Not a cruise. A crew.
Live aboard, pull your weight, and see where she goes. You’re one of the crew for the trip — not a passenger on a cruise.
A family, a motor yacht, twenty-seven years — and, most trips, a spare cabin.
You’re crew, not a passenger
Come aboard Dreamworld and you get a berth in a spare cabin, a share of the watches whilst underway, and a hand in everything from the lines to the washing-up. That’s the deal, and the good bit — you don’t watch the trip happen, you help it happen.
And if you’ve never set foot on a boat before — no problem at all. Most people arrive with no experience at all… we all have to start somewhere and we will teach you everything you need to know at a comfortable pace as we cruise.
This is the part that turns “could I really do that?” into “when do we leave?”
Dreamworld
“trawler yacht”, in the US
Thirteen metres of Brazilian mahogany, drawn by a naval architect and built by hand over five years by Simon’s father, Paul. She’s a genuine one-off — not chosen off a forecourt, but designed for the sea and still being improved every season.
A family, not a charter company
There are four of us aboard Dreamworld. You won’t be handed to a hired skipper and a rota of staff — you’ll be sharing a galley table with the people whose boat this is.
Simon, Laura, Tristan and Roxy — and room to make it five.
Meet the crewThirty-four years of passages
Every track detailed since 1992 — down Biscay, through the Med, across the Atlantic, up to the great lakes, down the Mississippi, up the Pacific seaboard, the length of the Mediterranean and more… Nineteen massive trips and counting. The twentieth hasn’t been drawn yet.
See the voyagesThis is a non-profit
Crewtrips isn’t a business. Nobody draws a wage — not Simon, not anyone. Every pound that comes aboard goes straight back into keeping a 27-year-old motor yacht running, and nothing else.
Roughly £75 a day sharing, £100 for a cabin to yourself — and it varies trip to trip. It isn’t a charter price and it isn’t profit; it’s your share of what she costs to run that week, split between the crew aboard.
Setting up expectationsDonations and sponsorship are genuinely welcome — but so is kit. A spare bit of gear, tools, electronics, provisions: it keeps her going just as much as cash does, and it’s the thing nobody thinks to offer.
There’s a spare cabin. It could be yours.
It’s an enquiry, not a checkout — tell us who you are and roughly what you’re after, and Simon comes back with a price for your dates. Nothing’s booked until you’ve both said yes.