Secret London Covers Yacht Week's 20th Anniversary Routes for 2026
By Yacht Week
Posted on 17th August 2026
Twenty years on, one university trip is now a four-destination sailing season
Secret London marked Yacht Week's 20th anniversary with a rundown of what's changing for summer 2026. Staff writer Vaishnavi Pandey traces the line from a small trip between university friends in 2006 to a sailing format that now spans seven destinations, with more solo spots and a new sister brand added to the mix this year.
What Secret London Covered
Pandey opens with the origin story: a 2006 university trip that's since grown into one of the best-known names in sailing holidays. From there, the piece frames 2026 as a genuine milestone year, built around an expanded programme across Croatia, Greece, Sicily and French Polynesia, alongside a bigger role for sister brand Yachts and Friends.
Co-founder Erik Biorklund gets a direct mention, speaking to why the format still matters at a moment when, as the piece puts it, people are more isolated by technology than ever. That idea, real connection over screen time, runs underneath the rest of the article.
Croatia is treated as the constant: the original route, and still the one the piece leans on hardest for texture, naming Hvar and Vis as highlights against the Adriatic coastline. Structurally, a typical week is sketched out as sunrise swims and long sails by day, raft parties and DJ sets once the flotilla regroups by night, with island stops, tavernas and beach time filling the space between.
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Worth a read for how the piece frames Biorklund's take on real-world connection, and the full rundown of what's new for the anniversary season.
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