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Route · 14 days · one-wayYacht charter route · Sibenik

Primošten via Dubrovnik & 14 Days.

Two-week sailing loop from Primošten to Dubrovnik and back: Brač, Hvar, Vis, Lastovo, Mljet and Korčula, with mooring notes for every night.

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Veli Drvenik
Day 1

Primošten → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

An easy 15-mile shakedown southeast to Krknjaši, the shallow sand-floored bay wedged between the two Drvenik islands — a quiet first night.

Distance

12 NM

Sailing

~2.4h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

14 days

Departure

Primošten

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Veli Drvenik
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Day 1

Primošten → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

Marina Kremik sits two miles south of Primošten town, and it makes a calm base to load the boat before the first leg. From there it's fifteen miles down the open coast into the channel that separates Veli Drvenik from its smaller sister. Nobody sails to Krknjaši for the shore — you come to get in the water: pale sand at three to six metres, an anchor that bites first go, and a channel that turns proper turquoise the moment the breeze quits. A trio of tavernas on Veli Drvenik put out free buoys for anyone dining ashore, though plenty of crews just set the hook and stay put. There's no road to this side of the island, so the evenings stay quiet. Day one earns its keep by being dull: sort the galley, run the reefing lines through, let everyone claim a bunk. The serious miles start tomorrow.

Things to do

Drop anchor on sand and swim

Order grilled fish at a Drvenik buoy restaurant

Walk the short headland loop above Krknjaši

Run reefing drills in the light channel breeze

Watch the sun drop over the open Adriatic

Mooring tip

Anchor in four to six metres on firm sand, or take a restaurant buoy if you plan to eat ashore. The bay covers you from north through east and south; only a building westerly is a problem, in which case slip two miles east into Marina Trogir.

Milna
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Day 2

Veli Drvenik → Milna, Brač

The crossing to Milna runs twelve miles east-southeast over the Brač Channel, usually a comfortable reach once the morning wind fills. The town hides at the head of a long, kinked fjord on Brač's west side; you won't see the quay until you're nearly on it, though the 17th-century belfry gives the position away. Boats have wintered in here since Venice ran the coast. Take the inner quay stern-to on your own anchor, where the central run carries water and power for a small fee. The island's money was always in stone: the white blocks that built Diocletian's Palace were cut here, and its cooking turns on peka, meat and potatoes slow-roasted under an iron bell of embers. That last part is really a timing problem. Reckon on three hours, so find a konoba and put the order in before you so much as swim.

Things to do

Order lamb peka three hours before dinner

Find the 17th-century church on the inner quay

Taste local olive oil at the co-op

Dinghy north to Bobovišća for a swim

Wander the stone lanes above the harbour

Mooring tip

Go stern-to on the inner town quay with your own anchor; water and power sit on the central section for a small harbour fee. The inlet opens to the southwest, but even when the afternoon Maestral pushes past 15 knots the inner quay stays settled.

Palmižana
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Day 3

Milna → Palmižana, Hvar

The Pakleni Islands lie a fifteen-mile reach southeast off Hvar, and Palmižana is the one to aim for. It's tucked on the east flank of Sv. Klement — the largest islet out here and the only one that runs a marina. The ACI berths are stern-to on lazy lines and go early, so book online for July and August or resign yourself to the anchor. Anchoring holds fine at five to ten metres in sand and weed until about two o'clock, when the Maestral starts funnelling down the channel and the swell finds you. That's the cue to slip round to Vinogradišće or Tarsce on the south side and run a line ashore for a settled night. The set-piece ashore is the Meneghello garden, planted by the family in 1906; after that it's dinner at a konoba up the slope and a snorkel over the Roman amphorae still lying off the west shore.

Things to do

Snorkel the Roman amphora field, western shore

Walk the Meneghello botanical garden from 1906

Take a line ashore in Vinogradišće cove

Water-taxi across to Hvar Town for dinner

Cross the island footpath to Vlaka Bay

Mooring tip

ACI Palmižana is stern-to on lazy lines with online booking all but essential in high summer. If it's full, anchor in Vinogradišće on the south side, where a line ashore over sand and weed is the normal drill.

