Bora Bora by Sail

A single overwater villa gives you rootedness and every comfort within reach. A crewed sail trades that for movement, waking to a new anchorage and reaching islands day boats never touch. For travellers who tire of one view, the sail is the more generous choice.

Yes. The journey is built around a crewed sail from Bora Bora to Taha'a, dropping anchor where the lagoon opens quietest. Between passages, a visit to a vanilla plantation on Taha'a can be arranged privately. Along the way, you can spend a morning at a deserted anchorage with the tender ready whenever you wish to swim, and end the day with sundowners on deck.

Pack soft-sided luggage. It stows far more easily aboard than hard cases, which matters when you are living on the boat for most of the journey. Our advisors also suggest keeping a night or two ashore at either end of the voyage, so you can bookend the sail in comfort before and after life on board.

You shape the route; the crew handles the timing. Tell your advisor your must-see anchorages early so the route is drawn around them. Each evening you choose the bay you will wake to, and the crew sets the course. On daily timing, trust the crew, as they read the wind better than any schedule. The itinerary bends to you, not the other way around.

Plan on 8-11 days for Bora Bora by Sail. Those days move at the pace of wind and water: you wake to whichever bay you chose the night before, then spend the day swimming, reading and going ashore while the crew handles everything between. The route can run from Bora Bora to Taha'a, with a private vanilla-plantation visit between passages. Our advisors suggest keeping a night or two ashore at either end to bookend the voyage in comfort.

As a private, tailored journey it starts from roughly US$17,000 per traveler (double occupancy) and scales with your dates, party and level of privacy — a starting point, never a fixed package price. Your advisor confirms the figure once the itinerary is tailored.

May through October is best. This is the dry, cooler season, when the lagoon turns its clearest turquoise and skies stay reliably open, ideal for swimming from the tender at a deserted anchorage and for sundowners on deck as the crew sets your evening course under a clear sky. Your advisor times the sail to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.

Bora Bora pairs a caldera peak, a ring of coral motus and a lagoon of rare luminosity, which few places on earth can match. Seen from a crewed sail, that landscape becomes a series of empty anchorages rather than a fixed view. You drop anchor where the lagoon opens quietest, wake to whichever bay you chose the night before, and keep days private and unhurried, with sunsets on your schedule.

Yes. On a crewed sail through Bora Bora, a morning at a deserted anchorage is part of what the journey can hold, with the tender ready whenever you wish to swim. Days aboard are spent swimming, reading and going ashore while the crew handles everything between. In the dry, cooler months of May through October, the lagoon turns its clearest turquoise, which makes those swims at their most beautiful.

Evenings on a crewed sail between Bora Bora and Taha'a center on sundowners on deck, as the crew sets your evening course under a clear sky. It is also when you choose the bay you will wake to the next morning. Life aboard moves at the pace of wind and water, so the crew reads the conditions and handles the timing while you simply enjoy the sunset.