Confirm your crew, collect sailing qualifications and experience levels, sort berth arrangements. Without the admin being rougher than the open water.
2-minute walkthrough
See exactly how Musteer works: create a trip, build a survey, share one link, and watch your group get organised in real time.
A group sailing trip requires a category of pre-trip information that simply doesn't exist on any other type of holiday. The most fundamental question: bareboat or skippered charter: cannot be answered until you know the sailing qualifications of every crew member. Charter companies require proof of qualification and recent experience before handing over a bareboat; get the experience assessment wrong and you arrive to find you can't take the boat out without a professional skipper you haven't budgeted for. Seasickness is not just a comfort issue on a sailing trip: it's a route planning and safety consideration. Certain passages, crossing timings, and anchorage choices depend on knowing which crew members are prone to seasickness and how severely. Night watches on longer passages require helmspeople who can safely handle the boat unsupervised: you need to know who that is before you plan the passage. Berth arrangements below deck are genuinely close quarters in a way that sharing a hotel corridor is not; knowing preferences and sensitivities in advance prevents friction on board. Provisioning for a week at sea: or however many days between marinas: requires knowing the dietary requirements of every person on the boat. The shared kitty for food, fuel, and marina fees only works if everyone has bought into the amount before departure. Musteer collects all of this in a single survey before you contact a charter company.
Collect RYA qualifications, sailing experience, and night watch capability across the whole crew. Make the bareboat vs. skippered charter decision based on actual data. Not assumptions that unravel when you arrive at the charter base.
Survey the crew on seasickness history and severity, and collect berth and cabin preferences for below-deck arrangements. Plan passages and provisioning around real information, not what people say on the day.
Collect what each crew member will contribute to the shared kitty covering food, fuel, and marina fees, and gather dietary requirements for provisioning. Avoid the daily friction of splitting costs on the boat.
Create your sailing trip
Pick "Sailing trip". Musteer loads survey questions built for sailing groups, including qualifications, experience, seasickness, berth preferences, dietary requirements, and kitty budget.
Add destination and dates
Greek islands, Croatia, Turkey, BVI: add a shortlist and proposed dates. Include the type of charter you're considering (bareboat or skippered) so the group understands what the trip involves.
Share one link with the crew
Everyone confirms they're on board and fills in the survey: qualifications, experience, seasickness, berth preferences, dietary requirements, kitty contribution. No app download needed.
Contact charter companies with real information
Crew qualifications confirmed, seasickness concerns identified, berths sorted, kitty agreed, provisioning requirements known. Approach charter companies with exactly the information they need to quote the right boat.
Everything organisers typically ask when planning this type of trip.