Sail without a boat in the Côte d'Azur

You have your sailing licence, or you're getting it, and no boat. Chartering is pricey and buying one is a different conversation.

The Seafolk is a club of owners who swap boats for a few days. It isn't a charter and no money passes from one to the other. This page says plainly what you can do in it today if you don't have a boat.

What there is in the Côte d'Azur

In the Port-Cros National Park, in the Bagaud passage, anchoring is banned all year. Since 2020 there are 68 mooring buoys, and you can moor from 15 April to 15 October [1].

What you can do today without a boat

• Sign up and claim your founding place.
• Invite an owner you know: your invitation link is in your dashboard. When they list their boat, one more boat joins the network.

What you can't do yet without a boat

Request a place aboard another member's boat. To request a swap you need your own boat listed, with availability dates: that is a condition of the club today, not a formality. With yours listed you will be able to request a place on someone else's: today, to stay aboard in port or to sail with a professional skipper.

How swaps work

• Knots are the club's internal credits. They can't be bought or sold: you earn them by lending your boat and spend them sailing someone else's.
• Open today: staying aboard in port, without sailing, or sailing with a professional skipper. Bareboat, sailing by yourself, is closed for now.

Sources

[1] Parc national de Port-Cros, ZMEL de Bagaud: https://www.portcros-parcnational.fr/fr/des-decouvertes/s…

Where the club really stands

• 28 members and 3 boats. It's new: join now and you're among the first.
• Founding place free until 31 Dec 2026: a card is registered and nothing is charged before then; from 1 Jan 2027, €90 a year for life. Founding places are capped at 1,000 boats.
• Today the club is for people who already own a boat: with none listed you can't request swaps.

There are still few boats: it can't be promised that one will be free on your coast tomorrow. The more owners join early, the sooner there will be something to choose from.

Claim my founding place

Br, Ignacio López, founder — The Seafolk