Komiza
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Day 4

Palmižana → Komiža

The leg out to Komiža covers twenty miles southwest, open water most of the way. Croatia has no inhabited island further west than Vis, and because the navy kept it off-limits until 1989 it still reads a step apart from the usual charter run. In the inner basin you moor stern-to on your own anchor over sand and weed; holding is mostly sound, though the outer wall feels any swell out of the southwest. Dinner leans on the harbour's own catch, grilled anchovies and the island's Vugava white, and Konoba Jastožera lays its tables over the water in an old lobster pound. Save an afternoon for the climb up Mount Hum to Tito's wartime cave, where British commandos and the Partisans ran operations; the view from the top reaches half of central Dalmatia.

Things to do

Climb Mount Hum to Tito's wartime cave

Eat over the water at Konoba Jastožera

Order grilled anchovies with a glass of Vugava

See the Fishermen's Museum in the Venetian tower

Watch the sunset from the harbour wall

Mooring tip

Anchor stern-to in the inner basin on your own hook — sand and weed, holding mostly good, harbour fee paid ashore. The outer wall lies open to southwesterly swell, so once a SW gradient pushes past 15 knots, slip the six miles across to St. George Bay at Vis Town.

Vela Luka
5
Day 5

Komiža → Vela Luka (Korčula)

This day runs on the sun. The Blue Cave on Biševo only turns that improbable electric blue when low morning light angles in through its underwater entrance, roughly between nine and eleven. You tie up at the little concession quay outside (a daytime fee, no overnight berthing) and take one of the licensed tenders that run people in and back out in about forty minutes. Once you're back aboard, point east and cover the eighteen miles to Vela Luka at the far western tip of Korčula. The long bay shelters well from north through east, has full town services, and keeps a fuel pump at the western end of the quay. Dinner is žrnovski makaruni, the hand-rolled island pasta, at a konoba a few steps back from the water.

Things to do

Queue for the Blue Cave tender by 10:30

Dinghy into the Green Cave at Ravnik

Order žrnovski makaruni at a Vela Luka konoba

Top up fuel at the western quay

Stroll the waterfront promenade at dusk

Mooring tip

Vela Luka takes you stern-to with your own anchor along the long town quay for a modest fee, water and power laid on, fuel pump at the western end. The bay is fully covered from north, northeast and east.

Zaklopatica
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Day 6

Vela Luka → Lastovo (Zaklopatica Bay)

Lastovo is fourteen miles further south, about the outer limit of where charter boats bother to go. The night stop is Zaklopatica, a bay bitten into the north shore in a tight U. Five family konobas ring it, and each keeps a run of free buoys for anyone coming in to eat — fifteen or so in all, with room on the quay too when it's calm. The kitchens lean on Lastovo lobster and šporki makaruli, pasta in a long-cooked meat sugo. There's next to no artificial light out here, and it shows: on a moonless night the Milky Way is up and obvious well before midnight. Sit out on deck for it. Not much else is competing for your attention, which is more or less the reason to come.

Things to do

Take a konoba buoy in return for dinner

Order Lastovo lobster or šporki makaruli

Walk inland to the Lastovo chimney stacks

Snorkel the islet at the bay mouth

Watch the Milky Way rise after dark

Mooring tip

Zaklopatica's free buoys go with a dinner booking, so confirm with the konoba as you pick one up. The bay covers you from north round to west; if a southeasterly above 15 knots is forecast, drop four miles south to Skrivena Luka.

Mljet
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Day 7

Lastovo → Mljet (Polače)

Polače is twenty-two miles up to the northeast, a long finger of water on Mljet's north coast so hemmed in it barely registers the weather outside. Green park buoys line the bay; pay the ranger at the kiosk and the fee covers park entry for the crew. The oddity here is the ruin a few metres back from the shoreline, a 4th-century Roman palace whose walls still stand roof-high in stretches. It's about half an hour on foot to Veliko Jezero, the larger of the park's two saltwater lakes, where a small park boat ferries visitors out to the 12th-century Benedictine monastery on the islet mid-lake. A flat trail loops both lakes if you want the legs stretched, and the swimming is warm and still.

