— how we got here
Every ocean, the long way.
Holoholo is a 2023 Nautitech 46 Open — a serious blue-water sailing catamaran built in France. But she didn’t fly here. Between her launch and her arrival in French Polynesia in April 2025, she crossed two oceans the way sailors have for a thousand years: with the trade winds, one leg at a time.
She left the French Atlantic coast in 2023. From there: Madeira. Cape Verde. Across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Through the Panama Canal into the Pacific. Down to Easter Island — one of the most isolated inhabited places on Earth. And finally, in April 2025, into the Tuamotus.
Two full oceans. Real weather. Real miles under the keel. It’s the kind of journey you can’t fake, and it’s why we trust her with our guests in some of the world’s most demanding sailing waters.
— who’s on board
Two people, five roles.
Adrien — the captain, known on board as Adri — crossed the Atlantic under sail, spent seven years cycling across Latin America, then crossed the Pacific by boat again. Dani, the chef, dive instructor, and yoga teacher, ran her own restaurant on Easter Island before joining a Pacific crossing that eventually brought her to Fiji. That’s where their paths crossed, and they’ve been sailing together ever since.
On board, they’re two people doing what most yachts need five to do. Off board, they’re the two people we trust with everything.
— the owners
A boat, and a life on it.
Ocean Eco Adventures exists because two people — Lothar and Laurie — believe a sailing catamaran in French Polynesia is the ultimate way of living, and wanted a way to share it.
Lothar is originally from Austria. He immigrated to America in 1996, built a life in Hawaii, and never stopped being a passionate sailor. Laurie, his partner, is from Colorado. Together, they spend as much time on Holoholo as their Hawaii businesses let them — but because those businesses need running too, they wanted the boat to earn her keep between their own voyages.
That’s where Ocean Eco Adventures comes in. Every voyage we host is a chance for guests to experience Holoholo the way Lothar and Laurie first fell for her — anchored in a quiet lagoon, meals coming off the galley, the trade winds doing the work. It’s the closest a week can get to a life afloat.
Pono is a Hawaiian word for right action — for being in the right relationship with the ocean, the reef, and the people who share it with us. It’s the standard we hold ourselves to on Holoholo.
Small groups. Low-impact anchoring. No plastic bottles for the length of a voyage. Reef-safe sunscreen on board. Provisioning from local island markets when we can. A boat quiet enough that we can hear what the sea is telling us.
Come see for yourself.
The best way to understand what we do is to sail with us. A week in the Tuamotus tells you more than any website ever could.