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

Pomer via Krk.

A 7-day sail from Pomer around the Kvarner islands: Cape Kamenjak, Mali Lošinj, Ilovik, Rab, Krk and Cres, with dolphins, anchorages and konobas.

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Kamenjak
Day 1

Pomer → Portic Bay (Cape Kamenjak)

An easy first-day run to the wild tip of Istria, where you anchor under Kamenjak's cliffs and walk to real dinosaur tracks.

Distance

4 NM

Sailing

~0.8h at 5 kn

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Best season

June – mid-September (peak Jul – Aug)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Pomer

Sailing area

Istria

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Day 1 / 7
Kamenjak
1
Day 1

Pomer → Portic Bay (Cape Kamenjak)

The first leg barely counts as a passage — an hour or so south from Pomer and you're rounding the last headland of Istria. Veliki Portić is the roomiest bay in the Kamenjak reserve, so we usually aim for there and drop the hook on sand at five or six metres. No road reaches this stretch of coast, which keeps the crowds thin once the day-trip boats head home. Take the dinghy ashore and follow the marked trail near the park entrance; the footprints pressed into the limestone are easy to walk past if you don't know where to look. Swim off the low cliffs, snorkel the clear water at the bay's edge, then settle in for the evening. Just read the forecast first: this anchorage is wide open to the Bora, with nothing behind you if it fills in from the northeast.

Things to do

Follow the marked dinosaur-footprint trail

Snorkel the clear water off Veliki Portić

Cliff-jump from the low Kamenjak rocks

Sundowner swim before the day boats leave

Mooring tip

Anchor free on sand and weed in five to eight metres; holding is decent, but check your set through the seagrass. It sits snug in southerly and southeast wind and stays open to the Bora, so clear out for Pomer or Medulin if the northeast is forecast.

Mali Lošinj
2
Day 2

Portic Bay → Mali Lošinj

This is the day that earns its miles. Twenty-five nautical miles of open water separate Kamenjak from Lošinj, so we like to slip the anchor by nine and use the morning before the afternoon chop builds. The Kvarner holds a resident pod of roughly two hundred bottlenose dolphins, studied for decades by the Blue World Institute over in Veli Lošinj, and they often come to ride the bow on this stretch. Mali Lošinj is one of the busiest harbours up here, its long pastel Riva lined with cafés and gelato counters. Anchoring in Čikat is off the table these days, so plan on a marina berth or a slot on the town quay. Once you're tied up, walk the waterfront, poke into the galleries, and eat scampi buzara at a harbourside table while the boats keep arriving.

Things to do

Watch for bow-riding bottlenose dolphins

Stroll the pastel Mali Lošinj Riva

Scampi buzara at a harbourside table

Visit the Blue World centre in Veli Lošinj

Mooring tip

Čikat's buoys are for hotel guests and the bay bans anchoring, so book a berth at Marina Lošinj in high season or take a first-come slot on the town Riva. For a quiet night instead, Krivica bay on the southwest coast is enclosed on every side.

Ilovik
3
Day 3

Mali Lošinj → Ilovik & Sveti Petar

After yesterday's slog, day three is a treat: six miles down the coast and you're off Ilovik. Fewer than a hundred people live here, there are no cars, and the waterfront runs thick with oleander and palms. The real draw is the channel between Ilovik and the uninhabited Sveti Petar islet, one of the most protected pieces of water in the whole Kvarner. Around eighty buoys fill it; depth sits near six metres in the middle and shoals fast toward each shore, so read your chart before you swing in. Pick up a restaurant buoy, kayak over to Sveti Petar to find the old Benedictine ruins and the cemetery chapel, then swim in the shallows before dinner. Ashore, Konoba Oliva and Dalmatinka both feed you well; take whichever buoy belongs to the place you choose.

Things to do

Kayak over to the Sveti Petar ruins

Pick up a restaurant buoy in the channel

Swim the shallow water off Ilovik

Dinner at Konoba Oliva or Dalmatinka

Mooring tip

The channel buoys are laid by the tavernas: tie to the one owned by the restaurant you'll eat at, and the mooring is free with dinner. It's sheltered from every direction, but both sides shoal quickly, so favour the deeper middle and don't cut the corners.

