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

Rogoznica via Dubrovnik & 14 Days.

Two weeks from Rogoznica down to Dubrovnik and back: Brač, Hvar, Vis, Lastovo, Mljet and Korčula, with anchorages, konobas and mooring notes for each day.

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Veli Drvenik
Day 1

Rogoznica → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

A gentle 15-mile shakedown leg southeast to the pale sand shallows of Krknjaši, where three roadless konobas keep buoys for dinner guests.

Distance

8 NM

Sailing

~1.6h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

14 days

Departure

Rogoznica

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Veli Drvenik
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Day 1

Rogoznica → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

The first leg is deliberately easy: fifteen miles out of Marina Frapa, tracking the open coast southeast until the channel between Veli and Mali Drvenik opens up. Krknjaši is all about the water. The floor is bright sand at three to six metres, the holding is reliable, and by midday the anchorage glows that improbable turquoise you came for. Veli Drvenik has no road, so the handful of family konobas reach guests by tender or on foot, and each lays a few free buoys for anyone booking a table. We usually drop the hook early, swim before the day boats thin out, then walk the short headland loop while the grill gets going ashore. It shelters well from every quarter except the west and northwest, so check the afternoon forecast before you commit to the night.

Things to do

Dive off the bow into the turquoise shallows before the day boats arrive

Tender across to roadless Veli Drvenik for grilled fish at a family konoba

Stretch your legs on the footpath around the headland above the anchorage

Snorkel the channel between Veli and Mali Drvenik

Mooring tip

Drop anchor in four to six metres on firm sand, or take one of the konoba buoys if you plan to eat ashore. Fine in settled weather, but the bay opens to the west and northwest, so move on if a sea breeze is forecast to back that way overnight.

Milna
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Day 2

Veli Drvenik → Milna, Brač

Milna sits deep in a bay near the western tip of Brač, and it has been sheltering boats since the Venetians ran this coast. The bell tower of the parish church guides you in, visible well before the harbour mouth resolves, with stone houses stacked up the slope behind. Mooring is stern-to with your own anchor along the town quay, water and power on the central stretch, a modest fee at the end of the day. Brač built its reputation on white limestone, the same stone quarried for Diocletian's Palace in Split. The island's other signature is slower: lamb baked under the peka, a bell of iron and coals that needs three hours, so order it when you arrive rather than when you are hungry. Quieter than Hvar or Bol, and all the better for it.

Things to do

Put in your order for the peka lamb the moment you tie up; it needs three hours

Look up at the parish bell tower that marks the harbour mouth

Pick up island olive oil at the growers' cooperative

Row the dinghy up to Bobovišća for an evening swim

Mooring tip

Berth stern-to with your own anchor on the inner town quay; the central section has water and power for a modest fee. The harbour opens toward the southwest, but the inner quay stays comfortable even when the afternoon Maestral pipes up over fifteen knots.

Palmižana
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Day 3

Milna → Palmižana, Hvar

The Pakleni chain scatters across the water just off Hvar Town, and Palmižana is the one islet in it set up for boats. Slots at the ACI marina take lazy lines, and in July and August you book them online or you don't get in. When the marina fills, the Vinogradišće buoy field on the south side is the fallback; the cove is ringed with pine and anchoring there is no longer allowed, so pick up a mooring. Ashore, the Meneghello family has been running this place for over a century, and their botanical garden is worth an hour before dinner. Konobas here lean toward long, unhurried evenings and local wine. When the crew wants nightlife, a water taxi runs across to Hvar Town in minutes and saves you the harbour scrum.

Things to do

Lose an hour in the Meneghello family's botanical garden before dinner

Snorkel over the sunken Roman amphorae off the western shore

Hop the water taxi to Hvar Town when the crew wants a late one

Cross Sv. Klement on foot to the hamlet of Vlaka

Mooring tip

The ACI marina takes lazy lines and books out for July and August, so reserve online well ahead. If it is full, take a mooring in the Vinogradišće buoy field on the south side rather than trying to anchor, which is no longer permitted there.

Komiza
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Day 4

Palmižana → Komiža

Vis is the farthest out of the inhabited islands, and it feels it. The military kept it closed until 1989, which is a large part of why the place still runs on fishing rather than tourism. Komiža tucks into a deep bay at the foot of Mount Hum, protected from the north, and its quay offers stern-to mooring with water and power if you arrive before the early afternoon rush. Get in, tie up, then climb Hum for the view or poke around the fishing fleet on the eastern side of the harbour. The konobas do brodet, grilled octopus and the local pogača, washed down with Vugava, the island's own white. Come evening the whole waterfront turns west and waits for the sun to drop into open sea. Nothing on this route beats it.

