Blue Rim 5™ Global Sailing Expedition
Blue Rim 5™ is a global expedition sailing adventure built to invest in the world’s children while telling the hard truth about a dangerously warming world.
Blue Rim 5™ is a long-range, multi-year sailing and racing expedition that follows the blue edge of the planet—coastlines, islands, and the harbors and river mouths we can reach under sail—one stretch at a time, with the world’s children and a dangerously warming world at the center of the story. A mixed fleet of small expedition sailboats and larger guardian vessels moves in stages, linking water to water as conditions allow, while we put young people on real shorelines and let them see, first-hand, how a heating planet is already reshaping life along the waterline. We’re not a cruise, not a yacht club, and not a packaged tour; we’re a living, evolving expedition where crews join the legs that make sense for them, help tell the truth about each coastline, and then pass the wake on to the next runners.
The Nevado Raiders™ / Blue Rim 5™ model is built for the century we actually live in—a century of kids growing up in a brutally warming world. We start small, learn fast, build the fleet, and keep going as long as it makes sense and the risks are acceptable. Small expedition sailboats and larger guardian vessels move in stages, always with two questions in mind: what can we give the next generation in terms of skills, courage, and perspective—and what are we learning, honestly, about how a hotter planet is changing the coasts and rivers we move through?
Our core boats are small, trailerable sailboats like the Hobie Getaway, Catalina 22 Sport, and similar designs. They can sail in shallow water, land on beaches, and be hauled overland between lakes, rivers, and coastlines. These are the boats that touch the shorelines, meet people up close, and live the day-to-day adventure.
Alongside the small boats we’ll have larger guardian vessels—both sailing and power—that travel slower and carry more. They provide extra safety, logistics support, and camera angles, and they give less-experienced crews a margin of comfort in bigger water.
We cannot trace the blue rim of the planet and lie to children about what is happening to it. Blue Rim 5™ is being planned in a century of rising seas, hotter surface temperatures, and more violent storms. Shorelines are flooding, beaches are disappearing, and some families are already losing the ground under their feet. We are not interested in polite, vague language about “change”—we are here to look a dangerously warming world in the face, listen to the people who live on its edges, and let the next generation see that reality with their own eyes.
Island chains, channels, and historic ports; hopping between cultures while we learn what it means to move a small-boat expedition through busy waters.
Crossing to Europe, working our way through the British Isles, Atlantic coasts, and north toward the Scandinavian waters that inspired much of this project.
The inland sea of history, narrow choke points, and careful timing through the Red Sea and onward toward the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia.
From Asia and Oceania across great stretches of Pacific water, through island nations and atolls, and eventually back toward the Americas to close the circle.
NOTE: All routing remains subject to weather, politics, safety, and common sense. The mantra is simple: we go where it makes sense, when it makes sense, and we are always willing to pause or reroute if conditions change.
As the expedition grows, we’ll develop Young Raiders experiences that blend schoolwork with saltwater: navigation, weather, basic seamanship, language, and local history—all learned in the places they actually happen.
We move with a simple ethic: every coastline belongs first to the people who live there. We’re guests. Our job is to listen, learn, and share the story onward with respect. Blue Rim 5™ is built around cultural exchange, peace, and the idea that we owe each other basic care wherever we go.
Blue Rim 5™ is a sailing project on the surface, but underneath it is about kids and coastlines in a heating world. We care about how children grow up along the waterline—what they see out their windows, what they’re losing, what they’re afraid of, and what still gives them hope. We want young people on boats, in harbors, and on beaches, seeing for themselves how climate is reshaping daily life, instead of growing up with nothing but doom-scroll headlines and adults who won’t talk straight.
Every expedition ends up with its own small rituals and running jokes. Blue Rim 5™ is no different. Around here, we try to keep things light without losing sight of safety and respect for the sea.
