Adventurous Challenges
After a spectacular 2024 and 2025, we are super excited to celebrate 10 years of Oceans of Hope Challenge!
If you have had a taste of sailing on one of our day sailing or dinghy events, perhaps your next step will be a longer passage with us. This might include weekend sails or our popular flotilla events. Our adventurous challenges offer you a great opportunity to really build on your sailing skills with overnight stays on board and even sailing at night. These give participants so many more opportunities to share their MS experiences with others as well as forming an immediate support network to help them in the future.
We ask that sailors pay for their participation in these challenges. The cost is unique to each individual event and will be available on the application form for the challenge. If you would like to participate but are concerned about cost please contact us, as we may be able to help you identify and apply for grants.
What To Expect
| A more advanced challenge and a natural progression from the Day Sail Challenges.
It gives people who already have taste for sailing an opportunity to develop their skills and to spend more time on board a sailing boat. An adventurous challenge is also fantastic opportunity to meet and get to know others with MS. The challenges come in all shapes and sizes and usually involve a larger sailing boat than our Day Sails. An adventurous challenge is usually over a week, where participants get a chance to immerse themselves in a sailing experience by staying on board overnight.
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A typical experience
You will be met by an Oceans of Hope Volunteer and taken to your boat. There will be plenty of time to meet other participants and chat over a cuppa.
- Introduction to the Oceans of Hope experience
- Introduction to Captain
- Safety briefing and life jackets
- Passage Planning and Navigation
- Learn about sailing or practise your sailing skills
- Sleep onboard in a shared cabin, either anchored or berthed in a marina
Challenge yourself and have fun!
Schedule of our current Adventurous Challenges
Join us in celebrating 10 years of Oceans of Hope Challenge events in 2026!
In 2026, we are very proud to be celebrating 10 years of Oceans of Hope Challenge events. Not only will we be sailing in Turkey, but we have some amazing opportunities to sail on BIG boats in the UK this summer.
Our events in England are heavily subsidised and these are NOT to be missed!
You will see that we have two boats, each hosting three day events in May.
You will also see that we have a week long flotilla in September on the choice of three boats.
Choose your dates and your boat.
Adventurous 3 day trip on board Rona II
On board BIG boat, Rona II. We have an amazing opportunity to spend three nights on board this fabulous yacht. Starting from Southampton, we will sail and discover some new locations. Its a great opportunity for those that weren't able to travel to Turkey. So get on board, brush off those cobwebs and immerse yourself fully again.
Booking opening soon.
Adventurous 3 day trip on board Merrylin
On board BIG boat, Merrylin. We have an amazing opportunity to spend three nights on board this fabulous yacht. Starting from Southampton, we will sail and discover some new locations. Its a great opportunity for those that weren't able to travel to Turkey. So get on board, brush off those cobwebs and immerse yourself fully again.
Booking opening soon.
Our first Flotilla in England!!
After ten years, we are finally doing it! iIn addition to our May sails, we have an amazing opportunity to host a flotilla in England in September.
It has been really difficult to find the right boats down here in England. We are lucky to be working with our friends at The Rona Sailing Project to offer such a brilliant opportunity. We will have six nights on board all three of their boats; Donald Searle, Rona II and Merrylin. Together the three boats will be sailing a little further afield for the duration. You will get the chance to be part of the crew and undertake night sails too. We hope to visit places like the Channel islands or even maybe France (weather dependent)
Food, wet weather gear and life jackets are included.
See following panels to book your place
Get on board Donald Searle in our flotilla
Donald Searle is the largest boat in the flotilla and can accommodate up to 14 sailors.
book here for your place on Donald Searle
Get on board SV Merrylin on our flotilla
Merrylin can accommodate 9 sailors.
book your place here for Merrylin