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Route · 7 days · round-tripYacht charter route · Dubrovnik

Slano via Mljet & Lastovo.

A 7-day yacht route from Slano through Mljet, Lastovo, Vela Luka, the Pakleni Islands and Korčula, with distances and mooring notes for each night.

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Lopud
Day 1

Slano → Saplunara (Mljet)

A 14-mile hop southwest to Saplunara, where one of the Adriatic's rare sand beaches shelves gently off Mljet's quiet southeastern corner.

Distance

8 NM

Sailing

~1.6h at 5 kn

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Route at a glance

Best season

May – mid-October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Slano

Sailing area

Dubrovnik

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Day 1 / 7
Lopud
1
Day 1

Slano → Saplunara (Mljet)

Marina Frapa Resort Slano sits at the back of a long, well-protected bay about 25 miles up the coast from Dubrovnik, which makes it a calmer place to take over a boat than the marinas nearer the city. The first leg runs 14 miles southwest to Saplunara, on the far southeastern tip of Mljet and outside the national park line, so no park ticket is needed here. What draws crews in is the beach: a wide, shallow shelf of real sand, unusual on this coast, with the bottom staying pale and clear well out from the shore. Anchor in four to six metres on sand, or take one of the buoys the beach konobas lay in season. Once the hook is set, the swimming is superb. A short walk north brings you to the smaller cove at Blace.

Things to do

Swim off the boat over the sand shelf

Follow the shore path north to Blace cove

Grab a beach-konoba table for fresh grilled fish

Paddleboard the shallows before the day-trippers arrive

Sit out on deck under a sky with no shore glow

Mooring tip

Anchor in 4-6 m on good sand holding, or pick up a konoba buoy and eat ashore. The bay opens to the south, so if a southerly is forecast above 18 knots, shift six miles north to Okuklje, which is fully enclosed.

Skrivena Luka
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Day 2

Saplunara → Skrivena Luka (Lastovo)

The name translates as hidden harbour, and it earns it: from offshore the entrance is almost impossible to pick out until you are nearly on top of it. Inside, the bay opens into a long finger of water walled by hills on three sides, protected from every direction the wind can come from. Holding is good on sand and mud, and there is a small pontoon with water and power on the eastern shore, plus buoys laid by the Porto Rosso restaurant. The afternoon job is the walk up to the Struga lighthouse, built in 1839 on the cliff edge above the southern coast, one of the oldest on the Croatian coast. On a clear evening you can make out the Italian shore across the water. Lastovo is a nature park with almost no light pollution, so stay on deck after dark.

Things to do

Take a Porto Rosso buoy and dine ashore

Climb to the 1839 Struga lighthouse on the cliff

Take a dip in the flat water at the head of the inlet

Split a Lastovo jastog straight from the tank

Trace the whole Milky Way from the cockpit

Mooring tip

Buoys and a small water-and-power pontoon sit off the Porto Rosso restaurant on the east shore; overnight is billed separately from dinner. Anchoring on sand and mud also holds well. The bay takes wind from any quarter, so it is the fallback when Zaklopatica on the north coast turns nasty.

Vela Luka
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Day 3

Skrivena Luka → Vela Luka (Korčula)

Vela Luka means big port, and the long west-facing inlet at Korčula's western end lives up to it. The harbour takes wind from the north, northeast and east without trouble; only a strong southerly pushes swell into the inner basin. Tie up stern-to with your own anchor along the town quay for a modest fee, with water and power on the central stretch and a fuel pump at the western end. Three konobas line the waterfront, and this is the place to try žrnovski makaruni, the hand-rolled pasta that a couple of the local kitchens still shape by hand. In the afternoon, it's a half-hour climb up to Vela Spila, a cave that people have lived in on and off for twenty thousand years and one of the oldest inhabited spots on this coast. If there is time, take the dinghy out to Proizd.

Things to do

Hike up to the 20,000-year-old Vela Spila cave

Eat žrnovski makaruni, still hand-rolled in the village

Stroll the promenade as the light drops

Top off the tank at the pump on the west quay

Run the tender over to Proizd for a swim

Mooring tip

Stern-to with your own anchor on the town quay, modest fee, water and power midway along, fuel pump at the west end. Holding is reliable in mud and sand. Shelter is solid from north through east; only a southerly over about 18 knots sends swell into the inner harbour.

Palmizana
4
Day 4

Vela Luka → Palmižana (Hvar)

This is the long one, thirty miles east-northeast, and it pays to be off the dock early. The prevailing westerly Maestral usually fills in around two in the afternoon, and once it does the wind sits on the beam for the last stretch into the Hvar Channel, so we normally slip lines not long after dawn. Palmižana lies on the eastern side of Sv. Klement, the biggest of the Pakleni islets and the only one with a marina. The ACI berths fill fast in July and August, so book ahead or plan to anchor. The main bay holds in five to ten metres but rolls once the Maestral funnels through, which is why the south-side coves of Vinogradišće and Tarsce, both taken with a line ashore, make the more restful night. On the island itself the Meneghello family have kept a botanical garden going since 1906, and a handful of konobas along the bay handle dinner. Off the western point, a scatter of Roman amphorae sits in the shallows for anyone who brings a mask.

