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Spain
Marina Vela Barcelona Spain
Marina Vela a unique location by the sea
Located only a few minutes from the Barcelona city centre, Marina Vela Barcelona Spain has a unique and privileged location by the sea. The Marina provides 130 moorings for boats and yachts with a length from 12 to 90 meters. Residents enjoy an excellent gastronomic, leisure and commercial experience. The Marina is surrounded by top-quality facilities such as the Hotel W Barcelona, sports centres and services focusing on pleasure boating. She is next to Barcelona’s most popular sailing areas, such as the Costa Brava, Balearic Islands and Costa Azul. Barcelona city centre waterfront has a 24-hour security service, and absolute privacy is afforded to clients in exclusive access areas.
W Barcelona Hotel
Designed by the world-class architect Ricardo Bofill, W Barcelona opened its doors in 2009. The 5-star Marriott Group hotel is also known locally as the Hotel Vela (Sail Hotel); it resembles the looks of Burj Al Arab in Dubai, UAE. Located at the beachfront along the famous Barceloneta boardwalk, the hotel’s 473 luxury guestrooms & suites boast panoramic views over this Mediterranean and city.
WIRED Business Center, located inside the hotel, offers exceptional meeting facilities, including secretarial and technical support for every function.
The five-star hotel offers a bar
on the rooftop, a spa and fitness centre, indoor and outdoor pools, terraces, beaches, restaurants, dance rooms, and other facilities grouped under a platform of terraces. The hotel restaurant is led by the Michelin-starred chef Carles Abellán.
Combining local and international specialities with the best views of Barcelona and the Mediterranean Sea, The W Hotel guarantees a spectacular experience.
Barcelona Nautic Center
Marina Vela Barcelona Spain offers you its private shipyard, Barcelona Nautic Center. The yard, once Northwind Yacht Manufacturers, is just 50 meters from the port entrance. Northwind Boat Builders had an excellent reputation for building Globetrotting Yachts of all sizes.
This is a very secure Marina, complimenting the services available. It specialises in repairing and refitting motor and sailing boats and provides its clients with a comprehensive range of services. The dry dock has a travel lift of 160 tons, a dry ground area of 14,000 m2 and a 600 m2 warehouse for indoor works. In addition, it offers a 70-meter pier for works afloat and the best specialists to attend to all the maintenance and repair needs of the boats. By special arrangement, boats starting from 30 meters, moored in Marina Vela, can fill their tanks through a new refuelling system directly at the berth.
Marina Vela Barcelona Spain gastronomic services
Many companies from the maritime sector have installed their headquarters in Marina Vela. Marina’s gastronomic services are designed to enjoy your evenings with friends and family with sea views. Three different environments are available: the Velissima, the Camping Mar and the Port Vela. Businesses and brands that you will find in Marina Vela include the BCN Marine Store. Brands such as Sealine, EVO Yachts or the oldest and most prestigious sailing company globally, Ratsey & Lapthorn,are also present in the Marina.
Please talk to us if you are considering selling a Motor Boat or Yacht. We work on a no-sale no, fee basis. So if we do not sell your boat, you decide you will not pay us anything. We are proud of the Testimonials page; they are genuine comments from boat buyers and sellers. Our Yacht Broker commission charges are the lowest in Spain because we are part of a large group of Profesional Brokers. We buy our marketing in bulk and get great deals on the website marketing space that we can pass on to you (the seller) by reducing commission charges. Visit our boats for sale page. You will find we have Boats for sale in all price ranges.
A modern-quality autopilot is worth its weight in gold (as they say). If you are sailing short-handed, then it is almost essential on a reasonable-size fin keel yacht. I can argue an exception if you sail a long-keel yacht. It is possible to set sails, add a little weather helm and keep on trucking(as they say). Locking the helm will require navigational input over time, but it’s great fun!
