How much experience is required? Who sails with Offshore Adventure Sailing?
Though most OAS clients are inland or coastal sailors, no sailing experience is required. The principal requirement is a taste for adventure and a positive attitude.
What boat are we sailing?
We sail La Peregrina, our Cabo Rico 34. She was designed by Bill Crealock and built in Costa Rica. She’s a true bluewater sailboat, very seaworthy and well outfitted. Under a previous owner, she sailed around the world in 1997 - 2002. She is a cutter-rigged sloop with a modified full keel and about 18,000 pounds displacement. She has a 47-hp Yanmar diesel engine, a wind generator, solar panel, auto pilot, radar, 4-person life raft, wind vane steering, large whisker pole, SSB radio, VHF radios, AIS, EPIRB, several GPSs, chartplotter, satellite tracker, 9 ft. hard-bottom inflatable dinghy with 15 hp outboard motor, jacklines, harnesses, tethers, PFDs, etc.
What are the sleeping accommodations?
There are four berths: the port and starboard settees in the main cabin, the v-berth in the bow, and the quarter berth aft. Both the v-berth and the quarter berth can sleep two people if they really like each other a lot.
How many people are aboard?
We never sail with more than four people, counting Captain Joe. We sometimes sail with fewer.
Where do we sail?
In recent years, we’ve been sailing mostly in the western Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the US East Coast. In 2023 and early 2024, we sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean and back. In the 9 years that we’ve owned her, we’ve sailed La Peregrina 37,000 nautical miles. Who knows where we'll go next? See our "Expeditions" page. We also offer customized expeditions. If you don't see exactly what you're looking for, please contact us.
What is included in the costs quoted?
Costs cover all expenses while on the boat, including food, drink, and dockage. You’ll be responsible for your own expenses if/when we go ashore. You will need to provide for your transportation to our departure point and from our point of arrival.
Who is our Captain?
Joe Hagan is a USCG-licensed Captain with nearly 40 years of sailing experience. A proud member of Nashville's Harbor Island Yacht Club, he has made multiple voyages to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Central America, in addition to the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. In 2023 and 2024, he sailed La Peregrina across the Atlantic from Charleston, SC to the Portuguese island of Madeira, Spain’s Canary Islands, the Cabo Verde Islands, and back across the Atlantic to Trinidad & Tobago. In 2016 and 2017, he and his wife Maribeth sailed La Peregrina from New Orleans to the Bahamas and the Northwest Caribbean, covering 5100 nautical miles and visiting the Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico. To read a blog of that trip, click below.
