Days Under Sail on a Sixty Foot Catamaran
Open the trip living aboard and moving with the weather. Take the helm, trim a sail, swim before coffee, and go to sleep at anchor over white sand.
November 20 – 25, 2026 · The Bahamas
Into The Blue Bahamas
A five day sailing and freediving retreat through the clearest water on earth, with people who build things.
Presented by
Andrés Preschel
Founder and CEO at KYP
John Kowitz
Freedive Instructor and Award Winning Underwater Photographer
A small group of founders. Open the trip under sail on a sixty foot catamaran, then settle into private villas on Long Island. Certify as a freediver in Dean's Blue Hole, run out each day by center console to island hop and spear your own dinner, and watch a gourmet chef cook it while the sun goes down.
$1,500 per guest holds your cabin and applies in full to your investment. Bringing someone? Pick your guest count at checkout.
5 Days
Boat and Villa
30m
Freediving Cert
60ft
Catamaran
All In
One Investment
November 20 to 25, 2026. Join Andrés Preschel and a small group of ambitious founders for a five day retreat split between a sixty foot catamaran and private villas on Long Island, The Bahamas. Certify as a freediver in Dean's Blue Hole, island hop and spearfish by center console, eat what you catch, and learn to sail. Everything is included in one investment.
~60 Feet
Sailing Catamaran
Private Villas
On Long Island
Gourmet Chef
Every Meal
Full Kit
Dive and Spear Gear
Dean's Blue Hole
Freedive Certification
Small Group
Founders Only
The Experience
Seven Things That Make This Retreat Different
This is not a charter and it is not a conference on a boat. It is a short, dense week built around skill, water, food, and the people you share it with.
Freediving Certification in Dean's Blue Hole
Train and certify in Dean's Blue Hole off Long Island, one of the deepest blue holes on earth. The course runs to 30 meters, about 100 feet. Most people certify at 20 meters, and nobody is pushed past what their body says yes to.
Guided Spearfishing
Learn to hunt on a single breath with an instructor beside you. Approach, aim, patience, and the ethics of taking only what the group will eat that night.
Catch and Cook With a Gourmet Chef
What you bring up gets broken down and cooked the same day, on deck or back at the villa. There is no shorter distance between effort and dinner.
A Villa Base and Daily Boat Runs
After the sailing days, settle into private villas on Long Island. Center consoles run the group out each day to new cays, reefs and spearfishing grounds, and bring you home for dinner.
A Crew of Ambitious Founders
Everyone here is building something. Five days on the water with no agenda produces conversations that a dinner and a business card never will.
All Inclusive. One Investment.
Cabin and villa, every meal from a gourmet chef, all freediving and spearfishing equipment, instruction, certification, and the boats that take you out each day. You book your flight and show up. Everything from there is handled.
Optional Certification
How Deep You Actually Go
The course runs to 30 meters, trained in Dean's Blue Hole, a 202 meter column of still blue water off Long Island. Almost nobody starts at 30. This is what the descent looks like, stage by stage, and where most people land.
Breathe First
Everything starts on the surface. Breath hold mechanics, relaxation, equalization, and the buddy and rescue protocols that make the rest of it safe. No experience assumed and none required.
Your First Real Descent
Duck dive, free immersion down the line, and relaxed finning. Most people reach this on day one and are surprised how unremarkable it feels once the breathing is right.
The Working Depth
Constant weight descents, the first taste of mouthfill, and a comfortable depth for reef and spearfishing. This is where the majority of the boat certifies, and it is a genuinely excellent place to finish.
If Your Body Says Yes
The deep end of the course, for the small number of people whose equalization and comfort get them there inside the week. It is an option, never a target. Everyone else has a very good time at 20.
The certification is optional. Plenty of people come for the sailing, the spearfishing and the company, snorkel the reefs, and never sit a single course session. That is a completely legitimate way to spend the week.
Your Freedive Instructor
John Kowitz
John Kowitz is a freedive instructor and underwater photographer who left cold fresh water in Michigan and never really came back. He now teaches and shoots in the clearest water on the planet, from The Bahamas to French Polynesia.
He holds his breath past five minutes and works comfortably at depths most people only see through a screen. For this week he runs the freediving instruction, the safety protocols, and the guided spearfishing, and he does it with the patience of somebody who has taught a lot of first timers.
Certified Instructor
Freedive instruction from first breath to 30 meters
Underwater Photographer
Published work and 73k people watching him work
Spearfishing Guide
Guided hunting on a single breath, safely
Bahamas Waters
Years of diving and shooting these exact reefs
Ready to spend a week under sail?
A $1,500 deposit holds it. Cabins are limited and November is close.
A Day Out Here
The Rhythm, Not a Schedule
This trip does not run on a spreadsheet. Some days start under sail, some start at the villa. Here is the shape a day takes, and the honest caveat about how it gets decided.
Dawn
Water Before Coffee
Off the back of the boat, or straight off the villa dock, into whatever colour the water is that morning. Breath work while the kettle goes on.
