Friend trips, well-fed.
The Drake Supper Club is the un-commercial side of SailChecker. Every year or so we charter a yacht somewhere we want to sail, fill it with friends, and run a trip the way we’d want to be hosted. Good food. Better wine. A route that earns its swim stops.
Spare berths get offered to SailChecker members at a real discount. The trade is simple: you give us honest feedback, model for the (low-key) filming crew when we ask, and write a review when you’re home. That’s the whole deal.
Running since 2021 — Athens, Croatia (twice), Sicily, and the BVI so far, with the shape barely changed: a chartered boat, a route decided on the day, and a fancy dress night that always turns up somewhere on the itinerary.
…stunning natural beauty, exquisite food and wine, watersports — and best of all, great company.
Six logged. One open. Two on their way.
Coming · 2027
Trade-wind sailing through the British Virgin Islands. Drake’s Anchorage (yes, really), Foxy’s, Anegada lobster.
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Coming · ’26 (TBC)
All genders welcome — excluding men. 🙂 Same Drake shape, a different set of voices around the table. Pitched as a training week: hands on the helm, lines in your hands, MOB drills. Date locks when the cabins fill.
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Active · Oct 2026
Early October, exact week TBC. Eight cabins around a Sun Odyssey 440, Stromboli at sunset, granita for breakfast.
Reserve a cabin →Split to Šolta, Hvar, Vis, Korčula and Zlatni Rat beach on Brač. Early May sunshine, empty anchorages, Diocletian’s Palace to send everyone home.
See how it went →Seven days, six islands, one Oceanis 46.1. Hydra, Kythnos hot springs, Sounion at sunset. Fancy dress night returned, predictably.
See how it went →Ten days out of Hodge’s Creek Marina, split 50/50 between Chris and Iain Stiles — the same co-organiser now on Sicily ’26. Blackbeard’s old cruising ground.
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Logged · Oct 2023
The trip that gave us most of the photos — and the lesson that monohulls beat cats under sail. Birra Messina, charcuterie in Lipari boats, Nina the Piaggio Ape.
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Logged · Apr/May 2022
2–3 Jeanneau SunLoft 47 Monocats, new to the fleet that year. Guests ran their own Motherwatch alongside the volunteer Drake rep.
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Logged · Oct 2021
Aegina, Agistri, Epidavros, Poros, Hydra, Methana — a week round the Saronic Gulf out of Alimos. Fancy dress on the boats at Epidavros, a formal dinner in Poros as one week’s guests handed over to the next.
See how it went →The London side of Drake — supper club dinners, not sailing trips. Dates and names only; we haven’t written these up yet.
Sourced from Lightroom + Drive folder dates, not from write-ups — there isn’t brochure copy for these the way there is for the sailing trips.