Sailing around the islands off Croatia
Flying into Split airport, the second city of Croatia, the heat is a welcome boost from the cool British weather. We have booked a week sailing along the Dalmatian coast between the islands. From Split we travel along the coast road heading south towards Dubrovnik, the mountains are spectacular as they tower above us on one side and the blue sea is on the other. After about an hour we arrive at the resort of Baska Voda. This is where we board our yacht. Once all the instructions and stores were aboard, we set sail south west to the island of Brac and arrive in the sheltered bay of Sumartin. This was a nice short sail just long enough for us to get familar with the boat.
From here there followed 6 days of light winds which were ideal for sailing and sun bathing. Stopping at Stari Grad on Hvar, the beautiful Venetian harbour, nestled against tree-topped slopes and littered with shops and pavement cafés, Komiza, Vela Luka and Jelsa with there waterside square framed by beautiful old buildings, including the 16th-century cathedrals and the arches of the Venetian influences. The towns are a maze of stepped alleyways that roll up the hillsides. All this amongst numerous small bays and inlets, before returning to Baska Voda.
We tended to avoid busy marinas although you could spend time in these if you want. Our experience is that mooring stern to in a busy marina can be noisy at night will all the partying going on. We preferred to moor up to a buoy and row into a quiet bay with a nice friendly restaurant to enjoy the food and local wine!
If this has interested you enough and you would like to spend some time this year sailing in these waters, why not find out more about sailing off the Croatian coast. We can recommend a sailing company that has plenty of experience chartering yachts in this area, just go here for more information on dates and costs for your sailing holiday.
