Mallorca Boat Show

[Alistairr]

My wife and i have booked a last minute break to Cala D'Or, going out on Saturday for a week.

Are there any good marina to visit and am i right in saying the Palma International boat show is still on on Sunday?

Are there any fellow forumites out there worth looking up, or any wishing to invite me along for a beer?? I would feel quite at home with a beer in one hand and a polishing cloth in the other!!

Cheers...

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Well, you could start by going to Port Fairline at Cala d'Or. There are plenty of boats to look at there but if you want to look at where the real money is go to Puerto Portals which is a few miles west of Palma
Palma itself has a big harbour with loads of boats and there are marinas and harbours dotted all over the coastline
Sorry cant offer you a beer as I've just moved my boat from Cala d'Or to France a couple of weeks ago

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[sailbadthesinner]

on the other side of the bay to porto portals is cala portals.
restaraunt in the bay well worth a trip if you can blag a boat.
lovely fish and nice cold champers.

there is a nice restaraunt i have been to in cala d'or. it is on other side to the princess sand sunseeker offices. near the entrance end. it has lightohouses on the menus i think nice big cotton awnings outside sorry cannot remember more.

the fish restaraunt on the harbour ponotoon at Pollensa is fine too.

good restaraunts in portals marina too.my advice is to go with instinct and you should not be wrong.


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[Alistairr]

Thanks guys..

Is it worth me trying to see if icould do my ICC or powerboat level 2 training while i'm out there?

Cheers.....


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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Try Mallorca Sea School on

http://www.mallorca-sea-school-and-charters.com/

Speak to Geoff Churchill

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: orrrrr

or you could pm our very own suncoast

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Re: orrrrr

I think he's on the mainland not Mallorca, isnt he, otherwise I would have suggested him? Somewhere near Alicante?

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[Alistairr]

Re: orrrrr

I did think about Suncoast, But i also thought he was on the mainland.

I am happy to be proved wrong though!!

Cheers...



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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: orrrrr

aay
but it seemed unfair not to give him a mention
also he may travel???? ( only if you pay the fuel tho)

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[Alistairr]

Re: orrrrr

WELL I NEVER!!!!!

I have just printed off these thread to show SWMBO, And now i know why your picture doesn't work, Deleted User. I think they may have sencored it.

NICE from this angle (I think!) Big but nice!!!!

Cheers....



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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Re: orrrrr

I cant imagine what you're talking about. I presume you're referring to the picture of my wife. Its only there to encourage her interest in boating

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[coliholic]

I was there last weekend......

.....and I reckon it's worth going to. Small show only about 40 or so boats there but predominantly our sort of proper boats with engines, only a few raggies. Fairline, Sealine, Cranchi, Astondoa, Rodman, Sunseeker and Leopard - yes the infamous Leopard, all have stands there though some were exhibiting brokerage boats. A few trade stands, but not at all like Earls Court or Southampton, no-one was really selling cheap chandlery. You can comfortably do it in half a day. All very friendly and OK to go on the boats, even the Leopard 23 Open there, though to be honest I did do a bit of name dropping to get on it.

Presumably you'll drive there from Cala D'Or? If so park in the port area just behind the boat show, I forget the name of the road but it's the only one that's on the sea side of the Paseo Maritimo. Yellow lines are OK to park on, I'm told they don't give parking tickets. Then as you walk towards the entrance go into the restaurant on the left corner for a coffee first and then through the restaurant and out the other side into the Boat Show. Or maybe just stroll through without forking out for a coffee if you're a really tight git.There, that's €5 saved already on the entrance fee.

I tried to charter a boat for a day earlier in the week, first with Vitesse, but they didn't have anything available under 60ft, and then with Mallorca Sea School, both are in Puerto Portals. Vitesse were really helpful, 'phoned round several other marina's for me but couldn't find anything available (Easter week see), but MSS really couldn't be bothered. I've already got an ICC and when I wandered into their offices just on the offchance at 7:30 pm Thursday enquiring as to if I could rent for Friday, they said they had a boat available, Camague 44 I think, but since it would take a couple of hours to check me out on it on Friday morning, best to leave it to Saturday. Couldn't see the logic of that one. I explained that I was going to the Boat Show Saturday,but at the point the woman there seemed to find her computer much more interesting than taking €470 off me.

Met a couple of guys off the White Shark Boats stand in the bar in our hotel on Saturday night and I reckon they'll rent a boat to you. Offered me one of their Boston Whaler types for less than 200 for the day, not sure if it was £ or €'s, but by then I didn't have a day spare, so didn't push it any further. If you want to see about renting a boat, have a word with Bruce Maltwood, he'll be at their stand at the boat show till Sunday or his sidekick, short chubby chap who's name escapes me. They've just opened an office in the industrial park at Santa Ponsa, just the other side of Peurto Portals (about 15 minute drive from the boat show) and are keen for any sort of business. I can let you have their phone no if you need it.

BTW Santa Ponsa port's very pretty too and worth a trip. Your side of the island? Well there's quite a few pretty little ports and harbours dotted about.

I reckon you'll have a good time and will spend half the week trying to make up your mind if you want to move your boat there. "Well dear, the saving on the cost of moorings would be this, and the cheap Easyjet flight would only cost that and if we come down every 3 weeks it'd only come out to this and we'll use it much more 'cos the season's longer and ........ "

Oh yes, I can see it all clearly.


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[Alistairr]

Re: I was there last weekend......

Thanks for that coliholic,

It all sounds very good, Espiecally the last bit...Not sure my boat is big enough for the Med though?
Maybe need to wait a few years till i get something bigger, Including the pay packet!!!

Cheers....

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