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Dubrovnik via Split & One way.

Sail one-way from Dubrovnik to Split in a week: Elaphiti, Mljet, Korčula, Lastovo, Vis and Hvar, with leg distances and where to moor each night.

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Lopud
Day 1

Dubrovnik → Šipan – Lopud

A gentle eight-mile start out of Komolac into the Elaphiti chain, where Šipan's quays and Lopud's sandy Šunj make the easiest first night.

Distance

11 NM

Sailing

~2.2h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – mid-October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Dubrovnik

Sailing area

Dubrovnik

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Day 1 / 7
Lopud
1
Day 1

Dubrovnik → Šipan – Lopud

Day one is the shakedown, and the Elaphiti chain is built for it. Clear ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac, follow the old flooded river out to sea, and the whole hop to these low green islands runs about eight miles. Most of the traffic settles on Šipan, the largest of the three. Its northern inlet at Šipanska Luka takes maybe ten boats stern-to with water on the pier, and Konoba Kod Marka, a few steps up from the quay, grills fish the way it ought to be done. Lopud is the calmer call: no cars, a Franciscan monastery over the harbour, and a track that climbs across the island to Šunj. Šunj is proper sand with a warm, wade-in shelf, which you almost never find this far south. Crew after a swim, we point the bow at Lopud; crew after a long konoba dinner, Šipan. Either way the anchorage stays settled with any south in the wind.

Things to do

Cross Lopud on foot to the sand at Šunj

Grilled fish at Konoba Kod Marka, Šipan

Visit the Franciscan monastery above Lopud harbour

Berth at Šipanska Luka town pier

Swim off the Šipan olive-grove coast

Mooring tip

Šipanska Luka is the safest berth in the group, roughly ten boats stern-to on your own anchor with water on the 40 m pier; grab a slot by mid-afternoon in July. Lopud's village quay works the same way but empties badly in a northerly, so if the forecast turns above 18 knots from the north, run back to ACI Dubrovnik for the night.

Pomena
2
Day 2

Šipan → Kobaš Bay – Pomena (Mljet)

Split the run to Mljet at Kobaš, a cove backed by pine on the Pelješac side of the channel. A couple of konobas here keep their own jetties and will wave you stern-to as long as you stay for lunch; if it's only a swim you want, drop the hook over sand in six to eight metres and go over the side. Gastro Mare and Konoba Kobaš both feed you well. Come afternoon, work the last miles up to Pomena, the western entrance to Mljet National Park. Take one of the ranger's buoys in the bay and pay him where you lie, and that same ticket counts as the crew's Park entry. Fifteen minutes on foot from the pontoon lands you at Malo Jezero, first of the two salt lakes. Give the rest of the day to the circuit: a footpath rings both lakes, a launch runs out to the Benedictine monastery on its islet in Veliko Jezero, and you can swim anywhere you please.

Things to do

Anchor off Kobaš for a midday swim over sand

Tie stern-to at a Kobaš konoba jetty

Settle the buoy fee with the Pomena ranger

Stroll the pontoon path to Malo Jezero

Ferry across Veliko Jezero to the island monastery

Mooring tip

The only mooring in Pomena is a Park buoy, running about €40 a night in season with the crew's Park entry built into the price; the ranger collects when you tie on. Shelter is good all round, and it takes a stiff northwesterly before any swell noses into the entrance. If the buoys are all taken, a few boats can lie stern-to off the village pontoon on their own hook instead.

Korčula
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Day 3

Pomena (Mljet) → Korčula

Korčula announces itself a long way out: a fist of stone pushing off the island's eastern tip, one campanile over the roofs, the sea wall wrapping three sides. Fourteen miles of open channel from Pomena get you across, most days an easy beam reach. You have two beds for the night. The ACI marina on the peninsula's east flank gives you lazy lines, power and water and holds in any weather; the town quay on the west flank drops you at the very foot of the walls but pays for it, taking the afternoon Maestral on the nose and rolling from two o'clock on. Inside, the old town is tiny, a ten-minute walk end to end, its side lanes fanned off the spine like ribs so the summer wind can't drive straight through. Go up St Mark's campanile for the channel view, put your head into the house they call Marco Polo's, and on a Monday or Thursday night stay for the Moreška, the old sword dance. Fancy a wine detour, the Grk vineyards at Lumbarda are a short reach to the southeast.

Things to do

Take the campanile stairs at St Mark's for the channel view

Look in at the Marco Polo house and the Land Gate

Stay for the Moreška sword dance on a Monday or Thursday

Taste Grk white in the Lumbarda vineyards

Track down a bowl of fish brodet off the back lanes

Mooring tip

For a night that ignores the weather, take the ACI marina on the peninsula's east side, lazy lines and full services. The quay under the walls is the postcard berth but sits open to the west Maestral and starts rolling by mid-afternoon, so save it for a flat-calm forecast. When the channel gets up, duck three miles southeast into Lumbarda, which holds quiet.

