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Route · 7 days · one-wayYacht charter route · Dubrovnik

Slano via Lastovo & Korčula.

Sail 7 days from Slano through the Elaphiti islands, Mljet National Park, Lastovo and Korčula. Anchorages, konoba moorings and daily NM, skipper-tested.

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Lopud
Day 1

Slano → Lopud

A short 10-mile hop southwest from Slano lands you on car-free Lopud, where a footpath crosses to the sandy shallows of Šunj.

Distance

7 NM

Sailing

~1.4h 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 → Lopud

The first leg is gentle, ten miles southwest out of Marina Frapa and down into the Elaphiti chain. Lopud has no cars, so the village strings itself around the northwest bay and you moor stern-to on the quay with your own anchor for a small fee. Water and power reach the central berths. The reason everyone comes is Šunj, a genuine sand beach on the far side of the island, maybe half an hour on foot through olive terraces. We usually swim there in the late afternoon once the day-trip boats have gone. Back in the village, the fortified Franciscan monastery on the seafront dates to the 15th century and is worth a wander. Dinner is grilled squid and a cold Pošip from the Korčula vineyards across the water.

Things to do

Walk the olive path to Šunj sand beach

See the 15th-century fortified Franciscan monastery

Order grilled squid at a village konoba

Climb to the ruined fort above town

Pour a cold Pošip from Korčula vineyards

Mooring tip

Moor stern-to on the village quay, dropping your own anchor, for a modest harbour fee with water and power on the inner berths. Good shelter from S through W, but a northerly gradient blows straight in — if it tops 18 knots, slip 4 miles up to Šipanska Luka.

Saplunara
2
Day 2

Lopud → Saplunara Bay (Mljet)

West again, fourteen miles to Saplunara at the bottom corner of Mljet. You are outside the National Park boundary here, so no park fees. The bay fronts a real sand beach, a rarity on this rocky coast, and the water over that pale floor comes up a milky green you don't often see this far down the Adriatic. Anchor in four to six metres, where the sand gives excellent holding, or grab one of the seasonal buoys the beach konobas lay out. Konoba Saplunara is the long-running family place if you want dinner ashore; grilled orada and a carafe of house white is the order. Shelter is solid from north, northwest and west. Only a southerly gradient sends swell into the inner bay, and if that builds, Okuklje six miles north is bomb-proof.

Things to do

Anchor over sand and swim off the boat

Walk to the Blace lagoon just southeast

Order grilled orada at Konoba Saplunara

Climb to the chapel above the village

Watch the open-Adriatic stars after dark

Mooring tip

Anchor in 4–6 m over sand for the best holding, or pick up a free konoba buoy if you are dining ashore. The bay covers you from north, northwest and west; a southerly is the weakness, so if it forecasts over 18 knots, run six miles up to Okuklje, which shuts out everything.

Pomena
3
Day 3

Saplunara → Pomena (Mljet National Park)

Round the western end of Mljet, fifteen miles, and Pomena sits at the far tip as the quieter entrance to the National Park. Pick up a green park buoy in the bay and settle the fee with the ranger, which folds in park entry for the crew, or take a stern-to slot at the village pontoon. Fifteen minutes on foot puts you at Malo Jezero, the smaller of the two saltwater lakes; keep going and the shore path meets Veliko Jezero, where the little park boat shuttles out to the Benedictine monastery on its own islet. The lakes are worth a whole afternoon. You can swim off the rocks the whole way round, the full circuit runs about nine kilometres, and by mid-August the cicadas get loud enough to drown out whoever you're walking with. Grilled fish and a Pošip close the day.

Things to do

Take a park buoy and pay the ranger

Walk fifteen minutes to Malo Jezero lake

Ferry across to St Mary's island monastery

Hike the nine-kilometre lake loop

Order grilled fish at a Pomena konoba

Mooring tip

Pomena uses paid park mooring buoys, around €40 a night in 2025, which includes park entry for the crew; pay the ranger when you arrive. The bay is well protected, and only a northwesterly over 18 knots pushes any real swell through the entrance.

Zaklopatica
4
Day 4

Pomena → Lastovo (Zaklopatica Bay)

Twenty miles southwest, out to Lastovo, and the traffic thins to almost nothing. This is a Nature Park with the darkest skies in Croatia, and you tuck in for the night at Zaklopatica, a tight horseshoe on the north coast where a low islet sits square across the mouth and flattens whatever swell tries to get in. Enter through the eastern channel, which carries eight metres; the western gap shoals to barely a metre and a half. Five family konobas ring the water, and each one keeps a run of free buoys for anyone eating at their table. The deal is simple: book the buoy and a dinner table together. Lastovo's kitchen leans on lobster and šporki makaruli, a slow beef-and-macaroni stew. Come a clear night, you'll have the whole Milky Way arched overhead long before the konobas close.

