Xico Castelló presents “Parlem de falutxos, balandres i pailebots”

cartell 2021 xico castelloThursday 3 June, Formentera will welcome Xico Castelló Ribas for an 8.00pm presentation of Parlem de falutxos, balandres i pailebots–Un petit repàs d’una època no massa llunyana (Feluccas, sloops and sailboats–A short survey of a scarcely distant past; Mediterrànea). The presentation will be moderated by local heritage chief Raquel Guasch and attended by the author, publisher Miquel Costa and Marcos Marí, from Trasmapi. The event will be held at the restaurant La Bocana in the Port of La Savina.

In Parlem de falutxos..., Xico Castelló, a skipper for the Merchant Navy and captain of high-speed vessels on the Eivissa-Formentera line, offers a partial survey of the maritime history of the Pine Islands, including brief descriptions and personal drawings of varying types of boats that sailed the waters of Eivissa and Formentera from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

27 May 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera