Water And Wind Liveaboard, Portugal

Name: Azores Islands (Port at Vila Franca do Campo, in São Miguel Island - Port at Vila Franca do Campo, in São Miguel Island)
Start: 2027-07-31
End: 2027-08-07
Location: Portugal

8.8 Fabulous

Free Internet
Naturalist Guide
En-Suite bathrooms
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers

from $ 418 / day Check dates

“Great dive sites and excellent food. ”
Samuel H, United States

Highlights

Comfortable catamaran with just 6-8 guests on board
One of the only scuba diving liveaboards in the region
Available for private charter bookings

The Water and Wind catamaran is one of the few boats offering liveaboard diving in the beautiful archipelago of the Azores. She offers an intimate and unforgettable experience sailing around the Azores Archipelago for up to 8 guests in 4 cabins for private charter/group bookings but will accommodate only 6 guests in 3 cabins for cabin charters to offer ample space comfort. The lounge and galley area offers comfortable seating and indoor dining, or guests can enjoy al fresco meals with stunning sea views on the balcony area. The hammock at the front of the boat is perfect for lazing in the afternoon sun or star-gazing into the night.

The Water and Wind catamaran is perfectly set up to offer diving and sailing adventures in Portugal. Primarily focussed on diving tours around the Azores, the boat visits Ambrosio and Santa Maria, Formigas, Dollabrat, San Miguel, and Terceira. All dives are instructor or divemaster-led, and the accompanying dive tender makes getting to and from the dive sites hassle-free

Book your space today for your trip to the Azores on Water and Wind liveaboard.

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29 May

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,351

FULL

05 Jun

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,351

FULL

12 Jun

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,351

FULL

19 Jun

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,351

FULL

26 Jun

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,351

FULL

03 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

10 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

17 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

24 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

31 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

07 Aug

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

14 Aug

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 3,576

FULL

Included: VAT, National Park Fees, Port Fees, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Naturalist Guide, Snorkeling Guide, Cabin Towels, WiFi internet.

Optional Extras: Gratuities, Alcoholic Beverages, Beach BBQ, Night Dives (€15 / activity), Private Dive Guide (€55), Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (€320-510), Snorkel Gear.

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Boat features

Free Internet
Naturalist Guide
En-Suite bathrooms
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers
Sun Deck
Camera Station
Seaview Cabins
Naturalist Itineraries
Non-Smoking Rooms
Custom built for diving
Charging stations
Indoor Saloon
Library
Outdoor Dining
Audio & video entertainment
Observation Deck
BBQ Area
Available for Charter
Local & International Crew
Separate Rinse for u/w Camera
Outside Showers
Leisure Deck
Bar

Food & Drinks

Fine Cuisine
Al Fresco Dining
Vegetarian Options
Free Soft Drinks
Beer available
Wine Available
Fine Wines Selection
Welcome Cocktails
Snacks All Day
Western Food
Local Food

If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.

Diving

Shaded Diving Area
DIN Adaptors
Tech diving
Rebreather Support
Rinse Hoses
Dive deck
Tenders for diving
Sidemount Diving

Languages Spoken

The crew speaks English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Gear Rental

Equipment is available for rent on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. If the rental gear is not included in the price, you will need to pay for it on board the boat. Show prices

Drawings & Vessel Layouts

Cabin Types

Boat Specifications

Year built: 2016

Year renovated: 2021

Length: 44 feet

Beam: 7.5 meters

Cruising speed: 6 knots

Engines: 2 x 55 Hp

Max guests: 8

Number of cabins: 4

Number of bathrooms: 4

Tenders: 1

Water capacity: 1450

Fuel capacity: 475

Freshwater maker: yes

Boat navigation and safety

Radar
Depth Sounder
GPS
Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
E.P.I.R.B. Distress System
Emergency Rafts
Life Vests
Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
Oxygen
First Aid Kits
Fishfinder
Satellite & mobile phones
Bilge pump alarm
Search light
Crew trained in first aid
Emergency flares

Water And Wind Reviews

8.8 Fabulous
20 Verified Reviews

Vessel

8.4
Crew

9.0
Food

9.4
Diving

9.0
Value

8.2

10 Exceptional
David C
France

Amazing experience
Great experience. The cook (who is also a diving instructor himself) cooked very delicious vegan food for me. The boat was comfortable, the crew was very nice. The dive guide was very professional. Everything was great. We also saw a lot of beautiful things - lots of life, caves, gorges and other beautiful underwater landscapes
Recommended for
Top dive guiding. Nice and comfortable boat. Nice crew, delicious food.
12 Aug, 2024

