Sally Lightfoot

Sally Lightfoot

Sally Lightfoot stands for adventure far off the beaten track. Sally Lightfoot offers scientists, camerateams and adventurous travellers and yachties the possibility to explore the world’s remotest places by expedition sailing ship. She develops and manages a fleet of identical sturdy 110 ft expedition vessels, with Long Tall Sally and Wild Sally the first to be launched.

To be able to expand her fleet, Sally Lightfoot welcomes ‘adventure capitalists’, people not only wanting to invest in a company with a fresh look at yacht ownership, but also desiring to invest in their dream: to explore our globe’s most distant and inaccessable shores on their own keel.

Our vessels’ predecessor, 45 ft yacht Sally Lightfoot, circumnavigated Africa in five years. Many articles as well as the book ‘Around Africa’ were published on this voyage. During the cruise the idea hatched to start sailing professianally to remote places. The company Sally Lightfoot was founded to provide safe and comfortable expeditions for explorers and yachtsmen eager to push some boundaries sailing, as well as some sailing boundaries.

Interior design

Wild Sally’s interior proved to be an extraordinary challenge for Rhoades Young design studio. Tt was to be a no frils, modern yet stylish interior that could withstand the abuse the expedition members would throw at it. Specific expedition requirements didn’t make Rhoades Young life easier; a floating film and photography platform, an on board [...]

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Ruling Dutch Tax authorities

Recently Sally Lightfoot Ltd. has entered into an agreement with the Dutch Tax Authorities in which it has been acknowledged that the structure for investing into one of our vessels, will allow the investors to profit from a taxprogramme geared at stimulating the economy. This makes Sally Lightfoot Ltd. the first and only Dutch shipping company operating sailing vessels, [...]

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Sally Lightfoot

Sally Lightfoot stands for adventure far off the beaten track. Sally Lightfoot offers scientists, camerateams and adventurous travellers and yachties the possibility to explore the world’s remotest places by expedition sailing ship. She develops and manages a fleet of identical sturdy 110 ft expedition vessels, with Long Tall Sally and Wild Sally the first to [...]

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