The goal of SailZen is to offer the best yacht charter in the Azores

Happily serving you since 2018

 

Our concept has filtered experience and combined know-how to ensure a safe and enjoyable journey between a professional crew and passengers. Under the motto “go where the wind will take you…”, we are happy to follow the weather conditions and set our routes accordingly to offer our sailors the most amazing sailing trips.

 

Surely we dedicate our lives to surprise positively our passengers, especially because we enjoy seeing happiness reflected on their faces, and therefore we plan to share the sailing feeling with others for the rest of our lives.

 

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Our Mission

Offer the best yacht charter service

We really enjoy making new friends on board and taking part in the activities, while remaining a professional crew and providing a high level of service all the time.

 

 

Connect people with nature

We love to discuss and share awareness about environmental responsibility, sustainable tourism, marine conservation and possible solutions to support the earth.

 

Involve Local Communities

We work primarily with local companies or individuals, farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, artists and often friends to support our supply and the demands of our customers.

 

 

Reduce Carbon Footprint

We enjoy the wind that blows in our sails to travel silently between the islands without constantly burning flammable liquids to get from A to B.

Give a new life to a boat

By retrofitting an abandoned boat, we have recycled an existing yacht and are modernizing it to meet our needs and comfort and avoid building another yacht for the planet.

 

 

A fair price for our passengers

We offer affordable travel when it comes to value for money compared to the yacht charter industry by providing service, support and toys with no hidden costs.

Crew

André Branco

FOUNDER - SKIPPER

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About Me

Hello, Viajante.

 

My friends call me Branco. I was born in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel Island, Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

 

In 1999, a teacher at school made me try dinghy sailing at the local nautical club, and I have not stopped since. In 2007 I started working as a professional crew while traveling the world, learning about different cultures and learning from some of the best yacht charter companies and private yacht captains in the industry.

All my nautical and personal knowledge goes into the SailZen project. I wanted it to start at the most fulfilling place on earth: the Azores Islands… Home.

 

My father loved the song Bob Dylan: “The answer my friend… is blowing in the wind (…)” and I love it that way, that is why we are SailZen because we follow the wind calmly.

 

As I am ready to expand to other destinations, in the near future we will devote ourselves fully to developing new experiences and educational sailing trips in the near future, because I love to teach what I have learned.

 

I hope you enjoy it, you sail and you feel Zen!

Ana Ferreira

MATE - COOK

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About Me

Passionate about nature, the ocean and people, she has extensive experience in hospitality. Aboard our boat, Rita is taking care of or nutrition and morale, as well as helping the captain with watchkeeping and maneuvers.

 

She is conscious about the environment and our impact on the planet, so she makes sure our provisioning is carefully made, local products, seasonal food and no waste packaging is one of the priorities.

 

Rita has a university degree in hotel and tourism management. In the last 12 years, she has lived on islands and working in the hotel industry around the world. In 2017 she started sailing again with André and since then she became a professional crew. Today she has sailed over 20.000 miles.

 

Rita speaks fluent Portuguese, English, Spanish and an intermediate level of French. Communication on board will not be a problem!

 

Dedicated and skillful, Rita also has a good eye for good-looking things, so all our graphic design must go through her approval process.

 

With full commitment, Rita is of course part of the SailZen lifestyle.