Straight answers

The evidence is early and small. A 2026 study took 15 adults with MS on a 10-day ocean voyage as working crew: no serious adverse events, no dropouts, and every scheduled watch completed. Sailors' own accounts from an earlier voyage describe more hope and confidence and less anxiety.

Physically, that study found little change, and it had no comparison group. We won't claim sailing slows MS.

Duff Archie, a US Sailing keelboat instructor who spent ten years teaching at Washington Sailing School, taught more than 50 Ensigns at the US Naval Academy, and has raced offshore, including the 2026 Annapolis to Bermuda race. His father, Tim, lived with primary progressive MS for twenty years, and the family has raised over $380,000 for the National MS Society as Team Archie since 2017.

Echo Bay Media is our documentary partner. Co-founder Andre Dupuis won Gemini Awards for his photography on the travel series Departures.

We’re flying the Blue Peter, the flag that calls the crew aboard before a ship sails. Our first crew is forming, and our 501(c)(3) status is pending. Next comes one chartered week at sea, once it’s funded. Ahead is a boat of our own, sailing port to port around the world, professionally filmed.

The first sailing will be on a chartered boat. We'll announce the port, dates and length once the boat and the partners are confirmed, so every date we publish is one we can keep.

Safety comes first. Every sailing has a licensed professional skipper and an experienced crew beside you the whole time. You get a safety talk and gear before you leave the dock, and a plan for your MS, made with you before you sail.

Tell us. We plan around it: how long you sail, what time of day, where there’s shade, when you rest. You set the pace.

Tell us what you use. Our first chartered boat may not work for wheelchair users, and we’d rather say so now. Day sails are different. We’re planning them with adaptive sailing programs whose boats are set up for wheelchair users, and a boat of our own would be adapted the same way. Reach out either way.

Only if you want to be. If a sailing is being filmed, you’ll know before you commit, you choose whether you’re on camera, and we’ll walk you through how the footage is used.

Talking with us and joining the crew list cost nothing. We’re raising money so cost isn’t what keeps someone with MS ashore. Before you commit to a sailing, you’ll know exactly what’s covered and what, if anything, you’d pay.

Yes. Crews are mixed on purpose: people with MS, family, caregivers and experienced sailors, all on the same boat.

Oceans of Hope showed that people with MS can crew boats across oceans, and we’re building on what they started. In 2014, Danish physician Mikkel Anthonisen launched a voyage around the world crewed by 94 people with MS from 16 countries. Rob Munns, who has MS himself, went on to co-found Oceans of Hope UK, and has now taken more than 2,000 people with MS sailing since. They both support what we’re doing. Wherever you live, you can sail with them (opens in a new tab), with us, or both.

Nearly a million people live with MS in America alone, an ocean away from those boats. So we’re based here in the US, working with adaptive sailing programs on first sails and building what comes after: passages, ocean crossings and races. We’ll document all of it professionally, so people with MS anywhere in the world can follow along. And it reaches past MS: when anyone living with a disability sees someone like them crewing a boat on screen, it gets easier to say “I’d go.” How it works.

Please do. Research matters, and it works on the disease. We work on the life around it: the isolation, the lost plans, the world getting smaller.

Yes. Gifts support the founding campaign. Our 501(c)(3) status is pending, so for now we arrange each gift personally. Email duff@expeditionms.org or book a call, and we’ll walk you through it.

Yes, if you'd like it to be. Boat experience is optional, and we plan each role around the person doing it. Sail with us is where you start.