Things to do

Climb Hum to Tito's wartime cave for the run of the island

Poke around the fishing boats moored along the eastern harbour

Drink a glass of Vugava with brodet or grilled octopus at a konoba

Track down the Falkuša replicas at the Fishermen's Museum

Mooring tip

Stern-to with your own anchor on the inner town quay, and aim to arrive before early afternoon in season to find a spot. The outer wall catches southwest swell; if it is blowing hard from that quarter, run six miles up to Vis Town in St George's Bay instead.

Vela Luka
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Day 5

Komiža → Vela Luka (Korčula)

This is a morning-driven day. The Blue Cave on Biševo only lights up when the sun sits at the right angle, roughly nine to eleven, and private dinghies aren't allowed inside, so you queue for the official tender and time your arrival accordingly. Once you've seen it, the Green Cave over on Ravnik is an easier stop that you can enter under your own power, usually with far fewer boats around. From there it's a straightforward eighteen miles east to Vela Luka at the tail of Korčula. The bay is well tucked from north through east, there's a fuel pump at the western end, and the town has everything you need to restock. For dinner, order the žrnovski makaruni, the pasta they still roll by hand here. Leave the caves early; the tender line only grows as the morning goes.

Things to do

Line up early for the official tender into Biševo's Blue Cave

Slip your own dinghy into the quieter Green Cave on Ravnik

Stock the galley from the Vela Luka shops before the next leg

Sit down to a plate of žrnovski makaruni, the hand-rolled island pasta

Mooring tip

Vela Luka has a long town quay for stern-to mooring with your own anchor, plus water, power and a fuel pump at the western end. The bay is well protected from north through east, so it is a dependable overnight in most summer conditions.

Zaklopatica
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Day 6

Vela Luka → Lastovo (Zaklopatica Bay)

Lastovo takes some getting to, which is exactly its appeal. Few boats bother, and the ones that do tend to be crewed by people who've sailed here before. Most crews tuck into Zaklopatica for the night. Fifteen buoys sit in the narrow bay, laid by family konobas like Augusta Insula and Triton, and the mooring costs nothing once you have booked a table. The kitchens here are serious about lobster, jastog on the menu, alongside šporki makaruli in a slow-cooked meat sauce. What sets the island apart comes after dark. Lastovo was made a Dark Sky Park in 2018, and on a clear night the Milky Way stands out so sharply you can pick out satellite tracks. If a southeasterly is forecast above fifteen knots, drop down to Skrivena Luka instead, where thirty buoys sit inside a bay you can't even see from open water.

Things to do

Grab a konoba buoy in Zaklopatica and settle in for the night

Split a Lastovo lobster or the šporki makaruli in its slow meat sauce

Kill the deck lights and let the Dark Sky Park do the rest

Hike inland to see Lastovo's oddly grand chimney stacks, the fumari

Mooring tip

Zaklopatica has around fifteen konoba buoys; call ahead or agree one on arrival, and a dinner booking holds it for the night. The bay covers you from north to west, but for a southeasterly blow move four miles south to fully enclosed Skrivena Luka.

Mljet
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Day 7

Lastovo → Mljet (Polače)

Polače is one of those anchorages that makes the passage worth it. The inlet runs long and narrow into Mljet's north coast, hills close on both sides, and it holds calm when much of the coast is bouncing around. The name comes from palatium: the ruins of a fourth-century Roman palace still stand along the shoreline, close enough that you moor almost inside them. Overnight is on the green national park buoys, paid at the ranger kiosk, which folds in park entry for the crew. Once you're settled, a half-hour walk brings you to Veliko Jezero, the larger of the two saltwater lakes, where a park boat ferries you out to the islet and its twelfth-century Benedictine monastery. Bring bikes or good shoes; the loop trail around the lakes runs to nine kilometres and rewards the effort with quiet coves.

Things to do

Moor a stone's throw from the fourth-century Roman palace on the shore

Catch the park launch out to the Benedictine monastery on Veliko Jezero

Ride a bike the whole way round the nine-kilometre lake trail

Cool off with a swim in the warm saltwater lakes

Mooring tip

Polače uses paid national park mooring buoys, settled with the ranger on arrival at roughly forty euros a night with crew park entry included. It is one of the most sheltered overnights on the southern coast, so it rarely disappoints.

Dubrovnik
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Day 8

Mljet → Dubrovnik

Twenty-four miles down the coast brings you to ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac, set well up the Rijeka Dubrovačka estuary where the water goes flat and river-quiet. Every berth has lazy lines, water and power, and there's a fuel pontoon on the way in. Don't plan on the Old Port for the night; it's a daytime tender stop only and lies open to any southerly. From Komolac the 1A bus or a taxi gets you to the Pile Gate in about a quarter of an hour. Then it's the city. Walking the walls is the thing everyone does and everyone should, a two-kilometre circuit that takes ninety minutes and shows you the town from every angle. Afterwards, skip the Stradun crowds and eat down a Prijeko side street, or take a drink at Buža, wedged into the rocks outside the south wall.

