LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP • WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026 • LIMITED SEATING
For serious cruising dreamers and early-stage buyers

Make informed decisions with your personalized plan

Using the 300+ page illustrated eBook Bluewater Living: A Primer for Aspiring Bluewater Cruisers, we will illustrate the key decisions and steps to generate a personalized plan for the entire crew.

  • ✓Understand realities of life on a vessel.
  • ✓Reflect on motivations, risk and decision making among crew members.
  • ✓Identify the gaps that deserve your attention first.
  • ✓Leave with a practical 90-day Exploration and Acquisition Project Plan.

A working session—not another webinar

What you will leave with

The goal is not to convince you to buy a boat and move aboard. Our goal is to help you make better informed decisions. It is to help you organize the decisions and take the next useful step when your entire crew is onboard.

01

Lifestyle & Crew Alignment

Define the lifestyle, geography, pace, crew relationships, and level of complexity that make sense for you.

02

A more useful vessel profile

Connect your intended use to the capabilities, systems, size, and operating demands that matter most.

03

Your priority readiness gaps

Identify which financial, technical, personal, and operational questions should be resolved before you move farther.

04

A practical 90-day plan

Finish with a short, ordered list of actions that can move you forward without forcing premature decisions. This is not a template. Each plan will be different based on your dreams and abilities.

Workshop agenda

We will surface key decisions in the right order.

The workshop follows the same progression NAVOPLAN uses to help dreamers become informed buyers and prepared owners.

1
Define the life you are planning for

Relationships, purpose, route, crew, timing, comfort, complexity, and risk tolerance.

2
Turn lifestyle needs into vessel requirements

Separate essential capability from attractive—but unnecessary—features.

3
Expose the hidden constraints

Money, experience, health, maintenance, insurance, operating costs, and timing.

4
Choose the next best actions

Create a realistic 90-day plan instead of trying to solve everything at once.

5
Live questions and discussion

Bring the decisions that are holding you back. The session is designed to be practical.

Your workshop leader

Experience informed by real cruising and practical decision support.

Dwain is the founder of NAVOPLAN and a long-term solo cruiser aboard the Nordhavn 40 Amarok. He has completed approximately 18,000 nautical miles of solo cruising and brings nearly four decades of experience in technology, learning, and decision-support systems.

NAVOPLAN was built to help people make better cruising decisions from the first dream, through boat selection, ownership, and passage planning. The workshop is educational and practical. You remain in control of your decisions and your next step.

Our goal is better informed decisions.

~18,000+ nm Solo cruising experience
40 years Technology & Human Performance
One plan Built around your situation

July 29 live workshop

Stop collecting disconnected advice.
Start building your plan.

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