Port GinestaSailing catamaran
TS 42 · 2016
6343 ft
From€2,700/ week
Catalonia Flotilla Charter
Flotilla charter in Catalonia: sail your own yacht in a led group on a set route, with live availability. Tell us your week and we answer the same day.
Yacht
How fixed is the route?
Pre-set, but flexible by ±1 day or ±1 anchorage if the fleet votes. The lead boat's job is to get you to a marina each evening with a berth waiting — that requires planning.
Do I have to do everything with the group?
No. Daily activities are optional. Some couples skip the group dinners; some boats peel off for half a day. As long as you reach the evening marina, you're free.
What if I haven't sailed for a couple of years?
Flotilla is the format. You'll have a refresher with the lead skipper on day 1, and the daily briefings cover anchoring + docking specific to the day's marina.
Can kids come?
Absolutely — flotillas are the most kid-friendly format. Other families in the fleet, evening activities, fleet rhythm (early starts, early dinners) suits them.
When do flotillas run?
June to mid-September in the Mediterranean. Saturday-to-Saturday. Calendar published 6 months ahead — 8-12 per season.
Two coastlines in one charter. North of the Golf de Roses the Costa Brava is rock — pine-topped headlands, water that turns from green to deep blue over 10m, coves you can only reach by boat. South of Blanes the land flattens into beach towns and then Barcelona, where you berth a ten-minute walk from the old city. Legs are short, mostly 10 to 25 nautical miles, so the pattern of the week is sail in the morning, anchor and swim after lunch, eat ashore. That suits crews who want the boat to be transport and shade rather than an endurance test. It suits distance sailors less: if you want 60-mile days you will spend the week going back and forth.
Sailing in company — the guided group experience
A flotilla is a small group of yachts sailing a set route together, led by a crew on a lead boat. You sail your own yacht, but never alone — a daily briefing, a hand into harbour and someone to call if anything's unclear.
It's the reassuring step up from a skippered week for newer skippers, and a sociable one: fixed departure dates, shared anchorages and a route the lead crew knows cold.