About us
We are a Danish registered non-profit organization with the purpose of providing training opportunities for anyone interested in learning traditional sailing skills and seamanship while cruising the world oceans and exploring remote places. By joining our community, you can join our adventure around the world!
A unique opportunity to learn to sail and navigate the world with friends!
Hear what our crew has to say about our program:
Sailing on neptun is an amazing adventure, teaching you new skills among a very interesting and diverse community. This has opened a lot of doors in my career as well as sparked a lot of new interests!
Sailing with Neptun was a great experience that I would not have liked to miss! I met a lot of fantastic people, learned a lot about sailing and not least about myself! Neptun undoubtedly gives you a lot of useful tools in your luggage, and includes you in a unique community that cannot be found in very many places. - Thank you!
In a sea full of glass fiber and expensive private yachts, you'll find the Neptun an oasis of pure enthusiasm and low budgets, that keeps going both in storms or fair weather. Get out of your comfortable sofa and be part of a dream that many would not dare to realize, and you'll find much camaraderie, good times, learning, and experiences for life.
I had a great time on Neptun 🌊 Ended up staying a bit longer than planned and it was worth it! Got back incredibly inspired and feeling myself 😊 I loved our crew and I'm longing to go back sometime. Ready to take on the world! 🌏
Our captain, mates, and engineer earn only a modest salary, far below commercial rates, bringing decades of professional experience from commercial shipping and tall ships.
Pick a leg
From Bali to Kiel, pick a single leg, half the year, or the whole circumnavigation.
May 2026 — Aug 2026 · Bali, Indonesia → Réunion, France
The opening chapter of Neptun's 482-day world voyage, a 4,078-nm trade-wind passage from the temples of Bali to the volcanic cliffs of Réunion.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 1: from Bali to Réunion across the Indian Ocean
Aug 2026 — Sept 2026 · Réunion, France → Zanzibar, Tanzania
Forty days across the western Indian Ocean, volcanic Réunion, lemur-haunted Nosy Be, the Mozambique Channel, and the spice-scented stone alleys of Zanzibar.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 2: from Réunion to Zanzibar via Madagascar
Sept 2026 — Nov 2026 · Zanzibar, Tanzania → Durban, South Africa
Sixty-three days coasting the African shore, spice islands, mangrove anchorages, Portuguese praças and the long trade-wind run down the Mozambique Channel to Durban.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 3: from Zanzibar to Durban down the Mozambique Channel
Nov 2026 — Dec 2026 · Durban, South Africa → Cape Town, South Africa
Thirty-eight days of serious seamanship, the Agulhas current, the Cape of Good Hope and the Southern Ocean at the tip of Africa, finishing quietly in Cape Town for Christmas.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 4: from Durban around the Cape of Good Hope
Jan 2027 — Mar 2027 · Saldanha Bay, South Africa → Fortaleza, Brazil
Forty-four days before the southeast trades, Napoleon's exile at St. Helena, the equator crossing, and landfall in tropical Brazil. The ocean chapter of the voyage.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 5: across the South Atlantic from Saldanha to Fortaleza
Mar 2027 — Apr 2027 · Fortaleza, Brazil → Trinidad
A thousand miles of downwind trade running, the Amazon's brown water under the hull, the Guianas smudged on the horizon, and Trinidad's steelpan waiting at the end.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 6: from Fortaleza to Trinidad along South America
Apr 2027 — May 2027 · Trinidad → Antigua
Four weeks of short trade-wind daysails through the Lesser Antilles, turquoise anchorages, rum shops on the sand, French-Creole Martinique and the tall-ship scene in Antigua.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 7: through the Windward Islands from Trinidad to Antigua
May 2027 — Jul 2027 · Antigua → Ponta Delgada, Azores
Fifty-six days on the classic spring tall-ship route home, Antigua, a long reach to Bermuda's pink sand, then three weeks of open ocean to the volcanic Azores.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 8: across the North Atlantic from Antigua to the Azores
Jul 2027 — Aug 2027 · Ponta Delgada, Azores → Kiel, Germany
The final 1,878 nm, from volcanic São Miguel to the Baltic, up the English Channel through the Dover TSS, past Helgoland's red cliffs and home to Kiel.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 9: homecoming from the Azores to KielRead our latest captains (b)log and follow our progress around the world!
By Meg Watt, Captain Neptun has recently arrived in Borneo, a much anticipated stop on our voyage, and this change of scenery is an opportunity for us to look back over the previous couple of months of our voyage. Our initial voyage trai…
read more about Bye Bye Philippine Islands, Onward to Borneo
By Connor Rae, crew After our time at sea, and our impromptu diesel run, the crew were all eager for some time with solid ground beneath our feet. To make it to Surigao City, we had to time the approach with a tidal channel. We rocketed…
read more about Island Time in the Southern Visayas
By Alex Sutherland, crew We began our journey in Palau, a UNESCO World Heritage site that feels less like a countryand more like a living postcard. It’s a place where WWII history sleeps beneath turquoise water,where coral walls drop int…
read more about The First Crossing