The Costa Brava earned its name in 1908 from a Catalan journalist who needed a phrase for a coastline too rugged to farm. Ferran Agulló's "wild coast" described exactly the geology that today makes lloret de mar catamaran sailing cruise with bbq and drinks tours worth taking: a granite massif, the Serralada Litoral, collapsing directly into the Mediterranean in a sequence of coves too steep to reach on foot. Lloret de Mar sat on that coast for centuries as a shipbuilding town rather than a resort. Its yards launched brigantines and schooners for the Cuba and Puerto Rico trade, and the fortunes that returned built the indianos villas and the cemetery of modernista mausoleums still standing above the town. The seafront promenade at Passeig Agustí Font, 2, 17310 Lloret de Mar, Girona, Spain, marks roughly where those hulls once entered the water. Sailing remains the town's oldest industry, reorganised. What a catamaran changes is access. A monohull draws too much water for the shallow granite shelves off Cala Banys, Sa Boadella and Santa Cristina; a twin-hulled vessel with a metre or less of draught can anchor inside them. That single engineering fact explains the entire modern fleet working this stretch of the Girona coast, from Blanes north to Tossa de Mar with its twelfth-century Vila Vella walls — the only fortified medieval town surviving on the Catalan littoral. The Tossa run remains the classic passage, still sailed today as a ferry round trip. The barbecue aboard is a Catalan borrowing rather than an invention. Costa Brava fishing crews cooked over coals on deck long before tourism, and the graellada — grilled meat, sausage, vegetables, bread rubbed with tomato — travelled directly from shore kitchens onto charter decks. Drinks follow the same logic: local vermouth, cava from the Penedès inland, sangria for the crossing back. Standard shared rates for a lloret de mar catamaran sailing cruise with bbq and drinks tour begin at 58 EUR per person, covering barbecue, drinks and onboard activities. The fleet's variety reflects demand rather than tradition. Some vessels run as party cruises with music decks and sunset departures; others sail quietly, motoring only where the tramuntana wind fails. Marine posidonia meadows below the anchorages are protected, which restricts where crews may drop anchor and keeps the water in these coves clear enough to see the seabed at eight metres. That protection, formalised in recent decades, is the reason the coastline still reads as Agulló described it.