Things to do

Pick up a park buoy, pay the ranger

Walk the 4th-century Roman walls on the shore

Ferry to St. Mary's monastery on the lake

Cycle the flat loop around Veliko Jezero

Swim in the warm saltwater lakes

Mooring tip

Polače is green park mooring buoys only, paid to the ranger on arrival (around €40 a night in 2025, crew park entry included). Holding elsewhere in the bay is patchy, so the buoys are the sensible choice.

Dubrovnik
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Day 8

Mljet → Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik shows itself twenty-four miles down the coast to the southeast, though you carry on another eight up the Rijeka Dubrovačka estuary to ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac. That's the practical overnight: lazy lines, water and power on every berth, a fuel pontoon. The Old Port on the seafront takes tenders by day only and sits open to any southerly. From Komolac, Bus 1A or a taxi reaches the Pile Gate in about fifteen minutes. The walls are the thing you don't skip — a 1.94-kilometre circuit that runs roughly ninety minutes and lays out the whole warren of terracotta roofs with the sea beyond. Go early or near closing to dodge the cruise-ship crush. In the evening, eat up a Prijeko side lane rather than on the Stradun, and finish with a drink at Buža, out on the rocks below the south wall.

Things to do

Walk the 1.94 km wall circuit early

Ride the cable car up Mt. Srđ

Dine up a quiet Prijeko lane

See the Rector's Palace and Franciscan cloister

Have a drink on the rocks at Buža

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac is really the only workable overnight, so book ahead in season; lazy lines and full services throughout. Treat the Old Port purely as a daytime tender stop.

Okuklje
9
Day 9

Dubrovnik → Mljet (Okuklje)

The return starts with a twenty-mile hop northwest to Okuklje, on Mljet's southeast coast — this stop sits outside the national park, so the fees don't apply. The bay is a narrow crescent good for maybe twenty boats, boxed in on three sides by hills the better part of a hundred metres tall. Three family konobas run the place and each hangs its own free buoys for guests eating ashore. The standby dish is crni rižot, black risotto stained with cuttlefish ink, and it's usually excellent. Those steep walls do something useful at day's end: whatever the wind is up to out in the channel, the anchorage goes glassy by sunset. This tends to be the quietest night of the whole loop, no town noise, no ferry wake, just water against the hull.

Things to do

Take a free konoba buoy, book dinner

Order crni rižot cooked with cuttlefish ink

Walk the headland path toward Korčula's view

Swim straight off the boat in flat water

Sleep through the quietest night of the trip

Mooring tip

Okuklje's konoba buoys are free with a dinner reservation, which locks your spot. The bay covers you fully from north, east and south; only a strong northwesterly over 18 knots sends any swell in.

Korcula
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Day 10

Okuklje → Korčula Town

A short run up the Pelješac Channel, fifteen miles northwest, sets you down beneath the ramparts of Korčula Town. Two options for the night: ACI Marina Korčula on the east side of the peninsula, full services and lazy lines, or the town quay on the west side, stern-to with your own anchor for a harbour fee but open to the afternoon Maestral. The old town is tiny, a fishbone of lanes laid out to funnel the wind and shade the streets, and it reads as a rehearsal for the radial grids Venice later built. Try to be here on a Monday or Thursday: the Moreška, a clashing two-sword battle dance, is staged those evenings through the season. For dinner, pour a glass of Grk, the white grape grown almost nowhere but the sandy vineyards of nearby Lumbarda.

Things to do

Catch the Moreška sword dance, Mon or Thu

Walk the old town once the ferries leave

Climb St. Mark's Cathedral bell tower

Look in at the disputed Marco Polo house

Drink a glass of Lumbarda Grk white

Mooring tip

Take ACI Marina Korčula on the eastern side for any weather — lazy lines, full services. The town quay looks nicer but sits open to the westerly Maestral, so use it only when the forecast is settled.

Jelsa
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Day 11

Korčula → Jelsa

Across the Hvar Channel, twenty-three miles on, Jelsa makes a slower-paced stand-in for the crowds of Hvar Town. Stern-to on your own anchor on the town quay holds well in mud and sand, and if you'd rather have lazy lines there's a small marina on the east side. This is the agricultural middle of the island. Lavender still climbs the road inland toward Vrboska and Stari Grad and gets cut commercially every July, while the konobas down the back lanes pour Bogdanjuša, a white that barely leaves Hvar. With a bike you can reach the UNESCO-listed Stari Grad Plain, a grid of dry-stone field walls the Greeks laid out 2,400 years ago and farmers still work today.