I selected reverse when sailing for years to save wear and tear on my yacht gearbox. They said that the components inside the gearbox are fixed and wearing (sounds reasonable) because the prop stops spinning. They also say that a fixed propellor creates less drag than a free-spinning prop (no idea about that). Then I met some people who sailed the Atlantic having to replace a gearbox on a reasonably modern yacht. Selecting reverse to lock the propellor over long periods puts a strain on the gearbox clutch that can cause It to wear out (wow, I never knew that). The solution, if you are concerned, is a folding propellor. It’s a lovely thing to have, and a buyer for your yacht will be happy you invested money in one.
Perhaps the Dyson fan will work well in smaller boats, but Air conditioning with a reverse cycle heat setting will transform the pleasure of sailing when you can hook up to shore supply. Lots of Mediterranean Marinas do not charge for electricity. They see it as part of a package deal. So from the moment you arrive until you depart, you can keep the yacht chilled to a perfect temperature if you are in a marina. Just like heating, Air conditioning will transform your boating experience.
Before you buy a yacht, you must know that ff you plan to spend a lot of time at anchor and are spicing up a new 15-metre-plus yacht, then a factory fit generator might be on your list of extras. It only made my list because I wanted to comment on the difference between fitting a low-cost aftersales unit and a proper factory-integrated unit. A Lot of research is needed if you are going down the generator installation route. In my experience, few companies can save money on a factory-installed unit.
Clients often ask me about how quickly a yacht might take to sell. This is a very sensible question but rather complex to answer. However, I can first answer by comparing yachts against powerboats.
Let me explain the thinking behind the statement above. For example, let’s take the Hamble in the UK. This is a place where buyers can find every type of boat. However, if I was interested in buying a racing yacht, the Hamble in England might be a good starting point to investigate racing yachts. The Hamble is the centre of the UK Marine industry and where many companies support sailing as a sport. On the other hand, if I was looking to purchase a superyacht, I might contact Yach Brokers along the southern French coast in or around Monaco.
We hadn’t been open for business long in Spain when an enquiry came in from North America. I was fascinated by a young Canadian couple’s mindset. They inquired about a 15-metre sailing yacht we had just put for sale on brokerage in Barcelona. They planned to fly to Barcelona (they said it looked like an easy place to get to with lots of boats). They would buy a one-way ticket and sail the yacht back to Canada after first learning to sail in the Mediterranean, where sailing was easy. Wow, the logic was astonishing. Look at the Globe and the Mediterainina was nothing more than a big lake. Plenty of places to visit. Perhaps they would spend a summer in Europe before crossing the ocean. Put that way, It sounds fantastic!
We have a beautiful 
brokerage. Generally, yacht values have increased during the last six months. This is not the case for vessels that have not been maintained. Buyers want to see service history more than anything, so if you’re asking for the top-price boat, please ensure maintenance is up to date, and then you stand a good chance of selling.
Many years ago, we took a beautiful Jeanneau 43 DS Yacht in exchange for a new Jeanneau 47 Ds. The 43 was in Palma Majorca, Spain. Part of the deal being we collected the PX and shipped it back to the base in North Wales. The deal was done, so we flew to Mallorca to collect the yacht. We sailed her back to Northern Spain, where she was collected by truck and delivered to the UK.
the fault more quickly was leaving the marina. It was impossible not to motor against a strong incoming tide until fifteen minutes after leaving the berth. One might motor for half an hour on a bad day until sufficient water was under the keel, allowing the engine to be extinguished. My point is the engine was always running, so it was difficult to isolate the problem. The strange thing was that when the yacht sat for extended periods, the bilge stayed bone dry.
little, but I had to find the cause. Another conversation with the old owner confirmed my suspicions that this problem had been around since the yacht was built. I had paperwork evidence that the flexy exhaust system had been changed under warranty. This had not resolved the issue.
silencer is not visible without removing even more floor sections, and what a job that was! Not convinced it was leaking, eventually, we decided to remove it to examine the underside of the engine. It’s not an easy job to get it out, but finally, out she came. Absolutely nothing to see!
Now we get to the point of telling you this story. As it happens, the mystery was not confined to our yacht. I helped another dealer who was having a nightmare with a client. The same sort of problem, a tiny leak, but not when the yacht sat idle, so it was tough to diagnose the problem.