Oyster Yachts celebrates half a decade of continuous sailing around the world in Antigua’s UNESCO park, Neslon’s dockyard.

This company has been creating the most luxurious and stunning sailing yachts for fifty years. Their goal is still the same but their yachts are evolving. Oyster Yachts is the creator of the finest bluewater sailing yachts and they have grown from a little shop in England to an international industry leader. They design each Oyster yacht to be a true liveaboard, exciting and adventurous machine. Each yacht is handled with care, meticulous attention to detail and all that is needed in order to take her owners anywhere in the world. The loyalty of their customers indeed shows the quality that they bring to the luxury nautical world. To help celebrate their half a decade of success and love of making boats and sailing, the team ventured down to Antigua and spent a fun-packed week.

“We are Camila, Jurriaan and Christopher (our 13 month old son who has been living aboard our Oyster since he was 6 weeks old). We are the proud owners of Songster, one of the oldest ladies of the Oyster fleet.

Launched in 1979, Songster has been sailing non-stop since her birth. Her first owners had her for about 18 years, doing several transatlantic trips between Europe and the Caribbean. Her second owners completed a circumnavigation with her. The third and last owners before us sailed her for 6 years from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean where we bought her 2 years ago.

We left our home in Curaçao as a couple in February 2021, crossed the Atlantic Ocean that season already expecting our son, and we became a family in December that year. Christopher has spent his whole life – almost 14 months – onboard Songster.

We sailed with the three of us from Portugal to the Baleares, for summer 2022, and after we started our journey south. We sailed to Spain, Morocco, Canaries, Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha and Brazil. We have recently completed 10.000 nautical miles.

Our plan is to cruise down the Brazilian coast and go to Patagonia by the end of 2023. The main goal is to eventually arrive in the Pacific islands. From there we will see where the winds will bring us!”