Vogavecmoi launches Tunisia flotilla, expanding crew matching into offshore rallies
Vogavecmoi turned its crew-matching network into an offshore rally, with 13 boats signed up within 24 hours and a July run from the French Riviera to Hammamet.
Vogavecmoi is turning crew matching into a bona fide offshore rally with the VOG Tunisia Flotilla, giving sailors a more direct path into a Mediterranean passage without needing to own a boat or assemble a full private crew. The shift moves the platform beyond social boating and into structured event running, with real routes, dates and port-to-port logistics.
Founded in 2010 as a shared-navigation club, Vogavecmoi now says it has more than 107,608 registered members on its homepage, while a forum page lists 102,484 team members and boat owners. The club says it brings boating enthusiasts together on any waters, from regattas to cruising and fishing, and that scale helps explain why this Tunisia project lands as more than a novelty. It is a sign that a long-running crew-exchange community has grown into an event organizer with its own sailing identity.
The flotilla was unveiled on January 28, 2026, and Vogavecmoi said 13 boats registered within 24 hours of the announcement. Later figures point to about 20 sailboats and around 100 participants, with 18 boats already entered, giving the rally real early momentum. Even so, the event still depends on a favorable response from Tunisia’s Ministry of Tourism and local ports, a reminder that this is a cross-border sailing operation, not just a club cruise.
The route is built around a familiar Mediterranean arc. Departure is planned from the French Riviera on July 13, 2026, with stops in Corsica and Sicily before arrival in Hammamet on July 30. Vogavecmoi says the rally pays tribute to the Route du Jasmin, the offshore tradition created in 1990 by Joseph Minniti, known as Jo Minniti, that connected the French Riviera to Tunisia for nearly three decades.
That history matters. The Route du Jasmin once drew nearly 60 boats in 2007 and 43 in 2016, before regional security concerns forced changes in the 2015 to 2018 period. Bringing a Tunisia passage back under a community-led banner gives the VOG Tunisia Flotilla a sharper edge: it is not just a themed cruise, but a test of whether a large sailing network can keep turning online crew matching into organized offshore rallies with enough scale to matter.
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