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

Primošten via National park Kornati.

Seven-day sailing route from Primošten: Zlarin and the Šibenik islands, Krka's waterfalls at Skradin, Telašćica cliffs and Kornati National Park.

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Zlarin
Day 1

Primošten → Zlarin

Twelve miles north from Kremik to Zlarin, a car-free island where local divers have worked the red-coral beds since 1412.

Distance

8 NM

Sailing

~1.6h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Primošten

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Day 1 / 7
Zlarin
1
Day 1

Primošten → Zlarin

We usually clear ACI Marina Kremik mid-morning and point the bow north, twelve miles of open coast before the Šibenik islands close in around you. Zlarin sits low and green off the estuary mouth, a single village strung along its eastern shore and not a car on the whole island. The place made its name on coral. Divers here have pulled red coral off the offshore beds since 1412, and the small museum on the square lays out six centuries of the trade in a couple of rooms. Tie up stern-to on the main pier, where water and power run to the central berths for a modest harbour fee. The forested interior is worth an hour on foot. Come evening, Konoba Ivana at the top of the harbour fills with locals, and dinner is whatever the boats brought in.

Things to do

See the coral museum on the main square

Walk the pine interior to the north end

Dinner at Konoba Ivana above the harbour

Swim off the rocks below the village

Browse the two coral workshops in the village

Mooring tip

The 140-metre pier holds around 40 boats stern-to on your own anchor, with water and power on the inner berths; it shelters from the west and north but sits open to the SE. If a sirocco is forecast over 15 knots, duck 4 miles up into the Šibenik estuary for the night.

Krka
2
Day 2

Zlarin → Skradin, NP Krka

This is a passage most crews remember. From Zlarin you thread the channel past Šibenik's old town, slip under the road bridge with its 49 metres of clearance, and follow the St Anthony narrows into a walled freshwater canyon with no real parallel on this coast. Allow ninety minutes at displacement speed from the river mouth; the entrance is well buoyed and deep enough for any charter draft. ACI Marina Skradin waits at the head of the river, lazy lines on every berth and fuel by the entrance. Buy your park ticket at the seawall kiosk and take the included shuttle up to Skradinski Buk, where the water drops 46 metres over seventeen travertine steps. A boardwalk loops both banks. Back in town, order the Skradin risotto, beef and saffron cooked down over hours.

Things to do

Ride the park shuttle to Skradinski Buk

Walk the boardwalk loop below the falls

Order Skradin risotto in the old town

Hike the 3.4 km canyon path upriver

Take on fuel at the marina pontoon

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Skradin has lazy lines and full services, with the fuel pontoon right at the entrance. The river channel is well marked and deep, but budget 90 minutes up from the Šibenik mouth at slow speed, and remember there is no anchoring anywhere inside the park.

Kaprije
3
Day 3

Skradin → Kaprije

Retrace the river, back under the St Anthony narrows, then bear west for open water and Kaprije. The island took its name from the caper bushes that still grow wild across it, and its 140 residents all live around the one bay on the eastern side. No cars here either. The harbourmaster works the moorings along the mole, and you berth stern-to on your own anchor; water reaches the central berths but there is no shore power, so charge up before you arrive. Ninety minutes on foot gets you round the whole island. The path up to the little chapel on the spine opens out over the Kornati cluster offshore, your ground for the next two days. Konoba kod Kate, a handful of tables, cooks whatever came in that morning.

Things to do

Climb the ridge path to the chapel

Eat the day's catch at Konoba kod Kate

Swim off the rocks south of the harbour

Dinghy out to the islets off the bay

Walk the full island in ninety minutes

Mooring tip

Berth stern-to with your own anchor on the Kaprije mole; water on the central berths, no power, so top up the batteries beforehand. The bay is snug in southerlies and westerlies but wide open to a NE bora; if one is forecast above 18 knots, run 4 miles east into Mikavica bay on Žirje.

