YCC Cruise Report 2013

YCC Cruise Report 2013

The destination of our YCC Cruisethis year was Mallorca

Saturday, 7th September

• 5 of us took the flight from Geneva to Palma.• The 6th person, Dennis was already in Palma,

waiting for us.• A reserved minibus brought us to Porto Colom

were we took over.• the Alcor, our chartered 2 years old Sun

Odyssey 44i.

Sunday, 8th September

• We discovered some problems with the anchor winch

• We decided to leave Porto Colom for the day, make some anchor maneuvers by hand in one of these nice bays...

• ... but also swim and snorkel a bit ! • We came back to Porto Colom in the evening, to

get the electrical winch repaired next Monday morning.

Monday, 9th September

• Early at 8 o’clock, 2 specialists came to solve the winch problem

• 15 minutes later we were ready to quit Porto Colom again, with destination Cabrera, a protected island, a few miles south east of Mallorca.

Tuesday, 10th September

• After a quite night, attached to a buoy, which was reserved for us the day before, we left Cabrera with direction NNE.

• We sailed along the east cost of Mallorca just as it became time to find shelter for the night.

• We decided to spend the night at Porto Christo where would have the possibility to find a restaurant for a good Paela.

Wednesday, 11th September

• After breakfast in the morning, we left Porto Christo at about 10:00 with destination Alcudia.

• As we arrived at the open water, a strong mistral hit us with 2 meter high waves and a wind of 5 to 6 Bf.

• Some of us had to fight with seasickness but as we arrived in the marina of Alcudia, everybody was fine again.

Thursday, 12th September

• After breakfast with scrambled eggs, English Style, made by Dennis, we left Alcudia in the late morning to begin our way back homewards.

• We had 2 days to be back to our final destination and we decided to make a maximum of miles this day and be relaxed the next and last day.

• This evening we found a good, wind protected place for the night.

• After anchor maneuver and anchor schluck, Dan tried to provide us a sea food dinner.

Friday, 13th September

• The first few hours we had no wind and we were obliged to put the motor on.

• This was not very exiting. But few of us found a way to make it exiting.

Friday, 13th September

• At lunch time we stopped in a small bay, a very nice place for swimming and relaxing.

• But the time advanced and we had to finish the last 10 miles back to Porto Colom where we arrived at time.

THANKS !

• We had a nice week , a lot of fun, 6 different nationalities...

• ...never a problem and always a very good atmosphere.

• I would like to say thank you to our crew member for this sailing week

• It would be a great pleasure to sail again with them.