Barcelona ⟷ Mallorca Passage
The Island Passage · 7 or 14 Days · Monohull
Barcelona ⟷ Overnight Offshore Passage ⟷ Port de Sóller ⟷ Sa Calobra ⟷ Cala Deià ⟷ Port d’Andratx ⟷ Palma de Mallorca
Monohull · ASA 101+103+104
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Three Ways to Book
Week 1 (outbound)
Barcelona → Mallorca – Embark Barcelona Saturday, sail overnight to the Serra de Tramuntana, cruise the UNESCO coast, disembark Palma Friday. Students fly home from PMI.
Week 2 (return)
Mallorca → Barcelona – Fly direct into PMI, embark Palma Saturday, cruise the Tramuntana northbound, overnight offshore passage back to Barcelona, disembark Friday. Finish ASA certified in Barcelona with the city ahead.
Both weeks (14 days)
Round trip – Embark Barcelona Saturday, sail to Mallorca and back, disembark Barcelona on day 14. One continuous boat, one captain, two offshore passages, maximum sea time.
The Island Passage
Offshore miles, limestone cliffs, and Robert Graves’s Deià.
Every Catalan sailor dreams of the Mallorca crossing. Ninety nautical miles of open waterbetween Barcelona and the Serra de Tramuntana – the longest passage in our calendar,and the one that turns a sailor into a sailor. You leave Barcelona on an evening breeze, pass offshore in darkness, and watch the sun come up over the Mallorcan mountains the next morning.
For many students, this is the sail they remember for the rest of their lives.
Up to 2 Overnight Offshore Passages
Up to 14 Days on the Water
UNESCO Tramuntana Coast
Deià & Valldemossa Villages
Sa Calobra Anchorage
Dragonera Island
Port d’Andratx
The Tramuntana coast is a UNESCO World Heritage landscape – a chain of limestone peaks rising straight out of the sea, cliff after cliff, with pocket anchorages and old stone villages tucked into every gap. There is nowhere else like it in the Mediterranean.
Port de Sóller is the main landfall and provisioning port – a near-perfect horseshoe bay enclosed by the mountains, with the old wooden tram still running up to Sóller town for lunch under the orange trees. The town is famous for its orange groves (the Sóller valley has grown citrus for Mallorca since the Moors brought the trees from Al-Andalus) and the icecream at Fet a Sóller is some of the best in Spain – orange, lemon, or almond, each from fruit grown within a mile of the shop. This was a smugglers’ harbor for three centuries. Today it is the easiest port on the northwest coast.
Sa Calobra is the anchorage you’ll remember.
The Torrent de Pare is cuts down from the sierra and empties into a stone-walled cove where the cliffs rise two hundred meters straight out of the water. Swim ashore, walk through the natural tunnel into the gorge, and look up. Nothing in the Mediterranean looks like it.
Cala Deià sits below the village where Robert Graves lived and wrote for most of his life. Anchor in the cove, climb the goat path, lunch at Ca’s Patró March on the sea rocks (grilledfish, Mallorcan white wine, the sea twenty feet below your table) or in the old village square under the olive trees, and read the memorial to Graves in the little church cemetery. The village hasn’t changed much since he arrived in 1929.
The run between Deià and Palma passes Valldemossa, where Chopin and George Sand spent their famously miserable winter of 1838; Banyalbufar’s vineyard terraces built straight into the cliff; and the dramatic Dragonera channel, where the uninhabited island of Dragonera sits off Mallorca’s southwest tip.
Port d’Andratx tucks into its deep inlet – Mallorca’s prettiest harbor, perfect for an overnight.
Palma itself bookends the trip with La Seu cathedral rising ahead on arrival or disappearing behind on departure. The city rewards a day either side: Mercat de l’Olivar for breakfast (ensaïmada and strong coffee), tapas in the old town, Mallorcan sobrasada and pa amb oli for lunch, and dinner at any of the quay restaurants where the fish was off the morning boat.
