No spin
Everything a skeptical, capable person would ask before putting their name on anything. Short answers. No hype. "We don't know yet" where that's the truth.
Part one
No. There's no boat, no platform, no crew. Right now there's a muster roll — a list of people who want in — and nothing else. We're not going to dress that up as more than it is.
A spot on the muster roll. Your name, what you bring, and a way to reach you. No boat is picked, no money changes hands, no commitment beyond "I'm interested." We use the list to find the first boat and the first crew.
No. Every crew needs people who can sail, but it also needs people who can fix an engine, keep the books, cook for six, or earn a living remotely while at sea. Sailing helps. It isn't the only ticket aboard.
Whatever a small floating household actually needs — mechanical and electrical work, carpentry, navigation, cooking, medicine, money management, a remote income. Tell us what you've got on the roll. We're mapping people against a boat, not grading them.
A small group, early, building it in the open instead of behind a pitch deck. The muster roll is how we find the rest of the crew — that includes, eventually, more of us. We'd rather show you the work than sell you a bio.
Part two
We don't know yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. It varies boat to boat — a project buying a modest cruiser needs less than one buying something bigger. The buy-in isn't there to make anyone rich. It's there to filter for people serious enough to put money behind their name.
Depends on the boat. Some projects offer real equity — a stake in the entity that holds the hull. Others offer a berth: the right to live and work aboard, without a vote on decisions. Which one you're offered is set per boat, not by Plundr.
Not Plundr. Never Plundr. The hull sits with the captain's own entity, or a company the crew forms together — an LLC or a trust, named on the actual paperwork. Plundr is where you found each other, not a name on the title.
Honestly, this is one of the open questions we haven't solved. A boat isn't a liquid asset — you can't cash out a stake in a hull the way you'd sell a stock. Buyout terms, vesting, exit windows: all boat-specific, and still being worked out. More on that on the open questions page.
Not solved. Those questions sit with whatever entity ends up owning the boat, and the answers will differ by boat, by flag, by country. We're not going to promise an answer we don't have.
No. A timeshare buys you a week a year in someone else's building. This is people forming a crew, buying and running a boat together, and living aboard it — an ownership stake or a working berth, not a slice of vacation time.
Those match you to a passage — a delivery, a season, one trip. This is longer: you're finding people to actually own or crew a specific boat with, long-term, with money and time at stake on both sides. Different problem, different commitment.
Yes. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Boats cost to maintain, dock, insure and fix, always more than budgeted. The honest comparison isn't "free" — it's a mortgage you're also on the hook to maintain, except split four or five ways among people who actually live aboard and use it every day instead of paying a marina to let it sit.
Part three
Wherever the boat and the crew decide. We're not picking routes — that's set per project, by the captain and the crew who signed onto it.
No. Remote earners are one of the trades we're actively looking for on the muster roll — someone who can work from a laptop and help cover costs is as valuable as someone who can splice a line.
Sign on and say so. Space, safety and schooling are real questions, and every boat and crew will read them differently. That's a conversation for a specific project, not something we can settle in general here.
They help us work out which boat to chase first, and let us come back to you when there's something real to offer. We don't sell them, and we don't pass them to anyone else.
Still stuck
If your question isn't up there, put it to us straight. Sign on and ask — we'd rather answer than have you guess.
No boat yet. No platform yet. Just the roll, and who's willing to sign it.