We sail it and we plan it
Hidden Secrets is the charter where you decide almost nothing and get almost everything. Tell us who is coming, roughly when, and what a good week looks like to you. Then arrive at the boat and let it happen. A professional crew runs the yacht; we build the route before you get here.
The name is not marketing. The Balearics have a famous version and a quiet one, and the distance between them is knowing which cala empties at four in the afternoon, which bay stays workable in a northerly when everywhere else is rolling, and which small harbour is worth a night alongside. That knowledge is the actual product. The boat is how you use it.
What the itinerary work involves
Before you arrive we build a week around your party: the amount of sailing you actually want, the anchorages that suit the forecast, the restaurants worth booking and the ones worth walking past, and the days with nothing scheduled at all, because a good week needs those too. It is rewritten as the forecast firms up in the days before you sail, and rewritten again aboard if the wind has other ideas. You see it well before you commit to anything.
Who is aboard
A day aboard
Coffee on deck while the chef walks back from the market. A morning sail with the wind still gentle, an anchorage by lunch, and the tender in the water for whoever wants it. The afternoon southerly builds and eases; you move round to the night's bay before it does. Dinner aboard, or ashore if the crew has found somewhere worth the walk. Nobody has looked at a chart, a forecast or a booking all day, and that is the entire point.
The three, side by side
Hidden Secrets is the most complete of three ways to take a Sailing Dreams charter. The difference is not the boat — it is how much of the week you want to run yourself.
| Bareboat | Skipper | Hidden Secrets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who sails the boat | You | Our skipper | Our crew |
| Who plans the week | You | You | We do |
| Licence needed | Yes | No | No |
| Crew aboard | None | Skipper, plus chef or hostess | Skipper, chef, hostess |
| Best for | Qualified crews | Most people | Handing it all over |
Practical notes
- Crew: Quoted separately from the yacht. Which roles will fit depends on the yacht's crew berths.
- Boats: Catamarans, larger monohulls and motor yachts, where crew have quarters of their own.
- Party size: Works best from six upwards. Below that, a skipper and a chef usually buys you more boat for the money.
- Season: April to October. July and August book out first, often by March.
- Licence: Not required, and neither is any sailing experience.
