The Prelude · Palma to AMAALA · 2027
One yacht sails east, from Palma de Mallorca all the way to AMAALA on the Saudi Red Sea coast. Four private legs, and every single suite is taken.
Why a prelude
NAORA is sailing around the world. Before any of that begins, the yacht has to make her way east: out of the western Mediterranean, along North Africa, through the Suez Canal and down the Red Sea to AMAALA. That passage is the prelude, and you can be on it.
We split it into four legs so you do not have to give up a month of your life. Each leg has its own port, its own weather, its own character. You can join one and know you sailed something that only happens once.
Everything around the boat is ours to worry about. Crew, provisioning, clearance, canal transit, weather windows. You arrive, drop your bag in your suite and go swimming.
Meet Discovery
Discovery is a 2025 Lagoon EIGHTY 2 made for weeks that unfold without effort. Wide decks, four private suites and the silence of sailing let eight guests move between company and complete privacy.
On the Prelude, she is not a hotel that happens to float. She is the place you live while the Mediterranean slowly becomes the Red Sea.
Step on boardHow the waitlist works
All four legs of the prelude are taken. Every suite, every date. That happened faster than we dared to hope.
Leave your name and email. Plans change at sea, and suites do open again before a passage like this.
The moment a place frees up, the waitlist hears it before anyone else. One personal email, no noise.
The Route
Out of Palma de Mallorca, across to Malta, along North Africa to Alexandria, down through the Suez Canal, and up the Saudi coast to AMAALA. Around 2,350 Nm of sailing, three seas, one yacht. Explore the chart and open the leg that pulls at you.
January
Palma de Mallorca to Valletta
Balearic winter light, Cabrera, Sardinia and Pantelleria on the way east.
February
Valletta to Alexandria
The big blue water leg, past Crete to the coast of Egypt.
March
Alexandria to the Red Sea
Port Said, a full day in the Suez Canal, and the first coral.
March to April
Red Sea to AMAALA
Reefs, sand islands and empty desert anchorages all the way to AMAALA.
Life on board
4 en-suite suites, up to 8 guests, one single group on board. Four crew, no other passengers, no programme to keep up with. This is simply how the days tend to go.
Eating
Fresh from the market in every port. Dinner on deck, breakfast whenever you surface, and a kitchen that adapts to your appetite instead of a printed menu.
Water
Swim platform, snorkel and dive gear, paddleboards, seabobs and a silent electric tender for reefs, coves and empty beaches.
Sleeping
Air conditioned cabins, blackout blinds and windows the width of the hull. The crew sail through the night while you sleep through the miles.
Diving
Full dive gear on board, from reefs off Malta to the wrecks of Alexandria. The crew know the sites, the vis is endless, and the water is warm enough to stay down all afternoon.
Owner's cabin
The owner's cabin opens to its own cockpit, where you sit out of the wind in full privacy and watch the sea go by. Cushions, shade, a drink, and nobody but the horizon.
Yoga
The deck at first light is the quietest place on earth. A morning flow, the sea underneath you, coffee waiting after. No instructor unless you want one.
Inside Discovery
The salon opens straight onto the aft deck. The foredeck becomes a private terrace underway. And the owner's suite has its own place beside the water, hidden from the rest of the yacht.
Under sail
Discovery in her element
Salon
Soft light, open horizons
Owner's suite
Privacy beside the sea
Foredeck
A quiet place forward
Water level
The sea begins at the platform
At the table
A menu shaped with three-star chef Jacob Jan Boerma gives the galley a clear direction. The chef on board makes it personal, seasonal and right for that exact day at sea.
The culinary direction was created with three-star chef Jacob Jan Boerma. Freshness comes first: local fish, bright vegetables, clean flavours and plates made for warm days on deck.
Fresh juices, warm bread, fruit, eggs, yoghurt and coffee appear when the first person wakes. There is no sitting time and no reason to hurry.
Lunches and dinners arrive as a generous collection of dishes in the middle of the table. Seafood, vegetables and comfort food are adapted to the guests, the weather and what the market offered that morning.
A day on board
Coffee appears on the foredeck before you ask. A swim before anyone speaks. The sea is flat and the whole bay is yours.
Fresh bread, fruit, eggs the way you like them. Nobody sets a time. The day starts when you do.
The anchor comes up and the boat goes quiet. Take the helm yourself, read in the netting, or fall asleep in the shade.
The chef serves on deck wherever the coastline looked best. Fish from the morning market, cold white wine, no hurry at all.
The swim platform stays down all afternoon. Snorkel the rocks, take a seabob, paddle to the beach. Or do nothing, gloriously.
Shower, something cold to drink, the light going soft over the water. This is the hour you will talk about for years.
One long table on the aft deck. Courses arrive slowly. Stories get longer. Nobody looks at a phone because there is no reason to.
On passage nights you go to bed in one sea and wake up in another. The watch is never yours. The miles just happen.
Four Legs
January · Mid winter
Palma de Mallorca → Valletta, Malta
Seven nights from the Balearics to Malta. Wide open sailing by day, anchorages with nobody in them at night, and the first week where you forget which day it is.
February · Late winter
Valletta, Malta → Alexandria, Egypt
Eight nights and the biggest blue water of the whole prelude, from Malta past Crete to the coast of North Africa.
Comfort on passage
Everything aboard is designed to remove friction. Cool cabins, reliable connection when you want it, a fast tender and a platform that turns every anchorage into your own place to swim.
About NAORA
NAORA is a private sailing expedition across oceans and cultures, designed to be entered and left on your terms. Not a cruise, not a charter fleet. One world at sea that keeps moving, and you step into it for as long as you want.
The prelude is the first chapter. Before NAORA begins in the Red Sea, the yacht has to sail east, and we opened that passage to a small number of guests. Same crew, same standards, same idea, in miniature.
Discover NAORAThe crew
Sven sails every leg. The rest of the crew are confirmed by name closer to departure, and you meet all four the moment you step aboard.
Captain
Sven runs the prelude from Palma all the way to AMAALA. He plans the weather windows, decides when to move and when to stay one more night in a bay nobody else found, and he is the reason the whole passage feels calm.
Galley
Markets first, menu later. Fish bought that morning, bread out of the oven at breakfast, and a long lunch on deck wherever the coast looked best.
Interior
The quiet reason everything feels effortless. Suites turned down, glasses filled before you notice, and a rhythm on board that never once feels like service.
Deck and water
Sails, tender, dive gear and toys. Everything in the water is ready before you have finished asking, and the swim platform stays down all afternoon.
The waitlist
All four legs, every suite, taken. But a passage like this is a year away, and plans at sea have a way of changing. Leave your email and if a suite opens, on any leg, you are the first to know.
