We arrive at Palma, Majorca to find a dingy in our spot.
We finally entered the port to see the Russian super yacht simply named “A” in our spot. This yacht looks like a submarine and the sort of yacht a Bond villain should have. At $400 million the yacht was built for Russian oligarch, Andrey Melichenko and reputedly houses 42 crew, 3 Monets and a helicopter.
Tough life.
..maybe we’d got muddled with the berth numbers.

Hello? We are here. Did you remember our reservation?

Palma, Majorca (Mallorca) is a huge harbor.
It houses about 12 marinas – all huge. We had been told to go straight to the arrival dock and wait there.
It was good job we arrived in the light because the marina we were destined for was pretty jam packed and the arrival dock was being used by two very large yachts moored with anchor lines from their centre beam pulling them away from the dock. The only free place we could see was the petrol station next to it. Marina staff don’t like you mooring at the fuel dock normally.
We stopped at the petrol station. Two more boats arrived within minutes of us too.

The staff were very helpful but clearly had no idea what to do with us! They saying “wait a minute” and rechecking our dimensions. Always a worry.

We also knew a storm would be hitting the island in less than 24 hours. Fingers crossed they had not messed up our reservation.

After 10 minutes (maybe 100 minutes) we were given instructions where to moor.
Relief! (Just another adrenalin spike.)
John made a great ‘stern too’ moor. We are really getting used to these now but regardless of that this Mediterranean mooring is still a pain.  We ended up with ‘not a bad spot’ - for what is effectively a car park for boats.
Also, we were really sheltered from the forecast winds.

This marina (and our pontoon in particular) tends to be the ‘centre’ for active cruising sailboats. We feel quite small in comparison with the 80 – 120 feet long sailboats lining the pontoon each staffed with 2 or 3 crew. The pontoon is so large that vehicles servicing the boats drive up and down it.

We have been looking forward to exploring Majorca.
This’ll be fun!