Morning
Under Way, by Sail or Console
On sailing days, hands on the lines and someone new on the helm every leg. On villa days, the center consoles load up and run out to the cays.
Midday
Freedive Training
Line work with John, building to sessions in Dean's Blue Hole. Equalization, technique, and a personal best that keeps quietly moving.
Afternoon
The Hunt or the Reef
Guided spearfishing for whoever wants it. Reef, sandbar, or a beach that nobody else is standing on for everyone else.
Sunset
Catch Becomes Dinner
The chef takes the day's catch apart and cooks it, on deck or at the villa, while the light goes orange and then pink and then gone.
Night
The Part People Remember
At anchor or on the villa terrace, no signal, no reason to be anywhere else. This is where the conversations that justify the whole trip happen.
A fixed day by day itinerary would be a fiction. Routing, dive sites and anchorages are chosen on the water by wind, weather and what the group wants. That flexibility is the point, and it is also why the week is better than a printed schedule.
Catch and Cook
From the Reef to the Deck in One Afternoon
Most people have never eaten something they caught themselves. It recalibrates how food tastes for a while afterwards.
01
Take It
One breath, one shot, an instructor within arm's reach. You learn to read the reef, pick a fish that should be taken, and leave the ones that should not.
02
Break It Down
On the swim platform, hands wet, learning where the fillets actually are. It is a skill that transfers straight to any kitchen you walk into afterwards.
03
Eat It
A chef cooks it on deck, that same day, with the sun going down behind the rig. Nothing you order for the next month is going to compete with it.
Gallery
The Water You Are Booking
Who Is Aboard
A Boat You Would Choose
The water is the reason you book. The people are the reason you come back.
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Founders and operators People who run something and rarely stop running it. The shared context means nobody has to explain themselves.
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Ambitious about their health, not just their work This is a KYP trip. Breath, sleep, cold water, real food and physical skill are the actual currency here.
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Comfortable being beginners Almost nobody arrives knowing how to freedive, spear or sail. Being visibly new at something is half the value.
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Not looking to network There is no pitch slot and no name badge. Five days at anchor does what a hundred coffees does not.
Proof
This Is Not Our First Trip
Photographs from the last KYP retreat: Alaska, August 2026. A different ocean and a colder one, but the same crew, the same standard, and the same kind of people around the fire.
November is the same idea in warmer water. Catamaran instead of camp, reef instead of river, and thirty metres of blue underneath you instead of spruce.
Verified Clients
What Andrés's Clients Say
Real results from real people who trusted the process.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"My energy levels have gone through the roof, I've gradually lost 10% of my bodyweight whilst keeping enough energy to increase muscle mass."
Simon Denyer
Co-Founder at PEAK Sport Media, former CEO at DAZN
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Working with Andrés is like having Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman in your back pocket AND on speed dial."
Parker McCurley
Founder and CEO of Decent DAO
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Working with Andrés has profoundly changed my way of life for the better beyond what I imagined possible."
Mickey Duek
3rd place ($4M) winner, 2022 World Series of Poker
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"There are few people like you, and the hours we spent together are like gold."
Kevin Ryan
Founder and CEO at AlleyCorp, Co-Founder at Business Insider
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"His EQ makes the process feel natural, and the fact that he's done most of what he vouches for motivates you."
Ziv Tubin
VP of VC Operations, former Director of Operations at WeWork
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"His methodology is extremely thorough, and he would be a great resource for anyone looking to improve their health and wellness."
Bianca Andreescu
US Open and Canadian Open Champion
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"My sleep metrics went from good to absolutely elite. My average sleep percentage climbed to near 100% and I have maintained that for six straight months now."
Kyle Hulbert
Health Coach and Biohacker
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"I no longer have high blood pressure, no longer reliant on Adderall, and I am lifting and performing like I am in my 20s again. I feel like I have gained 20 years back."
Phillip Wroughton
Superintendent at Choate Construction
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"His data informed mindset helped us stay motivated and focused on health as something integrated with real life, and that perspective was appreciated."
Joe Poulin
CEO of Luxury Retreats and JPK Capital
Investment
Reserve Your Cabin
All inclusive, $7,500 to $15,000 per person depending on the cabin. A $1,500 deposit per guest holds your place, and couples travelling together receive a discount.
Everything Included in Your Week
$7,500 to $15,000 per person, all in. No hidden fees.
- Your cabin aboard the catamaran for the sailing days
- Private villa accommodation on Long Island
- Every meal, prepared by a gourmet chef
- Freediving instruction and certification in Dean's Blue Hole, optional, up to 30 meters
- All freediving equipment: mask, fins, wetsuit, weights
- Guided spearfishing with all gear provided
- Catch and cook sessions with the chef
- Sailing instruction and hands on time at the helm
- Daily island hopping and spearfishing runs by center console
- Safety and dive equipment, plus onboard supervision
- Snorkel and swim gear for everyone aboard
- Host led sessions and discussion with Andrés
- Fuel, dockage, permits and cruising fees
Secure Your Cabin Today
Cabin Deposit
$1,500per guest
Holds your place. Applied in full to your investment.