Rab
4
Day 4

Ilovik → Rab

Rab is a proper day's sail from Ilovik, roughly twenty-five miles, so treat it as a passage day and leave early. The payoff comes into view long before you arrive: four Romanesque bell towers rising off a thin peninsula, the skyline that put the town on every postcard. Berth at ACI Marina Rab, which takes boats up to twenty metres, or drop anchor west of town in Sveta Eufemija bay for a calmer, cheaper night. Rab is unusual for these waters in having real sand. The Lopar dunes on the north shore, Sahara among them, are a short tender ride or a quick bus hop away when you want a proper beach afternoon. Climb the Sveti Ivan tower for the rooftop view, wander the three old streets, and finish with a slice of Rapska torta, the almond cake the island's nuns have baked for centuries.

Things to do

Climb the Sveti Ivan bell tower

Beach afternoon on the Lopar dunes

Walk Rab's medieval Upper Street

Almond Rapska torta near the cathedral

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Rab has 134 berths and fills through July and August, so reserve ahead. For a quieter, free alternative, anchor in Sveta Eufemija bay just west of the old town, well sheltered and a five-minute dinghy from the walls.

Krk
5
Day 5

Rab → Krk

Twenty miles brings you up to Baška, tucked into the southeast corner of Krk under steep, treeless ridges. Vela Plaža is why most crews stop: nearly two kilometres of pale pebbles in a long arc, a Blue Flag beach that keeps turning up on Europe's best-of lists. The bay is open to southerly and southeast wind, and the Bora can push a real swell into the harbour, so keep half an eye on the sky. Baška has a small marina and a town quay; both fill in peak weeks, so call ahead or plan to anchor southeast of the breakwater in deeper water. Ashore, stretch your legs on the Moon Plateau trail behind town, or take a taxi up to Vrbnik, the clifftop village whose vineyards make the crisp white žlahtina. Dinner is šurlice, the hand-rolled Krk pasta, in a stone-cellar konoba.

Things to do

Beach day on Vela Plaža

Hike the Moon Plateau trail

Žlahtina tasting up in Vrbnik

Šurlice pasta in a cellar konoba

Mooring tip

Baška's inner harbour is snug and usually taken by local boats; the pier and the inner side of the breakwater are the next bet. In settled weather anchor about 400 metres southeast of the breakwater in 20 to 30 metres, but move if the Bora or a southerly gets up.

Cres
6
Day 6

Krk → Cres

Cross the Krk-Cres channel and work down the western shore to Valun, a handful of stone houses at the foot of a horseshoe bay. The village lays about ten buoys off its waterfront for boats eating ashore; beyond them you can anchor free on sand and weed in six to ten metres. It's a calm-weather spot, well worth it when the forecast cooperates. High on the cliff above sits Lubenice, a settlement people have lived in for some three thousand years, now down to a few dozen residents and reached by a steep road or a hard climb. In the village church at Valun, look for the eleventh-century stone tablet carved in both Glagolitic and Latin. Eat where the buoys are, at Na moru or MaMaLu on the seafront, and order the Cres lamb if it's on the board.

Things to do

Anchor under the Valun cliffs

See the Glagolitic Valun Tablet

Climb up to clifftop Lubenice

Cres lamb at a Valun konoba

Mooring tip

Valun's waterfront buoys are free if you dine at the taverna that owns them, so grab one early on a summer afternoon. Otherwise anchor further out on sand in six to ten metres, and only stay the night in settled weather, since the bay opens to the west.

Marina Pomer
7
Day 7

Cres → Pomer

The last day is the mirror of day two: twenty-five miles of open Kvarner back to Pomer. We usually wait for the mid-morning northwesterly, the thermal breeze that fills in most summer afternoons, and let it carry us home on a fair wind. If the sea stays kind, break the passage at Plavnik, the little island off the Cres coast whose Moon Bay makes a fine last swim. Keep an eye on the cliffs on the way through; peregrines nest along this coast and griffon vultures ride the thermals over Cres. Aim to reach Marina Pomer with daylight to spare, so you can top up fuel and settle the boat before handover. Then there's one thing left: a glass of Istrian Malvazija on deck as the light goes, the boat quiet under you for the first time all week.

Things to do

Last swim at Plavnik's Moon Bay

Spot griffon vultures over Cres

Refuel and settle at Marina Pomer

Farewell Malvazija on deck at dusk

Mooring tip

Call Marina Pomer a day ahead to lock in your berth and a fuel slot, since handover mornings get busy. If the evening is calm you can anchor free just outside the marina for a last quiet night before going in.

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