Things to do

Cycle the coast road to Vrboska's canals

Walk the ancient Stari Grad Plain grid

Order Bogdanjuša white at a back-lane konoba

Buy lavender oil from a July producer

Climb to the Tor tower for the channel view

Mooring tip

Drop your own anchor and back onto the Jelsa town quay; the mud-and-sand bottom grips well, with water and power along the central section. Need laid lines instead? The little marina on the eastern side has them.

lucice
12
Day 12

Jelsa → Lučice Bay (Brač)

It's a short one today — ten miles north over the Brač Channel to Lučice, a string of linked coves on Brač's south shore just east of Pučišća. No village here, no road, just white limestone cliffs and pine coming down to the water. Two seasonal restaurants work the coves, each with its own free buoys for guests, turning out grilled fish and the local Plavac Mali. The pale limestone carries on under the surface, so on a still summer day the bottom shows clear at twenty metres. If you fancy a leg-stretch, dinghy the mile west into Pučišća, where the stone-masonry school and its yards still cut the white blocks that built palaces up and down the coast. Otherwise this is a swimming-and-nothing afternoon, which after twelve days of miles is no bad thing.

Things to do

Take a free restaurant buoy in the central cove

Snorkel the pale limestone floor, 20 m down

Order grilled fish with Plavac Mali ashore

Dinghy to Pučišća's working stone-mason yards

Paddle the cliff coast at first light

Mooring tip

The restaurant buoys at Lučice are free if you eat ashore. If they're taken, anchor on the bottom in eight to twelve metres of sand and weed. The coves shelter you from north, northeast and east but stand open to a southerly.

Maslinica
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Day 13

Lučice Bay → Maslinica

The outer edge of the loop finishes at Maslinica, fourteen miles northwest, in the deep S-bend of a harbour on Šolta's western point. A scatter of islets guards the mouth, Polebrnjak and Stipanska among them, and they knock the flat off any Adriatic swell, which leaves one of the calmest natural harbours in the central islands. You've a choice of berths: Martinis Marchi Marina on the south side, lazy lines below an 18th-century baroque castle now run as a hotel, or the village quay opposite, stern-to on your own anchor for a modest fee. For all that it's the closest island to Split, barely fifteen miles off, Šolta stays the most low-key of the central group. Ask for Dobričić, the island's own dark grape, and watch the light go off Polebrnjak at the mouth.

Things to do

Step into the Martinis Marchi castle courtyard

Order Dobričić, Šolta's own red grape

Dinghy to Stipanska island's swim path

Buy Šolta olive oil at the village shop

Watch sunset from Polebrnjak at the bay mouth

Mooring tip

On the south side, Martinis Marchi runs full services and laid lines, worth reserving ahead in season. Opposite, the village quay is stern-to on your own hook. Screened by its islets, the bay holds calm from the south the whole way round to northwest.

Primosten
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Day 14

Maslinica → Primošten

One leg left: twenty miles northwest from Maslinica into ACI Marina Kremik, the Primošten base a couple of miles below the old town. Saturday turnarounds keep to the clock — alongside by 09:00, tanks pumped, fuel topped, decks rinsed and the inventory walked through. The course north passes the south coast of Šolta and slips back between the Drvenik islands you left on day one, so it closes the circle neatly. Once the base manager has signed off there's usually time to kill before transfers. Walk the path up to the 16th-century St. George church on the tip of the Primošten peninsula, or settle in for a long harbour-wall lunch with a last glass of the local Babić red. Split airport is about forty-five minutes north.

Things to do

Top up fuel and pump out before 09:00

Walk up to St. George church on the peninsula

Take a long lunch on the harbour wall

Order a last glass of Babić red

Ride the shuttle into Primošten old town

Mooring tip

Return into Marina Kremik as your charter contract specifies; the base manager will assign the slot. The handover window is 08:00 to 09:00 Saturday, so if your contract asks for a night-before return, be in by 17:00 on Friday.

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