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Mediterranean · June to September
Sardinia & the Costa Smeralda
Porto Cervo, Cala di Volpe and the Maddalena archipelago. The Costa Smeralda was built for this fleet in the 1960s and still holds the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup.
38 places on the chart: 7 harbour towns and ports, 1 marina or yard, 16 islands, 6 anchorages and bays and 8 beaches.
Open Sardinia & the Costa Smeralda on the chart
Why the fleet comes here
- Alghero
- A Catalan-speaking harbour town on the north-west coast
- Olbia
- The airport and the port through which the Costa Smeralda season arrives
- Porto Cervo
- Marina di Porto Cervo and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda; the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is sailed off it every September
- Tavolara
- A limestone slab off Olbia with an anchorage in its lee
- Palau
- The mainland port for the Maddalena archipelago
- Caprera
- Joined to La Maddalena by a causeway, with anchorages on every side
- Villasimius
- The marina at the south-east corner, and the Serpentara anchorages
- La Maddalena
- The archipelago national park, and the best cruising ground in the western Mediterranean
- Budelli
- The Spiaggia Rosa — the pink beach, now closed to landing and anchored off
- Cala Goloritzé
- A pinnacle and a beach in the Gulf of Orosei, reachable only by sea or on foot
- Spargi
- Cala Corsara, the most used day anchorage in the Maddalena
- Cala Luna
- Caves at the back of the beach, in the Gulf of Orosei
- Cala di Volpe
- The anchorage off the Hotel Cala di Volpe, and the deepest concentration of large yachts in Sardinia
Every place in Sardinia & the Costa Smeralda