Find your people.
Live the ocean life.

250+ members from 40+ nationalities. Liveaboards, adventure travellers, sailors, surfers, freedivers, eco-project builders, vanlifers, and overlanders. Ages 20s to 80s. A strong cohort of solo travelers, including many women on their own journeys. Some brand new to the life, others have been nomads for decades. What connects us: the drive for ocean adventure, conscious living, and positive impact.

A lot. The network accelerates what you’re already doing: finding the right crew, project visibility, connections in the next port, and a trusted circle who understands the lifestyle. No small talk. No explaining yourself.

For boat owners, trust is the whole game. 75+ vessel members use the network to find crew who share their standards, get local contacts and organic provisioning spots in the next port, and tap into a community that respects boats and the ocean. Post a crew call, pin your vessel, get hands-on help with refits, passages and route intel, from people you actually know.

Yes. Many members joined from zero. A full member card and our crew guides give you a real footing when you reach out to captains. If you want structured guidance alongside the community, start with Zero to Ocean Nomad: the community is your ongoing network, the lessons are the step-by-step path from dreaming to crew-ready.

The Zero to Ocean Nomad sailboat travel course teaches you how to travel the world by sailboat as crew, through structured video modules, checklists, and guides. The Community is your ongoing network for support, connection, adventure opportunities, and impact. They complement each other, but work independently too.

Sailing is our origin and still our heartbeat. We’re naturally expanding to vanlifers, hikers, surfers and off-grid explorers because the values are shared, and many of us move between different ways of living with nature over time.

Member pricing on every Ocean Nomads trip. 75 GBP off RYA sailing courses (Skippersonline). 25% off TrustedHousesitters. 20% off Stream2Sea reef-safe sunscreen. Plus deals on compost toilets, water filters, eco wetsuits, 75 euros off Rewild wilderness trips, plant-based nomad nutrition, and 50% off the Ocean Nomad book. All from ocean-aligned brands we actually use. The RYA course discount alone covers more than a year’s membership.

Most people piece this together over years: a sailing course or intro trip at €500+, crewing platform subscriptions, a coaching session, months of scrolling. A year of finding your people to sail, roam and build with costs about €6 a month, and the RYA course discount alone (75 GBP off via Skippersonline) covers more than a year. You still have to take the steps. But you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Most open communities are noise: ads, algorithms, strangers, short-term exchanges. Ocean Nomads stays intentionally small (around 250 members), members contribute, and relationships build over years. That changes how a community feels.

Many members join solo, many of them women. You get to know people online and at meetups first, you can find another woman for the same boat, and you can ask members who’ve sailed with a skipper before you say yes. We can’t promise who anyone is, so we don’t pretend to: you talk to real people with full profiles, and there’s a code of conduct with a way to report problems.