Sailing Swans for 50 Years - Episode 17

The final epsiode of sailing Swans for 50 years, covers the year 2024 and first half of 2025, So actually 51 years. 2024 started in late April with the delivery cruise of a Swan 55 from Mallorca to Badalona. May and June followed with three delivery sails from the yard in Jakobstad, starting with a Swan 48 to Amsterdam, then a Swan 55 to Copenhagen and a Swan 78 to Stockholm. Back in Mallorca we sailed a family cruise on the Swan 55 between Mallorca and Ibiza, followed by a VAT-run to Gibraltar and back to Palma. In September we sailed the same Swan 55 from Palma to Porto Cervo and participated in Swan Cup 2025, before returning to Palma. In November the same Swan 55 was the delivered from Palma to Badalona for repairs. 2025 started in March with the delivery of a Swan 82 from Palma to Badalona and in early May the same yacht from Port Adriano (Mallorca) to Badalona. Immediately afterwards was then the transatlantic sail on an old Swan 51, from Antigua via St Maarten, Horta and Brest to Cherbourg. A total of almost 9100 nautical miles added to logged distance on Swans - adding up to more than 202,500 nautical miles sailed on Swans during the last 51 years.