Boat swap in Ibiza and Formentera: sail other waters without chartering

The Seafolk is a club of owners who swap boats for a few days: you sail theirs, they sail yours. It isn't a rental and no money passes from one to the other.

What you get

From Ibiza or Formentera you have the Pitiusas and the rest of the Balearics. What you don't have is the Atlantic or the Bay of Biscay. And owners sailing those coasts don't have posidonia meadows under the keel.

One fact that changes how you sail here: the Ses Salines Natural Park of Ibiza and Formentera covers the sea between the two islands, and inside it you may anchor only on sand; not over posidonia, and not in no-anchoring zones [1]. Ibiza's posidonia meadows were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999 [1][2]. If someone sails your boat, give them this briefing before they cast off: the seabed will thank you, and so will the rules.

If your boat is in Ibiza, there's also the port page: boat swap in Ibiza.

How it works

1. Sign up and list your boat.
2. When someone sails yours, you earn Knots. Knots are the club's internal credits; you earn them by lending your boat and spend them sailing someone else's.
3. With your Knots you pick a boat and dates, and propose the swap to the owner.
4. If they agree, you swap.

Knots can't be bought or sold. That's what keeps this a swap between owners and not a charter.

Where the club really stands

• It's new: 28 members and 3 boats. Join now and you're among the first.
• Founding place free until 31 Dec 2026. A card is registered and nothing is charged before then; from 1 Jan 2027, €90 a year for life. Founding places are capped at 1,000 boats.
• No insurance today. There is no policy in force and no signed agreement. Open: staying aboard at the dock, without sailing, or sailing with a professional skipper. Bareboat (sailing it yourself) is closed.
• It's for people who already own a boat: with no boat in the network there is nothing to swap.

With so few boats, I won't promise there will be a free one on the coast you want tomorrow. I will promise that the more owners join early, the sooner there will be something to choose from.

Join the club

Br, Ignacio López, founder — The Seafolk

Source: Govern de les Illes Balears, Ses Salines Natural Park · Illes Balears Travel, Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture