Membership FAQs

A SailTime membership gives you regular, guaranteed access to a fully maintained yacht -without owning one. You pay a monthly fee, book your sail times through our online scheduler, turn up at the dock and go sailing. Maintenance, insurance, cleaning and marina fees are all covered. It's the affordable way to sail, without any of the hassles of boat ownership.

Via our exclusive on-line SailTime scheduling software. The software allows you to reserve and swap schedules in real-time. You are allocated sailing ‘slots’ each month that you can use that month, bank for use in the following month or borrow unused slots from the previous month. You can schedule your sailing times up to a year in advance, anything from a day sail, an overnight sail or a weekend.

Yes. Every evening ‘sail time’ slot starts at 6.00pm and ends at 10.00am the next morning.

The guaranteed monthly sailing slots are divided into weekend day/evening, weekday days/evenings. Friday is a weekday. Friday evening is a weekend evening sail time. The Scheduler keeps track of these categories of usage and together with other rules ensures all members a fair and equitable chance of booking their preferred sailing times.

Absolutely! You can schedule an unlimited number of slots if they are available within 30 hours.

The yacht is made available to only a limited number of members and the Owner-Member, giving each member plenty of guaranteed sailing time per month.

There is a one off joining fee of $1,800 (for Gold members) and $1,300 (for Silver members) which provides 2 days induction training. Gold members have automatic membership to SailTime Plus giving you access to over 115+ yachts in 30+ locations worldwide. Silver members pay a one off fee of $350 to access SailTime Plus.

SailTime take care of it. In the event that your boat is unusable, your SailTime Base will charter in a replacement after a short qualifying period until your boat is repaired.

No. Membership is inclusive of all costs. Your only liability is the insurance excess should you have an accident which was partly or entirely your fault.

All our yachts are extremely well equipped with chart plotter, autopilot, electric windlass, self furling jib, lazy jacks, bimini, dodger, galley items and other features that make sailing easy and enjoyable. All SailTime boats are fully certified to the Maritime safety standards and carry extensive safety equipment.

Members wash down the topsides, clean below decks and remove their rubbish, etc. after use. SailTime will ensure that the boat receives a deep clean every month. These measures ensure you get the boat in pristine condition each time you go sailing.

It varies. For Yacht Membership, the membership fee is a flat rate and includes all diesel and cooking gas used. For Trawlers and Powerboats, there is an additional fuel & engine levy payable by the member

The Membership Agreement makes provision for those members who abuse SailTime’s policies to be fined or ultimately removed from the program.

None! SailTime is able to take members who are complete novices. An important part of the SailTime program is the nurturing and training of our members through RYA/YA courses to become competent, safe and confident skippers & crew

Yes. As well as enjoying sailing at your local SailTime Base, our global network of bases provides a unique opportunity to sail other yachts around the world. SailTime Plus Membership lets you make advance reservations worldwide on currently over 115 yachts in 30+ locations.

Yes. Members can upgrade at any time and your base manager will assist you to do so.

Yes you can. Classically the ‘Member’ is husband and wife, but the second person could be a partner, sibling, friend or business colleague. Obviously you share the time allocation of 1 membership. However, as frequently happens, you both sail together the majority of the time, but you have effectively halved the cost of membership!

After your initial 12-month commitment, your membership automatically moves to a rolling monthly arrangement. You can continue sailing month by month, upgrade or change your membership level, or simply give notice and conclude your membership. There's no lock-in beyond the initial term and no equity to unwind.

SailTime was the first in ‘fractional’ membership sailing and is the world leader. With our proven concept you can benefit from our experience and investment over the last 15 years and enjoy easy, affordable and accessible sailing.