The Seafolk

For owners

Boat swap in Mallorca: sail other waters without chartering

Your boat sits on its mooring in Mallorca most of the year. Another owner, on another coast, has the same problem.

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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 Mallorca you have the Serra de Tramuntana coast and the rest of the Balearics. What you don't have is the Atlantic, the Bay of Biscay or the islands beyond the Strait. And owners sailing those waters don't have this sea on their doorstep.

One fact you can see from the water: UNESCO declared the Serra de Tramuntana a World Heritage Site, in the Cultural Landscape category, on 29 June 2011 [1]. It's the mountain range that closes the island's north-west coast. Whoever comes to sail your boat will see it from the bow; you can tell them when to look.

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

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

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.

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Br, Ignacio López, founder — The Seafolk

Source: Serra de Tramuntana, World Heritage