Azam MarinaSailing catamaran
Lagoon 450 Sport · 2017
10646 ft
From€8,170/ week
Zanzibar Flotilla Charter
Flotilla charter in Zanzibar: sail your own yacht in a led group on a set route, with live availability. Tell us your week and we answer the same day.
Yachts
Azam MarinaSailing catamaran
Leopard 48 · 2016
10648 ft
From€4,940/ week
How fixed is the route?
Pre-set, but flexible by ±1 day or ±1 anchorage if the fleet votes. The lead boat's job is to get you to a marina each evening with a berth waiting — that requires planning.
Do I have to do everything with the group?
No. Daily activities are optional. Some couples skip the group dinners; some boats peel off for half a day. As long as you reach the evening marina, you're free.
What if I haven't sailed for a couple of years?
Flotilla is the format. You'll have a refresher with the lead skipper on day 1, and the daily briefings cover anchoring + docking specific to the day's marina.
Can kids come?
Absolutely — flotillas are the most kid-friendly format. Other families in the fleet, evening activities, fleet rhythm (early starts, early dinners) suits them.
When do flotillas run?
June to mid-September in the Mediterranean. Saturday-to-Saturday. Calendar published 6 months ahead — 8-12 per season.
Zanzibar sits off Tanzania's coast in warm, shallow water that runs from milky turquoise over the sand flats to deep blue past the reef edge. The sailing is easy: short hops between islands, a reliable trade wind for half the year, and anchorages where the loudest thing at dawn is a dhow crew hauling sail. You share the water with those dhows — lateen-rigged, low, older than the marina — and with fishermen working the channels off Stone Town. It is not a hard-charging distance ground. It is a place to move slowly between reefs, snorkel, and watch the tide fill the sand bars. Right for first charterers, families, and anyone who wants heat, colour, and short passages; less right for sailors chasing big open-water miles.
Sailing in company — the guided group experience
A flotilla is a small group of yachts sailing a set route together, led by a crew on a lead boat. You sail your own yacht, but never alone — a daily briefing, a hand into harbour and someone to call if anything's unclear.
It's the reassuring step up from a skippered week for newer skippers, and a sociable one: fixed departure dates, shared anchorages and a route the lead crew knows cold.