We are searching for a phenomenal captain & mate to purchase a catamaran and a cooperative charter business to live the cruising life in the South Pacific, raise a family, while hosting a wonderful community of adventurous families on trips in beautiful islands. If this is your dream, or you know someone perfect, keep reading 🙂
A Unique Moment
We are selling our 46ft catamaran Selaví , as we prepare for the Expedition on our new boat. Our reason for selling: we are starting a boat school circumnavigation program with our 3 year old twins on a 60ft cat in Seychelles. Otherwise, it is frankly hard to say good-bye to this place!
We know it’s super hard to buy a catamaran ($$), and especially hard to make a living that supports the sailing lifestyle. Since we developed a successful model with Green Coco for cooperative charters, which is both sustainable and satisfying, we want to enable other captain & mates to do this too.
So we are offering a superb deal for the right applicant: the opportunity to own a revenue-earning boat & business (cooperative charters in French Polynesia) and we can even seller finance for you at great terms (if you can’t finance it yourself).
Why not just sell the boat?
If we don’t find a perfect candidate, we might just sell the boat outright. But we want to make it available for seller financing, including the business, because we believe in this model and we think it’ll make the pie bigger for everyone.
The value to us? Our co-op members continue to have access to a great boat in the South Pacific at affordable prices, and another awesome new couple gets to enjoy this lifestyle! We get to “pay it forward”, and see the co-op grow.
Ideal Candidates
The ideal candidates are a captain & first mate/chef couple. They are exceptional hosts, very adept sailors, able to fix almost anything aboard a sailboat. They love cooking delicious wholesome food, enjoy a wellness practice like yoga & meditation, excel at communication, are natural at teaching (sailing, freediving, etc) and are endlessly patient, hard-working.. and of course are an avid waterman/woman who love ocean sports like surfing, kiting, diving, long distance swimming, etc.
This position is for a couple with entrepreneurial spirit who always dreamed of owning their own boat and business, and are very community oriented and sociable. You’ll be part of the Green Coco cooperative, a sailing organization that creates unique, transformative, participatory adventures at sea. We aren’t a regular charter company… we are a private group of ocean lovers and adventurers who also offer public trips. Read our testimonials.
The ideal candidates would be a couple:
- a professional captain with significant experience navigating in complex environments under pressure keeping 100% cool and good attitude
- a very enthusiastic first mate/chef with passion for wholesome, nutritious food
- knowledge and enthusiasm for wellness practices such as yoga, breathwork, meditation, non-violent communication, and similar
- considerable experience in freediving, scuba diving, surfing, kitesurfing, and other water sports
- loves to teach others and has infinite patience with guests and kids
- you have a decent amount of cash to invest for the downpayment, or access to financing
Details
Here’s the nitty gritty.
Our sale listing for our 46ft catamaran Selaví is here.
She is available for purchasing outright if we don’t receive qualified applicants.
If running a Green Coco sailboat in the South Pacific is your dream, but you don’t have all that money… you might be in luck! You can pay for the boat over time, while earning revenues through the co-op, becoming the new owner of a 46 ft catamaran and a cooperative charter business.
What you’ll get exactly:
- full ownership of an epic 46 foot catamaran with 4 suites and 3 single berths (sleeps 11), ready to sail the world. See boat tour. Includes French Polynesia importation duties (~$30K) and many expensive water toys ($10K)
- business partnership in Green Coco, with a revenue stream that is fun and satisfying.
- if needed, seller financing with very competitive terms — extremely tough to get these days
As a business partner / boat owner, you’ll be in charge of your own future and gain profits according to your work, backed by the Green Coco cooperative to reduce your risk ( if there isn’t adequate trip revenue in a given year, we can give you a certain number of forbearances).
Through our co-op investment program, we may be able to help you secure a part of the downpayment with pre-sales, and reduce your total debt.
We’re really proud to be able to offer this to someone. We consider ourselves super lucky we pulled off the best sailing lifestyle imaginable (at least for us!). Now we get to help someone else launch their dream too. Honestly, it is all thanks to our cooperative, who continues to make this epic Green Coco adventure possible. We are harvesting some serious collective stoke !
Note: if you are an ideal candidate but don’t have sufficient funds for a downpayment, we may have an option for a different entry-level boat for you. You can still apply!
Timeline
We will offer sea trials aboard Selavi in the Society Islands from November 17-December 5 (fly into Tahiti, and possibly take a ferry to meet us)
The boat is available for purchase on or after December 10, 2023.
About Green Coco:
Green Coco is a community organization that offers authentic, family-friendly sailing adventures in French Polynesia and around the world. Our boats are owner-operated, offering a real taste of the cruising life at sea. Guests participate in boat activities to feel truly part of the journey. We create transformative, learning voyages with a wellness focus: offering workshops in breathwork, yoga, sailing, cooking, and more, which contribute meaningfully to visitor’s daily life back at home. The majority of trips include members who come back regularly over the years; everyone lends a hand on the boat. As a result, our trips and interactions with guests are like family & friends, very different to conventional charter trips.
How did Green Coco start? We are a sailing cooperative that grew organically with a group of friends exploring the Channel Islands of Santa Barbara, California. The founders are Kristian & Sabrina, who first launched Green Coconut Run in 2015, a 3 year trip to Tahiti via Galapagos and Pitcairn, on the classic 42 foot trimaran Aldebaran. By hosting up to 4 guests in 2 week trip legs, over several years, more than hundred co-op members and guests joined this maiden expedition. We developed signature community trips that are authentic, participatory, affordable, and transformative. Read more here.
In 2020, we formalized Green Coco cooperative charters and purchased Selavi, a 46 foot catamaran, in order to also offer family-friendly voyages for all-ages. Kristian and Sabrina now had two new permanent crew members: their newborn twin baby girls! Over the last three years, we ran dozens of trips as a family, primarily in Tuamotus, with visiting adventurers and their families, ranging from 8 month babies to 80 year olds. Our guests are return visitors from the co-op , plus members of the public seeking a special, unique experience.
In 2023, we created the Green Coco Expedition, an around-the-world boat schooling project on a 60 foot catamaran. Due to this new voyage beginning next year, we are now offering Selaví to new owner-operators, along with a Green Coco business partnership, as we expand the co-op’s services to the community. Read more about the Expedition and our co-op, or see our public charter website here: www.greencococharters.com
HOW TO APPLY:
If you’d like to become the next Green Coco captains in French Polynesia, please apply by sending the following 3 items to captain@greencoco.org:
- VIDEO: a 2 minute video introducing yourselves (casual selfie is fine)
- RESUMES: please send your resume (nothing fancy needed.. please don’t spend too much time on making this perfect), plus a short paragraph/addendum with your experience with sailing, cooking, hospitality
- FINANCING: Whether you can self-finance or need seller financing from us; and if so, how much downpayment (estimated range) could you make?
Please send the above 3 items to captain@greencoco.org.
THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK!
