| Sitting outside Puerto Portals, Mallorca
The fifth most expensive marina in the world, apparently, Puerto Portals in the bay of Palma, Mallorca, is visited by a great many mega sailing yachts - from our humble anchorage we have watched too many to count, coming and going. It's impossible to be jealous though. Our 72' schooner may be old and battered but it only takes the two of us to sail her anywhere we want to go. Counting crew on the visitors, there are rarely less than five... imagine the cost of keeping all those people just so you can get from A to B! Imagine the lack of privacy - with the exception of the really gigantic yachts, the presence of crew must be impossible to ignore.
Some of those vessels are so costly and immaculate that you'd be afraid to sit on any of the seating in case you crumpled the cushions - not my idea of an asset to be enjoyed. Inside the marina there are huge yachts that never go out or, if they do, they don't go more than a couple of miles to drop the anchor for the day, mostly scurrying back in before it gets dark!
This is probably anarchy, but I'd bet most people with a small yacht, whether sail or motor, have a lot more fun with their vessels than most of the owners of these huge showpieces...
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