Costa Smeralda & La Maddalena

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. — Rumi

It's six days of emerald water.

Six days between Sardinia's most refined coastline and some of the most protected water in the Mediterranean.

Granite and emerald. That's what this coast is made of. Pink rock shaped by wind, water so clear it barely looks like water, and islands that feel like they were placed there by someone who understood beauty but didn't care about being noticed.

Six days aboard Vantanera, moving between Porto Cervo's polished edges and La Maddalena's untouched archipelago, with a crossing to Bonifacio that changes the country but not the feeling. This is short-range cruising at its finest — unhurried, concentrated, and shaped entirely around you.

Olbia → Porto Cervo

DAY 01

You board in Olbia. Within an hour, the airport, car parks and real world will be behind you. The short sail north to Porto Cervo gives you just enough time to feel the boat settle into the water and to adjust to a different rhythm. You can spend the evening ashore in the harbour or on deck with a glass of Vermentino, with the lights of the marina below you. There's no rush. After all, you've only just arrived.

Costa Smeralda

Day 02

A day for the coastline. Vantanera moves along the Costa Smeralda's bays — each one a slightly different shade of impossible. Swim off the boat. Lunch ashore or on deck. Take the helm or don't. The crew knows where to go and when to stop, but the day belongs to you. This stretch of Sardinia was built for exactly this kind of slow, aimless perfection.

La Maddalena

Day 03

North into the archipelago. Everything changes. The glamour fades and what's left is just nature — granite, juniper, water that shifts from turquoise to deep blue within a few metres. Anchor in Cala Coticcio, a cove the locals call Tahiti. Sixteen metres of white sand between pink rocks, a natural pool so sheltered it feels private even when it isn't. From a yacht, you see it the way it's meant to be seen — from the water, without the hike.

Budelli & Spargi

Day 04

Deeper into the archipelago. Budelli with its famous pink sand, protected and visible only from the water. Spargi with its wild coastline and coves that don't have names because they've never needed them. This is swimming, snorkelling, slow-cruising territory. The kind of day where the biggest decision is whether to jump in before or after lunch.

Bonifacio

Day 05

The crossing to Corsica. Twelve kilometres of open strait, and then Bonifacio appears — a medieval fortress town balanced on white limestone cliffs sixty metres above the water. The harbour entrance is a narrow fjord carved into the rock, dramatic enough to make everyone on board reach for a camera. Lunch in the old town. Walk the citadel walls. Dinner on the quay with the cliffs lit above you. A different country, a different energy — and yet you never left the boat.

Capo Figari / Tavolara → Olbia

Day 06

The return south. A final morning swim at Capo Figari or in the shadow of Tavolara — a limestone slab rising straight from the sea like something from another geological era. Then back to Olbia, where real life is waiting. Though by now, you may have a different definition of what real life means.