Things to do

Free-dive the Roman amphorae off the western point

Walk the Meneghello family's garden, planted 1906

Slip round to Vinogradišće and tie a line ashore

Ride the shuttle boat over to Hvar Town after dark

Walk the track over Sv. Klement to Vlaka hamlet

Mooring tip

Book the ACI marina online for July and August; there is a rock off the entrance to give a wide berth. If it is full, work into Vinogradišće on the south side, sand and weed with a line ashore, which also handles the afternoon westerly better than the exposed main bay.

Korčula
5
Day 5

Palmižana → Korčula Town

Twenty-two miles back across the Hvar Channel brings you to Korčula Town, the walled port on the island's eastern point. You will recognise it a long way off: a small peninsula of terracotta roofs, a single bell tower, and the pale curtain wall dropping straight to the sea. ACI Marina Korčula sits on the east side of the peninsula with lazy lines and full services, the all-weather choice. The town quay on the west side takes a few boats stern-to with your own anchor for a harbour fee, closer to the old gates but open to the westerly and rolly by mid-afternoon. The Old Town is tiny, laid out in a herringbone of lanes designed to break the wind. In season the Moreška, a staged sword battle four centuries old, plays on Monday and Thursday evenings. The wine to ask for is Grk, a white that really only grows on the sandflats at Lumbarda a few miles east.

Things to do

Catch the Moreška sword dance on a Monday or Thursday

Walk the medieval lanes once the day ferries clear out

Go up the cathedral bell tower for the rooftops

See the house they claim was Marco Polo's

Order a bottle of Grk from the Lumbarda sandflats

Mooring tip

In settled weather, ACI Marina Korčula on its eastern flank is the berth — laid lines, full services throughout. Its west town quay sits nearer the gates but meets the westerly and grows rolly by mid-afternoon; in a hard blow, Lumbarda, three miles southeast, stays calm.

Lopud
6
Day 6

Korčula → Kobaš (Pelješac)

Ten easy miles east lands you in Kobaš, a small cove on the south shore of the Pelješac peninsula, ringed by pines and quiet once the day boats leave. The waterside konoba lays free buoys for anyone eating ashore, so pick one up and book a table to hold it. Pelješac is the home of Plavac Mali, the dense red that fathered Zinfandel, and the reason to come is the wine country on the slopes above. The steep, south-facing vineyards around Dingač and Postup turn out the most concentrated reds in the country, with Dingač insisting on old-vine fruit off the cliff terraces. A short taxi runs you up to cellars like Bartulović or Saints Hills for a tasting; call a day ahead. Back aboard, the konoba does oysters from Mali Ston in the next bay and a slow-cooked pašticada worth the wait.

Things to do

Grab a free buoy off the konoba and reserve a table

Ride up to a Dingač or Postup cellar for a tasting

Start dinner with Mali Ston oysters and a local red

Swim off the boat in the shade of the pines

Follow the goat track up to the chapel on the hill

Mooring tip

The konoba lays free buoys held by a dinner booking, so confirm on arrival. If they are taken, anchor in eight to twelve metres on sand and weed. The cove is closed off from north, northwest and west but open south; if a southerly over 15 knots is coming, run six miles east into Mali Ston bay.

Slano
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Day 7

Kobaš → Slano

The run home is twelve miles southeast from Kobaš back to Marina Frapa Slano. The Saturday routine is fixed. You want the boat back alongside by 09:00, fuel topped, waste pumped out, decks hosed down and the inventory ticked off, with someone from the crew around for the walk-through the base runs between 08:00 and 09:00. The course tracks the southeast shore of Pelješac past a string of small bays, and there is usually time for a last swim in one of them before turning up into Slano. The marina sits at the head of a long, deep, well-sheltered bay, one of the better natural harbours on this stretch, with lazy lines, water, power and a fuel pontoon by the entrance. Once the inspection is signed off, Dubrovnik airport is about 45 minutes away by road. A slow lunch at the marina or in Slano village closes the week.

Things to do

Squeeze in one last swim off the Pelješac shore

Fill the tank and empty the holding before check-out

Settle in for a slow lunch at the marina

Wander into Slano village for a coffee

Mooring tip

Return into Marina Frapa Slano as your contract sets out; the base manager assigns the slot. The handover window is 08:00 to 09:00 Saturday, though some contracts ask for a Friday-evening return by 17:00. The fuel pontoon is on the western side of the marina entrance.

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