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Request Your Deposit Link →Cabins are still being finalized with the boat, so there is nothing to choose today. Your deposit holds your place at the same rate whichever cabin you end up in. We confirm your cabin and your balance with you directly once it lands.
Questions before you commit? Email Andrés directly
$7,500 to $15,000 per person, all inclusive, set by the cabin you end up in · couples travelling together receive a discount
Getting There
Two Ways to Join Us
Sail the crossing with us from Miami, or fly in and step aboard. Both land you in the same water.
Option One
Sail With Us From Miami
Join the boat in Miami and make the crossing with the crew. You get the passage itself, real time on watch, and the part of sailing that only happens when land is out of sight. The best way to arrive if you actually want to learn to sail.
Option Two
Fly In and Meet the Boat
Short on time? Fly into The Bahamas and meet us at the rendezvous point. You skip the crossing and step straight into the islands with the rest of the group.
Dates are November 20 to 25, 2026, give or take a day at either end depending on weather windows. Hold your flights loosely and we will confirm the exact travel days well before you book.
What to Pack
What You Bring, What We Provide
Boats are small. Pack light, pack soft, and leave the hard suitcase at home.
You Bring
Keep it to one soft bag
- A soft duffel or dry bag Hard suitcases do not fit in a cabin
- Swimwear, two or three sets
- A long sleeve rash guard Sun protection beats sunscreen on a boat
- Reef safe sunscreen Required for diving over live reef
- Hat and sunglasses with a retainer strap
- A light layer for night passages It gets cool under way after dark
- Motion sickness remedy Bring it even if you think you will not need it
- Valid passport, plus any personal medication
- A towel and a basic hygiene kit
Aboard for You
Included for every guest
- Linens and towels, aboard and at the villa
- Full freediving kit Mask, snorkel, long fins, wetsuit, weight belt
- Spearfishing equipment Bring your own if you prefer your setup
- Snorkel gear for everyone aboard
- Safety, dive and rescue equipment
- Every meal, plus water and provisions
- Certification course materials
- Foul weather gear aboard for passages
All dive gear is included. If you own kit you love, bring it. If you own nothing, bring nothing. Both work.
Questions
Frequently Asked
None. The course starts at the surface with breathing and
safety, and most people on the boat will be doing this for the
first time. Being a beginner is the normal case here, not the
exception.
No. Learning to sail is part of the trip. There is a
professional crew running the boat and you get as much time on
the helm and the lines as you want. Some people take every
passage, some people read on the trampoline. Both are fine.
It is optional and it is included either way. You can do the
full course and certify, do the training without sitting the
assessment, or skip it entirely and snorkel the reefs. Nobody
is talked into a depth they do not want.
The course runs to 30 meters, about 100 feet, but most people
certify around 20 meters or 70 feet and that is a genuinely
good result for a week. Equalization is usually the limiting
factor, not fitness or willpower.
You should be comfortable in open water and able to swim
without anxiety. You do not need to be fast or have any
technical background. If deep water makes you genuinely
nervous, tell us before you book and we will talk it through
honestly.
A large catamaran is far more stable than a monohull, much of
the time afloat is at anchor in protected water, and the
villa nights are on solid ground entirely. Bring a remedy
anyway and start it before you board rather than after you
feel it.
You split the trip between a private cabin aboard the
catamaran and a villa on Long Island. Cabins vary in size and
position on the boat, which is what moves the all inclusive
total between $7,500 and $15,000 per person. We are
finalizing the boat and the villas now, so there is nothing
to choose today. Your $1,500 deposit is the same either way,
and we walk you through the categories and the balance as
soon as everything is confirmed.
Yes. The all inclusive total runs $7,500 to $15,000 per
person depending on the cabin. A $1,500 deposit per guest is
paid upfront to hold your place and applies in full to that
total. Financing options are available on the balance, so it
does not have to be a single payment. Pay the deposit above
and we will confirm your cabin and walk you through the
balance options.
Yes, and several people are. Select the number of guests
above and the deposit scales with it, $1,500 each. Couples
travelling together receive a discount on the all inclusive
balance and usually take one of the larger cabins. Tell us
who is coming and we will match you to the right one.
Either. You can join the boat in Miami and make the crossing
with us, which is the better option if you want real sailing
time, or fly into The Bahamas and meet us there. We confirm
the rendezvous point and timing with everyone before flights
get booked.
Patchy and often absent, depending on where we anchor. Plan
for it to be unreliable and tell people at home in advance.
Most guests describe the disconnection as the best part of the
week by day three.
The route changes, not the trip. The Bahamas has enough
protected water that the crew can reroute around almost
anything. That is exactly why there is no fixed day by day
itinerary. The stated dates can also shift by about a day at
either end for the same reason.
Reach out directly to discuss any concerns about your booking.
We will work with you to find a fair solution depending on the
timing and the circumstances.
November 2026
The Blue Is Waiting
Five days. One breath at a time. No signal, no schedule, and a boat full of people worth knowing.
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days until we cast off
$1,500 per guest holds your cabin. Cabins are limited by the size of the boat, and when they are gone they are gone.