Everyone can sail - Tahiti Tourisme

All you have to do is relax and feel your senses come alive as you live aboard and go ashore, experiencing the best our uniquely preserved lands and sea can offer.

The dream of sailing in paradise can come true for everyone

With no experience at all, you can charter a yacht with a captain and crew who will look after you as if you were on board a floating hotel. All you have to do is relax and feel your senses come alive as you live aboard and go ashore, experiencing the best our uniquely preserved lands and sea can offer.

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Six reasons why sailing is for everyone

Sailing in the blue lagon of Bora Bora © Grégoire Le Bacon & LionAiles

1. Experience everything

Sailing is more than being on the yacht! Your captain is also your guide. Visit a pearl farm, vanilla plantation or luxury hotel, hike in the mountains, laze on a secluded beach or enjoy every water activity possible. It’s all available.

2. Personalized to you

Charter a whole yacht with captain and crew just for you and your friends or loved ones. Or book a comfortable cabin and enjoy the company of others. When you sail you can personalise everything you see and do.

Setting sail on a catamaran© Grégoire Le Bacon

Sailboat cruise in The Islands of Tahiti © Tahiti Tourisme

3. Perfect seclusion

When you sail you are able to experience your own private paradise when you visit secluded islands, bays and beaches that remain untouched by the busy tourism that affects some other destinations.

4. Easy conditions

Inside the Polynesian lagoons you will travel on an incomparably serene ocean protected from the rolling swell outside the reef. You can relax and enjoy the service on board as if you were in a hotel.

Ua Pou from offshore © Bertrand Duquenne

5. Preserving the environment

Sailing is the most environmentally friendly way to enjoy every side of The Islands of Tahiti. Our culture is to welcome travelers, everyone benefits when our diverse and pristine islands are preserved.

6. Connection to our culture

The ocean – or Moana – is deeply connected to Polynesian history and way of life. The beauty, diversity and human warmth that you will discover when you sail will be an experience to treasure for a lifetime.

Oui, ici, vous allez vivre des émotions à chaque instant.

Flowery welcome for a couple © Tahiti Tourisme

Experience to live

Sail away on a catamaran

There’s nothing quite like cruising from island to island on a sailboat or catamaran in French Polynesia. You can rent a boat to navigate yourself, or reserve an all-inclusive package with skipper and crew, so that you can take things easy and enjoy the scenery. A sailing cruise gives you the time to discover The Islands of Tahiti in all their beauty.

Live the experience

Discover our vacation offers, where you’ll discover French Polynesia through its people, its wild nature, its priceless art of living and its islands.

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