Close to our goal! Financing the Expedition

Here’s the info to join the Green Coco Expedition — an innovative, family friendly around-the-world voyage, with a global itinerary for 15 years! We have enough pledged to purchase our 60ft Expedition Catamaran, just offering 2.5 more boat shares to help cover our operating expenses for year 1.

Quick link to investor files here (Proposal, FAQs, Agreement)

Deadline: June 1, 2023 (extension to June 15 by request). Minimum is $4,000 and the Full Boat Share is $30,000. Details below.

Contact: greencoconutrun@gmail.com

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This is going to be a really unforgettable educational-adventure, open to all-ages: families with kids, couples, or groups of friends seeking adventure. Our trips include inspiring workshops on wellness & ocean sports; plus a built-in Ocean Camp for kids courtesy of an onboard teacher (starting with circumnavigation in 2027).

Visitors can join for 3-14 day trips. The itinerary is scheduled a year in advance, adapted for investor preferences. Reserve a private boat for your group with 3 cabins, or just book a cabin to share a trip with other guests. The costs include Cabin fees + Food fees. As an investor, you get free cabin days (just pay food) and lots of valuable investor perks.

How good is this deal? For Charter trips, our regular rates are $800/day double occupancy (see our charter prices), with cabin+food fees together. As an investor, you get trips for as little as $350/day; assuming a full boat share. You also get investor perks such as 10-50% discounts, free cabins on passages, big referral credits, and the possibility of cashing out boat shares if there are major Expedition issues.

Since we are a cooperative organization, we offer an even more affordable option: Co-op trips. The regular rate for our Co-op trips is $470/day double occupancy. For investors, this can be as low as $220/day; assuming a full boat share, and if you use your investor perk of 5 extra days for co-op trips (when schedule permits). See pages 5 and 7 of “Expedition Proposal”).

What’s the difference between Co-op and Charter trips? Co-op trips have full participation (everyone helps to cook, clean, and a little boat work) while Charter have some participation (just sous-chef rotation to help prep and clean up). We also offer Retreats for extra cost, with no obligations. Note, Co-op membership is required for Co-op trips, which requires coming aboard one Charter trip first (to ensure it’s a good fit for everyone). This step can be bypassed if you have a personal referral and/or you make an application based on financial need.

Green Coco offers a unique and authentic experience not found in other sailing charters. The essence of our trips is this: it’s like you’re coming aboard your friends’ boat, not aboard a floating hotel. We co-create true adventures as an ocean family. Green Coco is for those who love to learn, lend a hand, and get inspired!

See our BOAT TOUR below to get a sense of a typical catamaran’s layout, with private cabins in each hull. This is our existing 46ft boat, which we aim to keep, and continue offering trips in French Polynesia with a new captain & chef. It has up 4 double cabins, and 3 small single berths.

For the Expedition, we are purchasing a much larger 60 foot catamaran. This is a world-class ocean going vessel, with 5 cabins and 2 large single berths, plus spacious salon/cockpit areas. Investor funds are used to purchase Boat Shares in the Expedition, which will give them access to this new boat (and also our 46ft catamaran, assuming it is available). See more pics of the prospective new boat.

Here are photos of the 60 foot catamaran we are purchasing.

Your Boat Share investment gives you the best of “owning a world-cruising boat” — without all the liability, hassles, and costs. Help choose where the boat goes in the world, and when. You’ll join the boat, which is fully crewed by us. Come back over the years in different, exciting destinations. There are no surprise costs if the boat has issues, for example.

Investors get a certain number of free cabins — our lowest co-investment is $4,000 which gets you 20 cabin days. The full Boat Share is $30,000 for 200 cabin days. You’ll also get a ton of investor perks for the next 15 yrs:

10-50% discounts on regular rates
$100/day credit for referrals at full charter rate
free passage cabins
extra 5 free days for co-op members in port or convenient location (when schedule permits)

Investor using their cabin days only pay Food & Fuel fees, which are per day/person: $60 for Co-op, $100 for Charter, $175 for Retreat. Discounts available for families.

Read the Expedition Proposal below for more details, financial details in pages 4-7. Deadline June 1, extension until June 15 by request.

The sailing dinghy is like training wheels for guests to learn how to sail — one of the many included workshops we teach aboard. Other workshops include breathwork, freediving, homesteading at sea, star constellations, non-violent communication, RIE parenting, wing-foiling, and wake-surfing.

Below is our upcoming 5 year rough itinerary… starting with Delivery Voyage in ’24-’25. The Expedition lasts until 2039. We’ll be adapting it to Investor preferences with regular surveys.

Along the whole itinerary, there will be 3-14 day scheduled trips that visitors can join (investors or general public).

Our full circumnavigation with Ocean Camp occurs from 2027-2038, tentatively sketched on page 3 of the Expedition Proposal.

DRAFT ITINERARY – Oh the places we’ll go! We have 5 phases in our Expedition (subject to Investor preferences and contingencies; please see Proposal):

Delivery Voyage 2024-2025 (Seychelles to California via Caribbean)
Channel Islands 2026 (based in Santa Barbara until mid- 2027)
The South Pacific 2027-2029 (California to New Zealand via French Polynesia)
The Indian Ocean 2030-2034 (New Zealand to South Africa via Micronesia)
The Atlantic Ocean 2035-2038 (South Africa to Tahiti via Caribbean)

PHASE #1. DELIVERY VOYAGE (’24-’25)

2024 – Delivery Voyage

Seychelles — only granite oceanic islands, endemic coco de mer, outer atolls with exuberant marine life. April.
Madagascar — amazing culture and one-of-a-kind nature. Diving in the north, empty world-class surfing & kiting in the south. May to August
Mozambique — unique and fantastic coastline with diving, kiting, and surfing. September to October
South Africa — Passage Durban-November & December

2025 – Delivery Voyage

Atlantic Crossing — via Ascension Island. Passage in January
Brazil — Fortaleza and north. Passage in February
Caribbean — Martinique to British Virgin Islands. March & April
Panama — San Blas, Panama Canal, on to Isla Cocos. May
Costa Rica to Mexico — Passage in June
Baja’s Sea of Cortez — July to December

PHASE #2. CHANNEL ISLANDS (’26)

2026 – based in Santa Barbara

Cabo San Lucas to Santa Barbara — February
California’s Channel Islands — April to December
- 3 day weekend trips exploring individual islands like Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Catalina.
- 7 day mini-expeditions in the northern islands (SB-Ranch-Miguel-Rosa-Cruz) and southern islands (Catalina-SB isle-Clemente)

PHASE #3. THE SOUTH PACIFIC (’27-’29)

2027 – Official launch of the circumnavigation!