coast, at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean. For the member in Singapore or Dubai or São Paulo or Sydney or Tokyo or Cape Town, Bodrum is not closer than it is for the member in London or Amsterdam. It is simply the starting point of the circumnavigation, the port where the journey begins because the Mediterranean is the first chapter of the route, not because Europe is the home of the programme.
The Naora circumnavigation boards members at the following points across the five-year voyage: Bodrum and the Mediterranean ports of the first chapter, Las Palmas in the Canary Islands for the Atlantic crossing, the Caribbean islands for the Western Atlantic chapter, Panama for the canal transit, Papeete for the Pacific chapter, Bali and Ambon and the Indonesian ports for the Coral Triangle chapter, Galle in Sri Lanka and the Maldivian atolls for the Indian Ocean chapter, Aqaba for the Red Sea chapter, and the Mediterranean ports for the return.
The member who joins the Naora programme joins a voyage that spends its five years across four oceans and forty countries, a voyage that passes through the home regions of members on every inhabited continent and that provides the boarding point in the region closest to where the member lives.
Where The Programme Is From
Naora’s two founders, Sven and Antony, are Belgian. This is a biographical fact and it is the least relevant fact about the Naora programme for the member in Singapore or Dubai or Sydney or São Paulo. The programme is not Belgian. It is not European. It is the five-year circumnavigation of the planet’s four oceans, designed around the route that twenty-five years of Sven’s offshore sailing experience identified as the finest available. Sven is the founder and captain, planning every weather window and sailing every leg himself; Antony is the co-founder. The voyage is open to members who find it from anywhere in the world where people with the curiosity and the capacity for the offshore sailing life happen to live.
The person in Singapore who finds naora.world is looking at the same programme as the person in London. The person in Dubai who considers the Red Sea chapter is looking at the leg that departs from the port closest to them.
The person in Sydney who is drawn to the Pacific chapter is looking at the region of the circumnavigation that is most geographically natural for them to join. The Naora programme does not require the member to be European. It requires the member to be the person who is ready for what the offshore sailing life provides. Wherever that person happens to live, the voyage comes to them at some point in the five years. The question is not where you are from.
The question is whether you are ready when the route arrives.
