The Bluewater Private is the most complete expression of the Naora programme available. Up to forty-five days of exclusive use of the Eighty2, with the full Naora crew aboard, in the region of the circumnavigation the member chooses, for the group the member assembles. The people aboard are the people the member brought.
The programme is designed in collaboration with the Naora team around the group’s specific configuration, purpose, and preferences. The rhythm of the day, the anchorage selection, the balance between the offshore passage and the land visits and the diving programme, all of it is agreed between the member and the crew rather than determined by the rotating twelve-person dynamic of the shared membership legs.
Everything that happens aboard happens within the rhythm of the expedition, the Eighty2 is on the circumnavigation and the Bluewater Private vessel moves within the route the circumnavigation has reached. What changes is the complete exclusivity of the experience: six private cabins available for the member’s group alone, the full crew at the service of the private party, and the offshore world that the circumnavigation reaches in forms no charter fleet services in the same way.
The Full Naora Crew
The Bluewater Private member does not charter a vessel with a generic crew. They charter the Eighty2 with the specific Naora crew that makes the offshore experience what it is. Sven as captain with twenty-five years of offshore experience, the route planned across two decades, the specific judgment that the offshore passage requires at every decision point.
Ludo as first mate, the person who has earned the offshore trust that the long passage demands and whose preparation before every departure is the reason the passage runs as smoothly as it does. The diving and water sports programme.
Richard in the galley, the chef who spent years in Asia and who combines the French and Italian culinary tradition with the Asian kitchen in the way that twelve people go quiet around.
The crew does not change for the Bluewater Private. The crew is the Naora crew. The quality standard is the Naora quality standard. The difference from the shared membership legs is that the crew’s full attention is on the private group for the duration, without the shared dynamic of the twelve-person rotation shaping the programme.
Families With Children
The Bluewater Private is the format that makes the offshore sailing voyage accessible to the family — and the only format through which children come aboard the Eighty2. The shared membership legs are designed for the adult offshore experience and the twelve-person dynamic they produce.
The Bluewater Private configures the boat entirely for the family: the diving and snorkelling programme adapted for the ages and abilities of the children, the daily schedule built around the family’s natural rhythm, the meals and the anchorage selection and the land visit programme designed around what the children and the parents both want from the offshore chapter.
The family that charters the Eighty2 for a week in the Aegean or a month in the Pacific has the offshore sailing life as the context for the family experience, the morning in the clear atoll water, the first whale shark, the evening at anchor in the bay that the road does not reach in the private form that the family deserves.
Corporate Retreats and Leadership Programmes
The Bluewater Private is the offshore corporate offsite in the form that the corporate offsite has been trying to produce for decades and that the conventional offsite venue (however excellent) cannot replicate. The offshore environment removes the positional hierarchy, the domestic routine, and the performance management of the professional context and replaces them with the shared challenge and the genuine conversation that the boat and the ocean and the evening at anchor produce in twelve people who have been through the offshore passage together.
The corporate Bluewater Private programme is designed in collaboration with the Naora team: the balance between the offshore sailing activities — the passage, the diving, the land visits — and the structured programme elements the organisation wants to incorporate. Executive coaching at sea with coaches who join the leg for the duration.
Psychological wellbeing programmes with licensed organisational psychologists who understand the offshore context as the specific environment that produces the quality of the honest conversation that the boardroom consistently prevents. Leadership development curriculum delivered across the leg, combining the offshore experiences with the facilitated sessions that the programme framework defines.
Or the offshore experience alone, without additional facilitation, as the specific context that the conventional offsite has been trying to produce without the offshore environment that makes it possible.
Honeymoons and Milestone Celebrations
The Bluewater Private honeymoon is the beginning of a marriage in the form that the resort cannot provide: the private boat, the private crew, the private anchorage in the bay that no resort occupies and no charter fleet routinely visits. The couple who spends their honeymoon on the Eighty2 in the Pacific or the Maldives or the Caribbean has the offshore sailing life, the challenging and the beautiful and the extraordinary present simultaneously, as the foundation of the first days of the marriage.
The shared difficult night. The first whale shark. The Long Table for two in the anchorage at sunset. The specific quality of the shared offshore experience as the beginning rather than the backdrop. For the anniversary, the milestone birthday, the sabbatical celebration: the Bluewater Private provides the private offshore chapter in the form the occasion deserves.
Brand Partnerships and Content Creation
The additional possibilities of the Bluewater Private reflect the breadth of the contexts the format serves. Brand partnerships on board, for the brand whose identity aligns with the offshore sailing life and who wants the Eighty2 and the Naora voyage as the context for the content creation or the client experience the brand is building. The offshore environment in its most remote and extraordinary form, available as the setting for the creative work that requires it.
Private business or hosting formats, the organisation that wants the offshore vessel as the venue for the client relationship that the boardroom and the restaurant cannot build in the same quality. The investment bank that hosts the client dinner at anchor in the Aegean. The technology company that brings the leadership team to the Pacific for the planning retreat that the San Francisco offsite was never going to produce.
How to Begin
The Bluewater Private enquiry begins with a direct conversation with the Naora team. The format, the duration, the region, the group configuration, the programme elements, all designed in the collaboration that follows the first conversation.
There is no standard package. There is the offshore sailing voyage in the private form, built around the specific group and the specific purpose and the specific region of the circumnavigation. The Bluewater Private is not the premium version of the shared membership. It is a different format entirely, the offshore sailing life configured for the group whose experience of it should be entirely their own.
