A morning in the water with a specialist at your side. Back aboard, the equipment is taken from you, lunch is on the table and the afternoon is yours. That is an Odyssea Theme Charter: the expert you would cross the world to learn from, and the privacy and service of your own crewed yacht — in the same week, on the same water.
Your specialist, your yacht
On a Theme Charter the expert travels with you. Not a lesson booked on arrival and shared with strangers, but a qualified specialist chosen for your group, who reads the conditions each morning and builds every session around your level — whether you are standing up for the first time or chasing a personal best.
The yacht’s crew, meanwhile, do what they do best: the boat, the food, the service, the safety and the hundred details you never have to think about. Tomorrow’s anchorage is chosen for tomorrow’s wind or swell. Nobody else’s itinerary decides your day.
Who you could be sailing with
Surf
Jex, a professional surfer for more than ten years, guides our Caribbean surf safaris through the breaks of St Martin and Guadeloupe. Further afield, our Indonesia and Maldives safaris sail with surf instructors as part of the crew.
Freediving
John Lopez of Karukera Free-Dive, a BPJEPS-certified instructor, teaches freediving from the yacht in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Our freediving and spearfishing charters train with AIDA-certified instructors in remote drop zones, and Ocean Oriented™ with Dr Lindsay Bira blends freediving, neuroscience and coaching over four days at sea.
Kitesurf & wing foil
Tailor-made kitesurf and wing foil charters sail to the trade-wind lagoons and reefs of St Vincent & the Grenadines, Zanzibar and beyond — with the yacht anchored where the wind is, rather than where the beach bar is.
Wellbeing
Sea retreats with Jens Dullies, head of the German Fasting Academy, or with Dr Lindsay Bira, Harvard-trained psychologist and PADI Freedive Instructor, in the Exumas. Yoga, breathwork and sound therapy can be added to any charter, with a practitioner chosen for your group.
Deep-sea fishing
We arrange the sport-fishing operator for the day — wahoo, marlin, mahi-mahi — while your yacht or villa stays the base for everything else.
Why I built it this way
I surf, wake-board and freedive, and I have tried kitesurfing, windsurfing and wing foiling. Every time, I wanted the same two things: someone excellent to learn from, and somewhere beautiful to come back to.
Not everyone wants a surf boat with a bunk among fifteen or twenty other surfers and someone else’s itinerary. Not everyone wants a bareboat, where a day on the foil ends with cooking dinner. You shouldn’t have to choose between adventure and luxury — so we stopped asking our guests to.
Planning, around you
Tell us what you want to come home having done, who is coming and when. Your charter broker matches the specialist, the yacht, the destination and the season, confirms each of them, and handles everything in between — so that when you step aboard, the only decision left is how hard you want to push today.
You can have the adrenaline rush and the champagne. The physical challenge and the afternoon nap. The sense of achievement and the sunset cocktail.
Tell us what you want to try
The sport or practice, your level, who is coming and when. We will match the specialist, the yacht and the water.
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