Bora Bora by Sail
A crewed sail through Bora Bora — empty anchorages and sunsets on your schedule.
- Sailing
- Ideal length: 8-11 days
- Best time: May through October brings the dry, cooler season, when the lagoon turns its clearest turquoise and skies stay reliably open.
- Private guiding, access and transfers throughout
- From US$17,000 per traveler — a starting point, tailored to you
- Designed one-to-one by a Forest Travel advisor
- Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels
A crewed sail through Bora Bora — empty anchorages and sunsets on your schedule.
Few places on earth pair a caldera peak, a ring of coral motus and a lagoon this luminous, all arranged for private, unhurried days.
When to go
May through October brings the dry, cooler season, when the lagoon turns its clearest turquoise and skies stay reliably open. Your advisor times it to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.
The experiences
A sense of what this journey can hold — each one arranged privately and shaped to you:
- A crewed sail from Bora Bora to Taha'a, dropping anchor where the lagoon opens quietest.
- A morning at a deserted anchorage, the tender ready whenever you wish to swim.
- A vanilla-plantation visit on Taha'a, arranged privately between passages.
- Sundowners on deck as the crew sets your evening course under a clear sky.
A sense of the rhythm
Life aboard moves at the pace of wind and water. You wake to whichever bay you chose the night before, spend the day swimming, reading and going ashore, and let the crew handle everything between. The itinerary bends to you, not the other way around.
A fixed base or a crewed sail?
A single overwater villa gives you rootedness and every comfort within reach. A crewed sail trades that for movement, waking to a new anchorage and reaching islands day boats never touch. For travellers who tire of one view, the sail is the more generous choice.
How to do it well
The counsel our advisors give travelers planning this journey:
- Give us your must-see anchorages early so the route is drawn around them.
- Pack soft-sided luggage; it stows far more easily aboard than hard cases.
- Trust the crew on daily timing, as they read the wind better than any schedule.
- Keep a night or two ashore at either end to bookend the voyage in comfort.
What only your advisor can open
The difference between a good trip and an unrepeatable one is access — and access is a relationship, not a booking. Every guide, room and moment is chosen and sequenced for you.
Who it's for
Travelers who value privacy, time and doing it once — beautifully — and who would rather have one trusted advisor orchestrate every detail than assemble it themselves.
Estimated investment
From US$17,000 per traveler, based on double occupancy — scaled to your dates, party size and level of privacy. A starting point, not a final quote; confirmed once your advisor tailors the itinerary.
Designed entirely around you
Nothing here is a package. A Forest Travel advisor shapes the whole journey and stays one message away before and throughout your trip.
Your Virtuoso privileges
As a Virtuoso member, Forest Travel includes benefits reserved for Virtuoso guests at the finest luxury hotels, at no added cost: a room upgrade on arrival when available, daily breakfast for two, a property credit toward dining or spa, and early check-in with late check-out when the hotel allows.
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