Telascica
4
Day 4

Kaprije → Telaščica Bay

Fourteen miles northwest brings you into Telašćica, cut deep into the southern end of Dugi Otok and reckoned among the safest natural harbours in the Adriatic. The western arm runs under pine and rock; the eastern side breaks into a scatter of coves and islets. Pick up one of the park buoys, which is mandatory here, and the ranger comes round by tender for the fee and your rubbish. Two things pull people ashore. Mir, the salt lake behind the isthmus, warms well above sea temperature and swims like a bath; a short path leads over to it, and the island donkeys usually wander the shore. And the Grpašćak cliffs on the seaward side stand 160 metres over the water, with a marked trail along the top and the Kornati laid out below. Stay aboard after dark for the cicadas.

Things to do

Take a park buoy and pay the ranger

Walk over to Mir salt lake for a swim

Hike the Grpašćak cliff trail for the view

Snorkel the coves on the eastern shore

Watch for the free-roaming island donkeys

Mooring tip

A park mooring buoy is compulsory in Telašćica, and the overnight fee collected by the ranger covers park entry. The bay holds well in every wind direction, which makes it one of the few genuinely all-weather nights on this route.

Kornati
5
Day 5

Telaščica Bay → NP Kornati, Piškera

Only ten miles today, but they run through the heart of the park. ACI Marina Piškera sits on Panitula Vela at the western edge, a shelf of lazy-line berths with water, power and a restaurant built onto the rock; a second place across the water sends its own tender for guests. Book online in July and August, when the marina fills. Pay your park entry online too if you can, since it comes cheaper than at the kiosk, and berthing here folds in the ticket for the day and the next. The afternoon is for the water. Take the tender across to snorkel the channel between Piškera and Lavsa, or motor down to the southern crowns off Mana and Kornat, where the naked karst falls eighty metres sheer into the sea. Nothing grows out on those crowns, just rock and salt and glare off the water.

Things to do

Pre-pay park entry online before you arrive

Snorkel the channel between Piškera and Lavsa

Motor out to the Mana and Kornat cliffs

Eat at the restaurant above the marina

Walk the karst spine of Panitula Vela

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Piškera runs lazy lines on every berth; book ahead for July and August. Overnight anchoring inside the park is limited to five bays only, Lavsa, Lojena, Vrulje, Stiniva and Statival, so plan for the marina or one of those and nothing in between.

Murter
6
Day 6

Piškera → Jezera (Murter)

Twelve miles east and you are back among inhabited islands. Murter is the closest land to the Kornati and has launched charter crews toward the park for generations; strictly it is a peninsula, joined to the mainland by the small bridge at Tisno. ACI Marina Jezera lies on the south coast, full services, lazy lines, fuel at the entrance, and the village folds around the bay behind it. The good konobas hide in the back lanes, where pašticada, beef braised down in red wine, is the dish to order. Off the boat there is more here than most crews expect. Walk out to the Tisno salt pans, worked since Roman times and still producing, or take the short hop to Slanica for a rare sand beach on this coast. Betina, next door, keeps a small museum of Murter's wooden-boat building.

Things to do

Order pašticada in a Jezera back-lane konoba

Walk to the Roman-era Tisno salt pans

Swim at Slanica sand beach

See the wooden-boat museum in Betina

Taste local Murter olive oil quayside

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Jezera brings laid lines, a full service list and a fuelling pontoon by the entrance; with the bay calm in most conditions, it makes a dependable all-weather hold before the long last push home.

Primosten
7
Day 7

Jezera (Murter) → Primošten

The last leg is the longest, twenty miles south back to ACI Marina Kremik, and worth leaving by nine to have the day at the far end. The course tracks past the shoals off Vodice and Tribunj, all well marked but worth a proper look at the chart before you settle on a line. Saturday handover runs early: boat alongside by nine, fuel topped, tanks pumped, decks rinsed and the inventory checked through. With the paperwork signed off, the peninsula is yours for a few hours. Climb up to the sixteenth-century church of St George on the point above the old town, where the Babić vineyards run down the slopes, or hold the harbour wall over a long lunch. Split airport is forty-five minutes up the road when the transfer calls.

Things to do

Climb to St George's church on the point

Take the last Babić red on the peninsula

Lunch long on the Primošten harbour wall

Ride the shuttle from Kremik to the old town

Top up fuel before the nine o'clock check

Mooring tip

Return into ACI Marina Kremik as your contract sets out, with the base manager assigning the berth; the handover window is usually eight to nine on Saturday. If your paperwork asks for a night-before return, aim to be alongside by 17:00 on the Friday.

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