Boat swap in Tenerife: sail other coasts 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 Tenerife you have the Atlantic and the neighbouring islands. What you don't have is the Mediterranean or the Bay of Biscay coast. And owners sailing those coasts don't have a volcano over the bow.

One fact you can see from the water: Mount Teide stands at 3,715 metres above sea level and is the highest point in Spain [1]. Someone arriving in Tenerife by boat for the first time sees it long before the coast. In a swap, your host can tell you from where.

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 membership is free until 31 Dec 2026. A card is registered and nothing is charged before then; from 1 Jan 2027, €90 a year for life (the general fee will be €180). 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: Wikipedia, Tenerife