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10 Exceptional
Nicolai H
Austria

Wonderful experience with excellent crew
diving experience was outstanding with terrific mobula ray encounters and reaching locations that can hardly be accessed otherwise, the crew always knew how to arrange things for the best experience, also including the opportunity to skip a dive and visit Santa Maria instead which was great.
Recommended for
magnificent diving, great food, lovely crew
14 Aug, 2022

10 Exceptional
Artur D
Poland

Great overall
Space is tight but well organized. Great and friendly crew. Great food. Amazing Mobula Ray encounters, 10+ at the time. 2 close encounters with Whale Sharks, unfortunately just snorkeling.
Recommended for
Great Crew. Overall expirience. Great Spots for Mobula Rays.
16 Aug, 2024

8.8 Fabulous
Joseph F
United Kingdom

Get away from the crowds and dive Santa Maria, Formigas & Dollabarat.
Good for getting away from everyone and having dive sites to yourself with a maximum of 8 guests.
Recommended for
Diving with mobula rays. Diving Formigas & Dollabarat. No other dive boats.
22 Aug, 2026

9.6 Exceptional
Abigail S
Switzerland

Amazing experience!
Spent my birthday on this trip and saw my first ever Mobula ray which was a dream come true! lots of dolphins and even a whale! The ocean is cold and the wind too, but the crew made sure we had a great time nontheless! Was a great experience. Would definitely recommend! :)
Recommended for
Ambrosio, Dolphins and birthday
27 Jun, 2024

9.2 Superb
Vincent C
Netherlands

Best loveaboard of the atlantic
Saw lots of bigger schools and refound a love for cavern/cave diving
Recommended for
The crew, seeing 20+ manta's in one dive, and super cool caverns
30 Jul, 2023

10 Exceptional
Camille C
France

10/10 Would recommend to all divers
Had an amazing week on Water & Wind going to Santa Maria and Formigas. Even saw whales and dolphins from the surface. Carlos, Levi and Tiago made our stay really comfortable and reacted well to changing situations!
Recommended for
Captain Carlos and the whole crew. Seeing Dolphins swim in front of the boat so close we could almost touch them. Seeing Mobula rays!.
17 Sep, 2026

8.8 Fabulous
Shun C
France

Unique and
Highly recommend water and wind liveaboard : Carlos runs a superb and unique experience to discover Azores Oceanic diving. Staff (diving and chef) are awesome
Recommended for
Awesome team. Superb diving. Food and service.
05 Sep, 2024

9.6 Exceptional
Diogo L
Portugal

Diving, eating and relaxing
The week was everything I wanted, to relax, dive and rest. The crew was very nice, always making sure we had everything we needed for diving or for meals. The captain Carlos was very nice and tried to manouver around the weather to give us the best diving experience and the dive guide, Alexa, the same. We didn't see any whalesharks and only a few mantas, but that's nature, it is beyond our control. I was lucky because only one other couple was on bord, the remaining canceled last minute, so instead of 7 divers we were only 3, which made the experience much more enjoyable. The boat is confortable but not very big, so I imagine it could be a bit crowded with full occupancy, specially the 4th cabin that would have to share the bathroom with the crew. Totally worth it, I highkly recommend it!
Recommended for
Friendliness of staff. Confort on board. Small group.
20 Aug, 2024

8.4 Very good
Nicholas H
Brazil

Great experience around the Azores.
I had a beautiful experience aboard the catamaran Hélia with an amazing team from Water & Wind.
Recommended for
Diving. Nature. Amazing Staff.
10 Sep, 2026

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8.0 Very good
Alex K
Switzerland

Wonderful experience
We had a wonderful week on water & wind liveaboard. Crew was friendly, very helpful, stay was very comfortable and we had amazing diving experiences seeing many rays and whale sharks. Highly recommend
Recommended for
Friendly crew. Great food. Amazing diving.
05 Aug, 2025

9.2 Superb
Oliver S
Canada

A great experience, notwithstanding a little queasiness at times owing to rough seas.
The mantas at Ambrósia.
Recommended for
Helpful crew, good captain adjusting itinerary for weather, well organized.
30 Aug, 2023