Things to do

Take a konoba buoy in return for dinner

Order Lastovo lobster or šporki makaruli

Walk up to Lastovo Town's fumari chimneys

Snorkel the islet across the bay mouth

Watch the Milky Way after midnight

Mooring tip

The konoba buoys at Zaklopatica are free with dinner, so confirm your table on arrival and the buoy is yours. Come in through the eastern channel (about 8 m); the western entrance is only 1.4 m. Anchoring is discouraged over the seagrass, and if a fresh SE is forecast, drop down to Skrivena Luka on the south coast.

Korčula
5
Day 5

Zaklopatica → Korčula Town

Korčula Town is one you pick out early. Fourteen miles off to the northeast it's already there: a wedge of red roofs on a stub of peninsula, a single bell tower standing over them, the old walls dropping into the sea on three sides. ACI Marina sits on the eastern side of the old town with lazy lines and full services, and it fills fast in July and August, so book ahead. The town quay on the west takes a few stern-to boats with own anchor for a fee, but it goes rolly once the Maestral fills after lunch. Inside the walls the streets fan out in a herringbone that the Venetians later copied elsewhere. The Moreška, a sword drama between two armies that dates back four centuries, plays Monday and Thursday evenings in season. Dinner calls for a glass of Grk, the white grown on Lumbarda's sandy vineyards just east.

Things to do

Catch the Moreška sword dance, Mon or Thu

Wander the old town once the ferries leave

Climb St Mark's Cathedral bell tower

Look in on the Marco Polo house

Taste Grk white from Lumbarda's sands

Mooring tip

East-side ACI Marina Korčula is the all-weather bet, offering laid lines plus water, power and fuel; reserve ahead in high season. The western town quay accepts stern-to boats but stands exposed to the afternoon Maestral, rolling past 14:00. For calm, head three miles southeast to sheltered Lumbarda.

Mljet
6
Day 6

Korčula → Polače (Mljet)

The run back to Mljet is eighteen miles, up onto the north coast this time and into Polače, a long narrow gash of an inlet that doubles as the park's western gate. Nothing on this stretch of coast shelters you better. It's shut off from north, northeast, east and southeast, and the mouth is so tight you don't clock it until you're already through. Take a green park buoy and pay the ranger at the waterfront kiosk, crew park entry included, or slot stern-to at the small village pontoon. The ruins of a fourth-century Roman palace sit metres from where you tie up. With the afternoon spare, climb Montokuc, at 253 metres the high point of western Mljet, for a full turn of view over the park, or take the ferry across Veliko Jezero to the monastery. Black risotto is the local order for dinner.

Things to do

Tie to a park buoy at the kiosk

Walk through the fourth-century Roman palace ruins

Climb Montokuc, 253 m, for the panorama

Ferry across Veliko Jezero to the monastery

Order black risotto at a village konoba

Mooring tip

Polače also runs paid park buoys, roughly €40 a night in 2025 with crew park entry rolled in; pay the ranger on arrival. This is one of the most sheltered anchorages on the south coast, fully closed off from north, northeast, east and southeast, so it holds even when the forecast turns.

Slano
7
Day 7

Polače → Slano

Last day, and it's twenty miles east-northeast from Polače straight back to Marina Frapa Slano. This is a Saturday changeover, so the clock matters: the base wants the boat alongside by 09:00, fuelled up, holding tanks pumped, decks hosed off and the gear checked against the list, with you aboard for the hand-back between 08:00 and 09:00. Since the track threads the Elaphiti anyway, most crews steal a last swim on the way in, at Šipanska Luka, off Lopud, or in one of the little bites of coast at Koločep, before rounding into Slano Bay. Leave Polače at first light and there's still time to cut the engine for half an hour over sand and reach the marina without rushing. Paperwork signed and tanks topped, Dubrovnik airport is about 45 minutes down the coast by car, and a slow lunch at the marina restaurant is the right way to shut the week.

Things to do

Take a last swim in the Elaphiti islands

Top up fuel and pump out before 09:00

Have a final dip off the pontoon

Stand a long lunch at the marina restaurant

Walk into Slano village for its konobas

Mooring tip

Bring her back into Marina Frapa Slano as your contract states; the base manager will point you to a slot. The Saturday handover window is 08:00 to 09:00, so if your paperwork asks for a night-before return, be alongside by 17:00 Friday. The fuel pontoon is on the western side of the marina entrance.

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