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Private Sailing Charters

We never consolidate groups. Book a truly private sail aboard our luxury monohull sailing yacht, especially for you and your loved ones. From an array of experiences from the therapeutic morning to the romantic sunset sail, for couples up to 12 passengers aboard a luxury yacht, we cater to discerning clientele who appreciate the exclusivity and intimacy afforded by a private, captained, sailing yacht.

The Captain's Table

Experience dinning alfresco with white table cloth in the helm of the yacht slipped in front of beautifully lit up Burton Chase Park or moored off the shoreline of Santa Catalina Island. Cuoco Mancini will take you through creative fusions from his Italian childhood, and professional career working in many fine dinning restaurants. Influenced by his grandmother who spent days hand-rolling pasta and homemade Italian pastries. You can opt to include a 5 star dinning experience prepared by Cuoco Mancini to any sail.

Island Adventures

A genuine California Adventure awaits just off shore in the still undeveloped and pristine environment of the local Channel Islands including Santa Catalina, just 37 nautical miles from our port in Marina del Rey. Fishing, snorkeling, lobstering, kayaking, mountain biking and hiking await your adventurous spirit with memories to last a lifetime. Book a 3 or 4 day adventure to the crystal clear waters of Catalina with a professionally Captained private sailing yacht, private chef and island tour guide.

Seadoo PWC Excursions

Fly across the open ocean with your friends on a brand new 2017 SEADOO personal water craft. With the fastest and most luxurious personal water craft on the market, you can fly across Santa Monica bay and back in under two hours. Join Captain Mancini as part of a guided tour in the Santa Monica Bay to Malibu, Palos Verdes, Catalina or beyond. Where ever we cruise our Seadoos will get you there fast! This excursion has unclose and personal encounters with the California Sea lions, dolphins and grey whales!

The Lobster Adventure on the Captain's Dinghy

Cruise on the Captain’s Dinghy from Marina del Rey to his secret lobster spots in the Santa Monica Bay. Leave right after sunset and make our way under the stars and the moonlight as you learn how to bait, and drop traps to catch the noctural Pacific Lobsters, Dungeness and Soft Shell crabs. Whatever we catch is yours to take home!

Hoist the Movie Skipper

Get comfortable on the bow or helm, as we swing the boom and hoist the main to project your favorite movie, or television show on the ship’s main sail.


Yacht Delivery

USCG Licensed and experienced Captain and crew are available at your disposal if you need help delivering your yacht to any location. Old Plank is here to assist you and fulfill any delivery needs you may have.

Corporate Housing

Looking for more space than a hotel room? We have you covered with our Luxury Corporate Housing. Starting at $175.00 per night, we can host you in one of our private corporate luxury condos or houses. For more information, scroll down to the Works section below and click on the Corporate Housing Tile.

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Guided Seadoo Adventures

Category: Seadoo Adventures

Fly across the ocean on 2018-2021 Seadoo's. We offer a variety of guided personal water craft (PWC) adventures onboard the most luxurious jetskis on the market. Weather your are a beginner, experienced, or expert rider we have the expedition that will calm your adventurous soul! For you beginner and intermediate riders whom are wildlife enthusiast, join us for the two or three hour Wildlife Seascape excursions, where you can get up close and personal with some of the most incredible animals of the Pacific Ocean. Including Pelicans, Sea Lions, Dolphins and Whales! For you intermediate and expert riders looking for an adventure to last a lifetime, join me on the Paradise Please or Island Seascape packages for a half day adventure up to Paradise Cove in Malibu, or a full day to Avalon or Two Harbors on Santa Catalina Island! Fly across the ocean at high speeds, get up and personal with incredible wild life, and get the ultimate thrill of anchoring and swimming into the beach with daypacks, to enjoy a relaxing lunch in the prestine sands of Malibu or Catalina Island. Captain Mancini will be fully equipped with underwater GoPros and ariel drones to give you some epic footage for your own social media!

Sailing Adventures

Category: Sailing Adventures

Old Plank offers only luxury private sailing adventures daily for morning, afternoon, sunset or moonlight with reservations only. (Time slots change throughout the year depending on daylight savings hours)

All of our sails include gourmet hors d'oeuvres prepared by Chef Mancini, paired with a bottle of wine.
*If you have food aversions or dietary restrictions please let the chef know a head of time.
ideally our summer hours for 3 hours sails goes out daily at:
10:00 am - 1:00 pm morning 
1:30 pm -4:30 pm afternoon 
5:30 pm -8:30 pm  sunset 
9:00 pm -12:00 am moonlight 
Looking for that early morning or afternoon escape? Join us before the sun make its highest point in the sky as we make our way to the calm Santa Monica Bay. Play with dolphins, whales, and the California Sea Lions as they hunt for their morning fish. Enjoy the calmer rhythms of the Pacific Ocean and the light morning sea breeze, as you kick your feet up in the helm or on the bow of Prima Stella, while enjoying morning hors d'oeuvres, mimosas, or the Captain's coffee grown from his farmers in the coffee triangle of Pereira and Manizales, Colombia. Nothing beats experiencing the sunset from the ocean sailing quietly across the bay powered by the wind. Come Join us! It's unbelievably Therapeutic! Here's a few of the sunsets we've been fortunate to experience. Check out our "Therapy" package for hourly sailing pricing. Your private sailing yacht awaits you for that relaxing moonlight escape. Enjoy the lit up coastline of Los Angeles, as we leave the white lighted dinner cruise boats behind, and sail our way out of Marina del Rey into the Santa Monica Bay, under the glistening moonlight. After the sun sets the oceans nightlight makes its way to guide us under the constellations of the starry skylight. Listen to the rhythms of the wind, the crashing beach waves, and the barks of the California Sea lions; as we play with dolphins and cleans our palate with gourmet hors d'oeuvres paired with wines from around the world.

