Leg 8/2026
26 June – 6 July: Cascais/Portugal – Porto Santo/Madeira, 450 nm
For the 3 days crossing to Portosanto/Madeira we have earmarked three times as many days so that we should be able to pick a fine weather window to cross the TSS off Lisbon and then head to Madeira.
There is often a stiff breeze blowing around the cape especially in the afternoons. So the plan is to leave an early morning on a day when strong N-winds are not predicted and then to quickly sail through the belt of north-winds in order to reach pleasant winds from behind all the way to Portosanto.
Having done the first stretch along Portugal, it’s mainly pleasant downwind sailing to Portosanto. Photo taken in 2021 on the way to Madeira.
Portosanto in sight after 3 days at sea! Photo taken in 2021 when we made landfall.
From Portosanto you can take a short 10 minutes flight or ferry to mainland Madeira and Funchal Airport. From there flying home is an easy thing with many flights going to and from Madeira from all over Europe.
Portosanto is really a fantastic island.
Drawing our logo on the harbour mole.
This is how it looks is 2024 (photo courtesy of Carol Wo, who passed by in August 2024 in her Hallberg-Rassy 340 on her way to the Caribbean. In other words: Time for a touch-up!!!!
Portosanto has one of the most beautiful and long beaches. And the best of it all: hardly any people!
The marina of Porto Santo. Carol told me that it has been extended and rebuilt after the storm in 2019. I can’t wait to see it in 2025 again!
Who would believe that Portosanto has one of the longest airports in the Atlantic!
It’s all vulcano!
The anchorage in the marina has now become a field of buoys while were were there in 2021. You can see all the missing pontoons which were taken in a storm in 2019 (or was it 2020?) but some of them have since been rebuilt, I saw when we passed by in 2025 the last time.
Price: EUR 3,995 per person including all food consumed onboard, harbour fees, diesel etc. Restaurants come extra, where we share the cost.