Marina Vela hosts the new edition of Stella Oceani Med

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The sailboats navigate without GPS, with a sextant, chart, almanac and clock, and the winner is not the fastest, but the most accurate sailboat in calculating its geographical position with a sextant.

From October 30 to November 8, the new edition of the Stella Oceani Cruise, led by the captain, YouTuber and creator of Beyond the Seas, Paula Gonzalvo, and which hosts Marina Vela Barcelona.

The Travesía, with more than 500 miles, will surround the Balearic Islands, and its objective give visibility to cruising sail, to the learning and practice of knowing how to position oneself at sea without any reference to land, only with the stars and the sextant.

Since the appearance of GPS, traditional navigation has been relegated to the background to the point of being forgotten, which is why Stella Oceani is committed to encouraging the use of traditional navigation methods.

The most accurate wins, not the fastest
The most accurate sailboat in calculating its geographical position with a sextant will win, placing itself on the map and determining the course, without using GPS. There will be three daily observations that will be the basis for the scoring, and whoever gets the most points will be the winner.

The crossing is an innovative concept promoted by Paula Gonzalvo and that brings together sailors and crews of all levels, and with a large female participation, around 25%, since many of the crews are mixed.

Sailing with the stars through the Mediterranean Sea 
11 sailboats with an average of 6 crew members per sailboat, will bring together 70 people on a journey that will cover more than 500 miles, for 10 days, leaving from Marina Vela in Barcelona, ​​on October 30, skirting the Balearic Islands and stopping in Ibiza, to Return again to Marina Vela, on November 8.

Private, rented or professional sailboats can register for the voyage, and a crew pool is enabled on the website that serves to connect crew members who do not have sailboats with those boats that need to complete their crew.

Paula, Allende de los Mares
Paula Gonzalvo, the director of the trip, is a captain, YouTuber and creator of Beyond the seas, the reference platform in Spanish about life on board.

He had never sailed and at the end of 2014 he decided to start a long trip around the world, starting with a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to reach America. This experience marked her so much that since then she has not stopped boarding to learn to sail. She has now sailed 30.000 miles: Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, Bay of Biscay, English Channel and 3 crossings of the Atlantic.

The Allende de los Mares blog was created to show the accessible, habitable and multifunctional sailboat, promote the female presence in the nautical world and inspire and motivate the possibility of fulfilling a dream, a different lifestyle.

Marina Vela Barcelona

Located in a privileged area, next to the W Hotel and just a few minutes from the center of Barcelona, ​​it has 130 moorings in the sea and a pioneering Dry Marina in Europe, as it is robotic, covered and houses 222 boats that can be in the water, in less than six minutes.

With 100% national capital, and under the management of the Mayol group, this ambitious Marina has always had as its main objective to revitalize the environment of the northern mouth of the Port of Barcelona and to be open to the people of Barcelona, ​​offering not only exclusive services for the vessels that establish their base in the Navy. But rather, a unique area where you can enjoy good restaurants, leisure and shops, next to the sea.

Learn more
https://stellaoceani.com
Itinerary: https://stellaoceani.com/itinerario
Video about this year's journey: https://youtu.be/Uus9HCNzGnY