Seabourn turns 40 in 2028, and it is marking the anniversary with 54 voyages across five ships — all on sale now.
The Ruby Collection ranges from seven-night Caribbean sailings to a 96-day run from the High Arctic to Antarctica.
Two voyages anchor it, and they are the ones worth knowing about.
120 days, 26,000 miles, 58 destinations
The Cape to Cape World Cruise leaves on 7 January 2028 aboard Seabourn Quest, covering more than 26,000 nautical miles and 58 destinations across 23 countries and five continents.
It opens with a Panama Canal transit — a deliberate echo of Seabourn’s first-ever sailing in 1988.
For the first time on a Seabourn world cruise, expedition-style landings are included rather than extra, led by an 18-person team, in Antarctica and the Chilean Fjords among other places.
A shorter 112-day version runs Miami to Lisbon.
Pole to Pole: 147 degrees of latitude
The more remarkable voyage is Seabourn Venture’s second Grand Expedition: Pole to Pole, departing 16 August 2028.
Ninety-six days and 20,500 nautical miles, from Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic down to Antarctica — 14 countries and territories, five days in Antarctica, three in South Georgia, three in the Falklands.
An 82-day version departs 30 August.
Going back to 1988
The Yachtsman Collection is the anniversary’s neatest idea: a return to the small harbours that the original Yachts of Seabourn were built to reach.
Seabourn Ovation runs seven- to 14-day Caribbean sailings between Sint Maarten and Barbados, and seven-day Mediterranean voyages across the Aegean, the Côte d’Azur, the Dalmatian coast, Sardinia and Corsica.
Bequia, an overnight at Portofino, time on Pátmos for the Monastery of St John — ports chosen precisely because larger vessels cannot get into them.
It is a quiet counter-argument to where the rest of the industry is heading. While other lines add cabins, Seabourn is selling the opposite.
New ports, and a festival
Seabourn Encore adds maiden calls at Taichung and Tainan in Taiwan, with one voyage timed to the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival after a visit to the mountain town of Shifen.
In Alaska, Encore adds maiden calls at Petersburg, Valdez and the Chiswell Islands, with an eight-day pre-cruise Denali programme.
The bit closest to home
Two maiden calls will interest British readers.
Seabourn’s expedition ships add Cape Clear Island off County Cork, bringing guests to the cliffs of Mizen Head at Ireland’s southwesterly tip.
And in the Faroes, a maiden call at Tvøroyri joins Tórshavn and a Zodiac landing at Klaksvík, on new itineraries linking Iceland and the British Isles.
Baltic and British Isles routes also return in 2028, alongside a round-trip Reykjavík expedition that gives six days to Svalbard with 199 guests aboard.
The bottom line
There is no Southampton departure here and no sterling pricing. This is a Seattle announcement aimed at a global luxury market, and British passengers will be flying to join.
What it is, though, is a clear statement of where the small-ship end of the industry is going. Seabourn’s answer to bigger ships is not to build bigger ones. It is Ellesmere Island, Tvøroyri, and a harbour in Bequia.
We reported the line’s first fleet-wide savings event three days ago. This is the other half of the same strategy: discount the near term, sell the far horizon at full price.
Every voyage in the Ruby Collection is open for booking now.
