
A wee bit about us

Mar Douro Sailing Tours - Lovers of Sailing and Local History
Mar Douro Sailing Tours was formed in 2017 to provide high-quality sailing tours on the Douro River and sea. Taking people sailing Douro River and the coastline of Porto is a great honour for us! It fills us with pride when people come from around the world to see Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia from the water!
Mar Douro Sailing Tours is aware of just how important your vacation time is for you! We don’t want to disappoint you in any which way. Instead, we want to add value to your holiday. It’s what we aim and aspire to do.
Consistently excellent
Raúl is our sailing tour skipper/guide and is our only tour guide. Each of our awards has been won with him at the helm. You're guaranteed consistency of excellence. All the sailing tours are mandatory to have a second hand on board. This guarantees to Raúl flexibility, full attention and time to communicate and engage with all the guests.
Explore Porto's water with our local guide
Your guide has a pluralistic background and has lived in the Porto region all his life. His passion for boats dates back to the end of the 90’s sailing the Douro River with a runabout boat. In the early 2000s he moved to live close to the water, in Matosinhos (Porto region), and he started to experience the Atlantic Ocean steering sailing boats. Raúl will give you an authentic Portuguese perspective on his nation’s past and contemporary, and in particular about Porto history and culture!