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Week 1 Barcelona → Mallorca
Experience Recommended
Sample Itinerary
Day
Theme
Details
Day 1 (Sat)
Cast Off
Board Barcelona morning · Boat familiarization · Offshore safety · Provisioning · Depart Barcelona afternoon
Day 2 (Sun)
Offshore Passage
Overnight sail · Watchkeeping · Celestial navigation · Sunrise arrival Tramuntana coast · ~90 nm
Day 3 (Mon) ✓
ASA 101 Sign-Off
Arrive Port de Sóller · Written exam at the marina ·ASA 103 begins · Rest day aboard · Sóller village ashore
Day 4 (Tue)
Coastal Cruising
Sóller → Sa Calobra · ~12 nm · Anchoring drills · ASA 103 skills · Afternoon ashore in the Pareis gorge
Day 5 (Wed) ✓
ASA 103 Sign-Off
Sa Calobra → Cala Deià · ~8 nm · Exam at anchor ·ASA 104 begins · Deià village lunch
Day 6 (Thu)
Bareboat Skills
Deià → Port d’Andratx via Valldemossa, Banyalbufar, Dragonera · ~35 nm · ASA 104 skills · Med-mooring
Day 7 (Fri) ✓✓✓
Palma Arrival
Port d’Andratx → Palma · ~15 nm · ASA 104 exam · Docking exam at Marina Palma · All three certifications signed off · Disembark · PMI airport 15 min away
Week 2 Mallorca → Barcelona
For students joining in Mallorca, or continuing from Week 1
Sample Itinerary
Day
Theme
Details
Day 1 (Sat)
Cast Off
Embark Surus at Palma Marina · Boat familiarization · Provisioning · Depart to Port d’Andratx · ~15 nm · Overnight at marina
Day 2 (Sun)
Up the Tramuntana
Port d’Andratx → Dragonera → Banyalbufar → Cala Deià · ~35 nm · Points of sail · Tacking · Jibing
Day 3 (Mon) ✓
ASA 101 Sign-Off
Written exam at Deià · ASA 103 begins · Village lunch · Cala Deià → Sa Calobra · ~8 nm
Day 4 (Tue)
Coastal Cruising
Sa Calobra morning · Pareis gorge walk · Sa Calobra → Port de Sóller · ~12 nm · Anchoring drills · ASA 103 skills
Day 5 (Wed) ✓
ASA 103 Sign-Off
Rest day Sóller · Written exam at marina · ASA 104begins · Provisioning for offshore passage
Day 6 (Thu)
Offshore Passage
Depart Port de Sóller afternoon · Overnight offshore sail · Watchkeeping · Celestial navigation ·~90 nm
Day 7 (Fri) ✓✓✓
Home Port
Sunrise approach to Catalan coast · Arrive Barcelona morning · ASA 104 exam · Docking exam · All three certifications signed off · Disembark by afternoon
Round Trip 14 Days
Students who book both weeks get the full Balearic experience: an eighteen-hour overnight passage out from Barcelona (depart Saturday afternoon, arrive Mallorca Sunday morning), twelve days cruising Mallorca at a slower pace – the Tramuntana coast from Port de Sóller down to Port d’Andratx and back, time at anchor off Deià, Sa Calobra, and the Dragonera channel, and nights in the villages – then the eighteen-hour return passage to Barcelona (depart Thursday afternoon, arrive home Friday morning).
One continuous boat, one captain, no handover. ASA 101+103+104 signed off during the firstweek; the rest of the trip is cruising with your new credentials in hand.
The itinerary shown is our planned route and gives you a taste of the incredible destinations we aim to visit. Actual ports of call and the timing of the offshore passages are subject to change based on weather conditions, sea state, and marina availability.
The Mediterranean is a dynamic sailing environment and your instructor will always make routing decisions with your safety, comfort, and enjoyment as the priority. Flexibility is part of the adventure – and sometimes the unplanned stops turn out to be the most memorable.