Yacht Deliveries

Category: Yacht Deliveries

In addition, Captain Mancini is available for hire to deliver any type of Vessel up to 100 Tonnage. With over 5,000 delivery hours logged, Captain Mancini has delivered many yachts up and down the Pacific, Atlantic, and European Mediterranean coastlines.

Island Adventures

Category: Sailing Adventures, Seadoo Adventures

Captain Mancini offers private gourmet sailing charters and epic aquatic expeditions to the Channel Islands and beyond. Just 37 nautical miles from Marina del Rey, lies Santa Catalina. Captain Mancini will guide you on an epic adventure, preparing gourmet foods, sharing stories, and getting you up close, for incredible wildlife encounters. No matter what tickles your soul, Captain Mancini will guide you as Cruising World Magazine published “An adventures of a life time”! Once we arrive to the Island, whether anchored, moored, or slipped, Captain Mancini will be there to prepare gourmet meals, accompany you for dinner, or guide you on hiking trails for you to engulf some of the most beautiful and breathtaking views of the island. With a combination of options for hotel accommodations, Air B&B’s, hostels, beach camping, or prefer to be home by sunset, Captain will communicate directly with you to customize the most incredible seascape adventure imaginable.

Sailing (this is a multiple day trip - 2 day min) (5-6 hour sail each way)
PWC Seadoo Island Escape Adventure *can return same day (1.5-2 hour each way)

Captain's Table

Category: Captain's Table

Whether you'd like to order à la carte or a five course farm to cockpit experience, using some of the finest ingredients sourced from boutique wild-caught fisheries and farmers markets, we can intrigue your palate. Captain Mancini will preset you with a creative experience of fine foods created from his traveling, family, and fine dining hospitality experiences. He takes a lot of pride sharing sustainable foods he endures from his direct relationship with Omega Blue, whom have partnered with artisanal sources, both farmers and fishers, providing the purest, most nutritious seafood on the eastern pacific coast. Pairing you with fine wines, from around the world, and giving you an intimate white table cloth and up close viewing of the galley, while he cooks right in front of you table side! Captain Mancini will also share some gourmet deserts from his Italian childhood and his small batch roast from his coffee beans, grown in the coffee triangle of Pereira and Manizales, Columbia.

Add to any Sunset Sail for $125 per plate

Five Course Dinning Option
Up to 4 guests
*Does not include Ca State Tax, Gratuity, or Alcohol.

Captain's Lobster Adventure

Category: Captain's Table

The perfect combination of excitement and relaxation. This Adventure starts after sunset as we motor through the Marina to the Captain's secret lobster spots. There, Captain will teach you how to bait, drop, and set the lobster cages for Pacific Spiny Lobsters, Dungeness and Soft Shell Crabs! Hey, he may even share a few tricks up his sleeve. Enjoy the gentle movements of the moonlighted sea as we kick our feet up and relax in the captain's dinghy as we wait for our dinner!

IMAX YACHT

Category: Image Location & Film Production

COMING SOON!

Old Plank Sailing Fleet

Category: Our fleet

We are purest at heart. Classic monohull sailing aboard a vintage sailing yacht is an incomparable experience. Sail aboard a luxurious modified Islander 36 redesigned and refitted by Captain Mancini. We're also big fans of the adage, "use the right tool for the job", and when it come to speed at sea, nothing beats our 2018-20021 SEADOOs. So whatever your pleasure, we're got the toys to accommodate your interest. Our Primary Sailing yacht is PRIMA STELLA. A modernized vintage luxury sailing monohull, manufactured by Island Yachts in Costa Mesa in 1976. The Hull was designed by sailing legend Alan Gurney and redesigned in 2021 by Captain Mancini with exterior synthetic teak imported from Norway, an updated galley with glass teak bright works, modernized helm, state of the art underwater and exterior smart lighting displays, and modernized rigging designs. Prima Stella is a classic Islander 36 cruising / racing vessel at heart, capable for Bluewater sailing and built and rigged to circumnavigate around the world. With the displacement at 1500 gross tonnage, Prima Stella delivers stability in the sea with its fin keel and skeg rudder, while traveling up to a respectable 8 knots for its heavy displacement. The Islander 36 was an award winning design for its class and continues to be a choice of many avid cruising sailors. When you sail aboard Prima Stella you will surely enjoy and understand the luxury and classy feeling while under sail.

Image location & Film Production

Category: Image Location & Film Production

Producing a project? We have the perfect location for you! From a variety of locations including docks to shoot on, or a vessel to capture the ultimate sailing shot, Captain Mancini has the toys and locations to help bring your project to fruition! $350 image location fee We regularly work with local and international production companies seeking sailboats and seadoos for film, television and photoshoots. Captain Mancini is accredited on IMDB with credits including FYI network’s show “Arranged”, and many commercials and music videos produced by Born Ready Films, and American Aircraft Productions. He has also wrote and produced and award winning short film Mercy-Less. Captain Mancini attended Columbia Film school, where he studied screenwriting and producing. He has also appeared on NCIS, and the films, He's just not that in to you, and Yes Man. Captain Mancini continues his acting training of "The Method" at, Friends and Artists Studios, in Toluca Lake, CA.  

Santuario Coffee

Category: Image Location & Film Production

COMING SOON!

Captain Mancini Designs

Category: Yacht Bedding & Clothing Line

Coming Soon!

Corporate Housing

Category: Corporate Housing