The Rim Runner™ is our official sundowner cocktail—a blue-water drink with a dark rum storm line on top. The recipe was kept quiet from 1984 until its public release in 2025, and it comes with its own small code: the first drink of the session starts with the toast; “Better Beachy than Bitchy™,” the second with “Better Beachy than Busted,” and when the glass is empty and the logo appears at the bottom, the only words you need are “Anchor down.”
It’s a joke, but it’s also the point. We choose sand, salt, and good humor over grumbling when the wind and water get interesting. The built-in self-check is simple: if you can’t say “Better Beachy than Bitchy™” clearly and fast anymore, you’re done with alcohol for the day—Beachy, not busted.
We want people to wake up ready to sail, not regret the night before. Blue Rim 5™ is about long arcs, not one wild evening. Enjoy the moment, respect the boat, respect the body, and keep yourself—and the fleet—off the rocks.
Blue Rim 5™ is a multi-year expedition sailing adventure designed to trace a vast circle around the planet’s ocean rim. It’s a moving classroom, a cultural bridge, and a working testbed for how ordinary people, families, and kids can travel more thoughtfully along real coastlines in a rapidly warming world.
Before the global legs, we use the Sea of Cortez as our working classroom. From Puerto Peñasco to La Paz, the Nevado Raiders™ test boats, systems, protocols, safety drills, and daily life aboard small expedition craft. Tentatively scheduled for Sep 25-Nov 25, 2026.
The formal Blue Rim 5™ voyage launches from Brownsville, Texas, then follows the Gulf and western Caribbean coastlines south toward Panama, following the coastlines as the fleet learns to move as a single organism.
The launch date is currently set for early May, 2027.
Blue Rim 5™ runs on an “and/and” model: small expedition sailboats at the edges of the water and larger guardian vessels carrying fuel, tools, power, and backup. Both are essential. Both are welcome.
Young Raiders are kids and teenagers who join parts of the voyage—on guardian vessels, small boats, or shore-based segments—to see the planet up close instead of through a screen. They don’t just hear about climate, culture, and seamanship; they live inside those realities day after day.
As the expedition grows, we’ll build Young Raiders experiences that drag climate and responsibility out of the abstract and into real salt water. Kids and families won’t just read about weather, navigation, and sea-level rise in a classroom—they’ll steer, anchor, and walk the shoreline in places where those forces are already visible. The goal isn’t to terrify them; it’s to give them real skills, real context, and the sense that they’re allowed to ask hard questions about the world they’re inheriting.
🧠 Blue Rim 5™ welcomes Adult Raiders from every field where knowledge, curiosity, and purpose collide. We’re looking for boat owners/mariners that are marine biologists, climate scientists, oceanographers, humanists, engineers, physicists, data analysts, medics, teachers, navigators, historians, linguists, conservationists, emergency responders, artists, filmmakers, writers, and field researchers—people who care deeply about the world and want to share what they know with the next generation. Whether you teach weather systems, build renewable solutions, restore ecosystems, study cultures, or simply know how to keep a crew safe at sea, there is a place for you in this expedition. Adult Raiders are the mentors, the steady hands, and the carriers of wisdom who help the young sailors understand not just how to sail, but why this world matters and how to take responsibility for it.
🎥 Blue Rim 5™ will be filmed, logged, and shared as we go—through documentary footage, short-form clips, podcasts, written dispatches, and live calls with classrooms. Not to show off, but to pull more people into the conversation about how we live with the coastlines we depend on.
We are serious about this work, but we are not trying to do it alone. If you feel that tug in your chest when you hear the sea calling, if you have a skill to share or a boat to bring—or if you’re simply ready to help from shore—reach out.
Small and large sailboats, guardian vessels, expectations, self-funded model for now.
You don’t need a boat to be part of this—educators, scientists, filmmakers, logisticians, donors. However, you will have to find a vessel owner willing to take you on as crew.
Nevado Ranch Camp LLC - Sole ownership of all Nevado Raiders™ / Blue Rim 5™ media, branding, and expedition rights by Daniel Roe (Catamaran Dan)
