It's not just a holiday.

It is a week in which the weather changes pace and the sea becomes home.

It starts from the Marina of Cala dei Sardi, in Portisco, 20 minutes north of Olbia. The moorings are cast off and, slowly, everything else is left ashore. In front, only blue water and good wind.

The course is never rigid. You decide every day based on the weather, always choosing the most beautiful side of the sea: the one with the right wind, the most protected roadstead, the most transparent water.

The first dives in Costa Smeralda

We skirt the Costa Smeralda, between coves carved into the rock and seabeds that look like natural pools. We anchor in front of Cala di Volpe or the Spiaggia del Principe, and the first swim officially starts the week. Sun on the skin, salt in the hair, aperitif in the cockpit while the sky turns orange.

In the heart of the archipelago

Then you enter the wildest and most surprising part of the Maddalena Archipelago.

The unreal shades of Budelli, the shallow waters of Santa Maria, the rocks shaped by the wind, the nights at anchor under a sky full of stars. One evening you can go ashore in La Maddalena for a walk through alleys and ice cream overlooking the port. The other evenings you stay on board, with silence enveloping everything.

The Strait and Corsica

Sailing across the Strait of Bonifacio is one of those moments that will remain etched in your mind. The wind accelerates, the sea changes color, the horizon opens up.

Then come the white cliffs of Bonifacio, the perfect bays of Rondinara and Santa Giulia, the shallow and very clear water of Isola Piana.

Here time dilates. You swim without looking at the clock. We laugh. We remain silent to watch the sunset.

Return with the wind in your sails

On the way back, perhaps a stop in Porto Pollo, a sailor's paradise, and a last swim in the rocks of Spargi. Then we return to Olbia with that feeling that only the sea can give: good tiredness, salty skin, light head.

What's this week really like?

Every week is different. But if you love the real sea, the one made up of sailing, nature and freedom, you will find it here.