9.6 Exceptional
Jonathan S
United States

Fantastic Trip!
We had a great time during our week on the Water and Wind. The crew was extraordinary: friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Though small, the boat was great, and sitting on the sun deck or the bow was a wonderful pastime between dives. Food was excellent. Diving was done safely and professionally, with the guides putting safety first always, but also allowing for exploring of different types of topography and animals. We loved the blue water dives, where mobula ray sightings are near guaranteed. Highly recommend!
Recommended for
Small group. Friendly crew & dive guide. Good food.
29 Jul, 2024

10 Exceptional
Daniel S
United States

Great Liveaboard Trip!
We had a great liveaboard trip on Water & Wind. The boat is small, but has very nice rooms and only felt a bit crowded when everyone was getting their wetsuits on and off. The crew and food were great during the trip. The diving was different than what we were used to but it was interesting. It was bit cold and wish I brought a drysuit. Overall it was a great trip and would recommend it to other people to experience in addition to all the amazing topside things to do on land.
Recommended for
Great crew, great food, and good diving
04 Aug, 2022

9.6 Exceptional
Samuel H
United States

Highly recommend
Great dive sites and excellent food. First time on a catamaran and I enjoyed the experience! I have been on 7 Liveaboards and I highly recommend this one.
Recommended for
Dive sites. Food. Catamaran experience.
12 Aug, 2024

8.8 Fabulous
Magali V
France

Great crew, fantastic food but unfortunate with the weather
We have been very unfortunate with weather conditions and cold wond really make the expérience less magic. Still the crew really tried their best to make it worth it : we had some very good dives with Mantas, baracudas, geological formations, wrecks. Then the food was very good !
Recommended for
Crew, food, few guests
08 Aug, 2022

9.6 Exceptional
Aida K
United States

Excellent diving and sailing experience
Captain and dive crew were amazing. Diving was good too, but cold. Very good trip for sailing, diving, whale and dolphin watching.
Recommended for
Dive crew, cabins, sailing
05 Aug, 2022

8.8 Fabulous
Dominik V
Switzerland

Familiar small group cruise in a modern catamaran, with Mobulas, whale sharks and dolphins
Familiar small group cruise in a modern catamaran, with Mobulas, whale sharks and dolphins
Recommended for
Nice and knowledgable team. No other liveaboards around -> so you are often almost alone at remote divesites. Great food.
28 Aug, 2025

4.8 Review score
ROXANA C
Argentina

Overbooked catamaran and promotion that is misleading in terms of the number of divers!
Catamaran where 6 divers can go comfortable but 8 CANNOT! The platform is not enough for so many and they should have a crew member to collaborate in the maneuver given the little space and time available to equip themselves with thick suits due to the low temperature.The outdoor table where all the meals are made with more than 6 divers is also not comfortable, with the aggravating factor that it is constantly wet because it is next to the diving platform. Not even during rainy days did they set up the indoor table!If you are asked to collaborate in certain aspects, there are common sense issues to take into account such as regularly emptying the BINS in the bathrooms to improve the stay...Despite the friendliness of the captain, guide, and cook, it could have been a much better experience!!
Recommended for
Camaraderie. Dolphins during the crossing. I didn't feel bad even though almost everyone else did.
15 Aug, 2026

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3.2 Review score
Nuria B
Spain

Don't expect a reliable and quality liveaboard: DISAPPOINTING!
It has been the worst liveaboard I have ever done. The catamaran is small for 8 people, and it is not like in the photos: The interior table is unusable because it is full of crew junk, and it was already like that when they received us. You can only use the outdoor table that was used to eat (tight) and that was normally used by people, so if you wanted calm and work on diving photos there was no place, since the room is tiny, to the point of having to enter the bed by your feet. At no time do they change your towels throughout the week, so on the third day they already smelled regular, nor did the toilet paper bin in the bathroom. Obviously they don't clean floors or make beds, or anything at all. The toilet ends up seared and dirty. You have to do it all yourself, since as I said, there is only one cook, the dive guide and the captain and owner. The cooking started well, but then it turned into more school dining room cuisine (lasagne, spaghetti carbonara, potato lasagna, rice very old), no haute cuisine. Boring dives, without any interest. There was also a small fire that made you return to the port of origin. The catamaran is not worth the price they put even close, at most 900€. There is also no nitrox on board. I think asking 3190€ is a real scam.
Recommended for
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
16 Sep, 2026