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We are Yo and Joe, two old friends in their 40’s who have a shared dream of once travelling the world on a sailboat with our respective families (not on the same boat, not necessarily on the same programme).

We differ on a few things (sailing programme, the ideal type of boat, our sailing experience, etc), but the essential is there: sailing the world is what we eventually will do.

We launched this web/blog because we couldn’t find anywhere else the space of discussion we hope this initiative will prove to be. There is endless sailing stuff around the web: some are about racing (we love following them – Vendée Globe, America’s Cup or Volvo anyone?), many are about personal experiences of people actually sailing the world (their testimonies are our daily fix of inspiration) and numerous others dealing with navigators’ daily issues (« how do you fix this diesel issue? », « what’s the right anchor? », « help me find a boat to cross to the Bahamas! »), but none deal with our issue of preparing a distant sailing trip.

We’ve called the site Ob36 as in Objective 2036. Why? Because it sounds like a nice round year but as well because all the experiences we have come across start with the advice of setting a date to depart. Will we sail in the meantime? Sure. Will we own a boat before? Possibly (we currently don’t). Will plans change until then? A 1000 times.

Until Objective 2036 materializes, we look forward to many other things: short term cruises (including some passages), experiencing solo handling, building a solid programme and learning the many skills that are useful once away (from sewing to mechanics, from weather guru to first aid). We look as well forward to finding environmental friendly means to sail, and to making our journeys meaningful for the communities we will come across.

In any case, we hope not to be the only ones out there chasing the same distant goal and hope to build a small, robust and hopefully lasting community of dreamers.

We are launching this website around a blog and a few opening catchy questions to start a discussion. We are very open to broaden both the range of features (a forum? More participative questions? Vbloging boat shows?) and of contributors (guest contributors? Full time?). Just let us know if you have bright ideas or ways you want to contribute (content and/or design). Just one thing: we do this for fun: no commercials, no money, no advertisement (but yes to reviews!), no subscription.

Have fun 🙂

Yo and Joe, summer 2021 (contact@ob36.org)

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Your Memories

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There are some notable exceptions, but sailing around the world is typically not something you do on a whim.

Sailing is often described as an invading virus, a beast that you can tame but not get rid of.

Many start in their young years, a family dinghy or a summer camp.

Some fall into it through readings, be it long travel story, pirate tales, or adventurous books.

Some others get to it by watching, witnessing and following races, be it the Vendée Globe or (where it all started) the Golden Globe Race.

And then, we are in 202X, so are there countless social media accounts and groups of (almost) every possible sailing story.

Now, you, where are your sailing roots? Are you still a kid with a childhood dream, or a bored hopeful adult looking for something else?

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Your dream boat

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… to fulfill your dream

So, you have a dream and some idea of where you actually want to go, this is a great start but you actually need a boat to fulfil it!

This is an endless discussion but one where listening to others makes a lot of sense: enrich your views, confront your certainties, filter down your many ideas.

Go ahead, and share here what your boat should look be like. Not the detailed equipment, but the main elements, the ones that really define it:

  • New or old and if so, how old?
  • Wood, Steel, Aluminum, Polyester, Cement?
  • Length: from 30 to 100ft?
  • Draught: often overlooked in discussions, this is a key parameter: are you going shallow?
  • Three, two or single hull? And if single hull, with a keel? Two keels? Fix or movable? Or centreboard?
  • And then the rest: how many berth? how many masts?


Go on, share, debate and keep the discussion going.

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Your Journey

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Every journey starts with a plan

Call it voyage planning, figuring your journey or having a destination, the first question one needs to answer before setting sail is precisely this one: where will I go?

We are not talking about the day-to-day schedule of which marina to stop by, and not even the season you intend to travel to. This matters a lot, but it’s for later considerations.

So, what will it be for you? A “classic” Caribbean tour, a wild northwest passage tentative, or an adventurous Amazon upstream route?

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Your Sailing Dream

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Let’s start big !

What is the dream, or the vision that you have?

This is not the moment to be realistic, limited by budget, by age, by knowledge or by fear. Every journey starts with a dream. Reality will kick in soon enough to shape the dream into something that will eventually become a journey, and a great one.

Starting from a dream might actually open up possibilities you had never thought before. For example, if sailing is a means to scuba dive around the world but you have a condition, thinking big can push you into treating the condition. Or learning Spanish to travel South America. Or joining a club to find sailing mates…

So, tell us all about it:

  • Where do you see yourself sailing: sandy beaches, rough oceans, amid icebergs, or up the amazon?
  • Is it about the water, or is it about meeting people, cultures, habits, music?
  • Is it about flat horizons, or is sailing the means to visit inlands?
  • In your vision, are you alone, or a couple, a bunch of friends, a family?
  • Sailing with a purpose: do you want to discover the world for yourself, or educating your own kids? Is your journey about helping remote communities? Or may be it comes accompanied by an environmental ambition?

Share your dream and find inspiration from others

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