Zaklopatica
4
Day 4

Korčula → Zaklopatica (Lastovo)

Nowhere in this reach of the Adriatic goes as quiet as Lastovo. It's a Nature Park, the sky at night is about as black as Croatia gets, and there's next to nothing to do ashore, which is the whole reason to come. Count on fourteen miles down from Korčula. Zaklopatica bites into the north coast in a tight horseshoe, with a scrap of an islet across the mouth to knock the swell flat. The family konobas around the water, four or five of them, each keep a row of buoys for anyone eating in, so there's no puzzle to it: call ahead, book the table, the buoy comes with it. Triton and Aragosta are the ones we lean on. Leave the anchor stowed, the bed is seagrass and won't hold, and the Park would rather you left it be. Eat the lobster, or the šporki makaruli, that rough beef-and-macaroni stew they do out here. Then cut the cabin lights and sit out on deck; on a clear night the stars stack up overhead well before midnight.

Things to do

Trade a dinner booking for a night on the buoy

Eat the island lobster or a bowl of šporki makaruli

Hike up to Lastovo Town for the fumari chimneys

Swim out and snorkel the islet off the entrance

Sit out for the stars once the konoba closes

Mooring tip

The Zaklopatica buoys cost nothing so long as you dine at the konoba that owns them, so phone ahead and let the table booking pin your buoy down; Triton keeps about six and fills earliest. Don't bother with the anchor over that seagrass. Everything but a hard southeasterly is covered here, and if the scirocco is due over 15 knots, it's four miles south through the channel to Skrivena Luka, which shrugs off anything.

Komiza
5
Day 5

Zaklopatica (Lastovo) → Komiža (Vis)

Vis stayed shut to outsiders, a military island, right up to 1989, and you can still read that in how little has been built on it. This is the week's long leg, twenty-two miles up from Lastovo, so we like to slip the buoy by nine. Komiža sits out on the west coast, folded into a bay under Hum, which rears 587 metres straight off the water behind the town. Lie stern-to in the inner basin on your own hook; the bed is sand over weed and grips well enough most nights. Don't get talked onto the outer wall after dark, it takes the southwest swell full on. A quarter-hour on foot covers the whole town: fishing boats moored down the east side, the Fishermen's Museum tucked in the old Venetian tower, and konobas that turn on grilled sardines and a cold Vugava, the island's own white. If anyone's legs are still working, the climb to Tito's wartime cave on Hum hands over the best view in central Dalmatia.

Things to do

Berth stern-to in Komiža's inner basin

Step into the Fishermen's Museum in the old tower

Walk up Hum to the cave Tito hid out in

Pair a cold Vugava with grilled sardines

Catch the sun drop into open water off the mole

Mooring tip

Best bet is stern-to on your own anchor inside Komiža's inner basin; the sand-and-weed bottom does the job, and you'll pay a harbour fee. Steer clear of the outer wall overnight, it's wide open to any southwest swell. Should a southwesterly build past 15 knots, it's a six-mile run north to Vis Town, where St George's Bay gives you cover on all sides.

Palmizana
6
Day 6

Komiža (Vis) → Hvar (Palmižana)

Sveti Klement is the biggest of the Pakleni Islands, a low green spine that keeps Hvar town out of sight of the open channel. It's twenty miles east off Komiža to the ACI marina on the Palmižana shore, and its berths go early through July and August, so reserve online or be ready to swing on the hook. With the marina full, I'd sooner be on a line ashore in Vinogradišće on the south coast, which stays calmer once the afternoon westerly gets going. Days here fall into a pattern: the Meneghello botanical garden the family has kept since 1906, a scatter of konobas at the water's edge, and a mask-and-fins drift over the Roman amphorae sunk off the western point. Hvar town, and the crowds that come with it, is one water taxi east for anyone chasing the evening; stay put and the quiet is yours.

Things to do

Drift over the sunken amphorae off the western point

Wander the Meneghello family's century-old garden

Run a line ashore in Vinogradišće for the night

Hop the water taxi over to Hvar town after dark

Walk the goat track to Vlaka on the far shore

Mooring tip

Palmižana's ACI marina is stern-to on lazy lines, and through high summer you'll want that booking made online before you turn up. No room, and Vinogradišće on the south coast is the fallback, sand and weed with a line run ashore, and it sits better under the afternoon westerly. Don't lie out in the open main bay overnight once the southwest gradient sets in.

Trogir
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Day 7

Hvar (Palmižana) → Split (Trogir, Kaštela)

One last hop, twenty-two miles northeast off Palmižana, brings you into the ring of charter bases around Split. Saturday is handover day and it runs to a clock: alongside by nine with the fuel topped, the tanks pumped down, the decks hosed and someone aboard to walk the boat through with the base between eight and nine. Which base is written into your one-way papers. ACI Marina Split lands you nearest the centre and Diocletian's Palace; Marina Kaštela is the largest and sits a quarter-hour's drive west; ACI Trogir tucks against the old walled town and closest to the runway. None of the three is any bother to enter, day or night. Once the checkout is signed, the airport is ten to fifteen minutes from Trogir or Kaštela and a touch longer from Split. Time to spare before the transfer, spend it over a slow lunch on the Split Riva or in Trogir, and let a week's sailing settle.

Things to do

Top the tanks and empty the heads before checkout

Take one more turn through Diocletian's Palace

Poke around Trogir's walled old town if that's your drop

Get a last swim in at Bačvice below the old town

Sit out a slow lunch on the Split waterfront

Mooring tip

Hand the boat back at whichever base your one-way paperwork names, be it ACI Marina Split, Marina Kaštela or ACI Trogir; the dockmaster there will put you stern-to or alongside. Checkout runs eight to nine on the Saturday, so if your contract wants the boat in the night before, aim to be tied up by five on the Friday.

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