Things to do

Walk the whole two-kilometre wall circuit; give it a good ninety minutes

Ride the cable car up Mount Srđ and look back down on the walls

Eat on a Prijeko back lane and skip the Stradun crowds

Take a drink at Buža, clinging to the rocks below the south wall

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac is the only sensible place to leave the boat overnight; book ahead in high season as it fills fast. The Old Port inside the walls is fine for a daytime tender visit but exposed and off-limits for staying.

Okuklje
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Day 9

Dubrovnik → Mljet (Okuklje)

After the noise of Dubrovnik, Okuklje is the antidote. It sits on Mljet's southeast shore, just outside the national park line, which means no buoy fees and no ranger. The bay is a tight little U with room for twenty-odd boats, and the three family konobas string out their own moorings for free when you dine with them. There's not much to do here, and that's the point. Order the crni rižot, the black cuttlefish-ink risotto that turns everything the same shade, then swim off the stern into flat water. Later, walk the headland path for a look back toward Korčula. No town, no traffic, no late ferries thumping through. The bay stays snug from north, east and south; only a strong northwesterly, over about eighteen knots, sends any swell worth noticing into the anchorage.

Things to do

Pick a konoba, book a table, and its buoy is yours for the night

Order the crni rižot, black with cuttlefish ink and worth the mess

Follow the headland path for the long look back to Korčula

Go over the side straight off the stern into water flat as glass

Mooring tip

Okuklje's konobas lay their own free buoys, held for the night by a dinner reservation. The bay shelters you from north, east and south, and only a northwesterly above eighteen knots or so pushes in any noticeable swell.

Korcula
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Day 10

Okuklje → Korčula Town

Korčula Town announces itself from a way off, a compact walled peninsula bristling with towers. The medieval planners laid the streets in a herringbone so the summer Maestral could reach the lanes while winter gusts were kept out, and it still works. For the night, take the ACI marina on the east side, which holds calm in any wind and gives you lazy lines. The prettier town quay on the west is stern-to, but the afternoon Maestral blows straight onto it, so save it for a settled evening. Wander the old town after the day ferries have gone and it empties out beautifully. Climb the bell tower of St Mark's for the rooftops, argue about whether Marco Polo was really born here, and time your visit for a Monday or Thursday evening when the Moreška sword dance is performed. Pair dinner with a bottle of Grk from the sandy Lumbarda vineyards down the coast.

Things to do

Catch the Moreška sword dance on a Monday or Thursday night in season

Haul yourself up the St Mark's belfry for the rooftop view

Walk the herringbone lanes once the day ferries have cleared out

Order a bottle of Grk, the white grown on Lumbarda's sandy plots

Mooring tip

The ACI marina on the eastern side of the peninsula is the reliable, all-weather berth with lazy lines. The western town quay is more central but exposed to the afternoon Maestral, so take it only in settled conditions.

Jelsa
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Day 11

Korčula → Jelsa

Jelsa is where you go when you've had enough of the Hvar Town scene. It's a working town on the island's north coast, wrapped around a green harbour, and it gets on with growing lavender, olives and wine rather than chasing yachts. Berth stern-to on the town quay with your own anchor, where the mud and sand give a good grip, or take the small marina on the eastern side if you'd rather have lazy lines. The land behind town is the real draw. The Stari Grad Plain, a Greek field system still farmed after twenty-four centuries, carries UNESCO status and makes for a fine walk or ride. Cycle the coast road west to Vrboska and its little bridged canal, climb to the Tor watchtower for the channel view, and pour a glass of Bogdanjuša, the local white that barely leaves the island.

Things to do

Wander into the Stari Grad Plain, worked on the same Greek grid for 24 centuries

Freewheel the coast road over to canal-cut Vrboska

Climb up to the Tor watchtower and look out over the channel

Ask for a glass of Bogdanjuša, the white that rarely leaves Hvar

Mooring tip

Lie stern-to at the Jelsa town quay on your own anchor; the mud-and-sand seabed grips well, water and power laid on for a small charge. Prefer laid lines? The little marina on the bay's east side takes you instead.

lucice
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Day 12

Jelsa → Lučice Bay (Brač)

Ten miles is barely a morning's work, so there's no rush leaving Jelsa. Lučice lies just east of Pučišća on Brač's north coast, a chain of small linked coves hemmed by pale cliffs and pine, with not a single house on the shore. Two seasonal beach restaurants operate here in summer and keep a few buoys for guests. The seabed is that bright Brač limestone again, and on a calm day you can see twenty metres down to it. This is a swimming and snorkelling stop more than a sightseeing one. Paddle the shoreline at first light, then dinghy the short way into Pučišća to watch the stonemasons work the same white rock that built palaces up and down the coast. The coves cover you from north through east but stand open to the south, so pick your night by the forecast.

Things to do

Drop into water clear enough to count the stones twenty metres down

Tie onto a beach-restaurant buoy in one of the linked coves

Nip round to Pučišća and watch the masons cut white Brač stone

Take the paddleboard along the cliffs while the light is still soft

Mooring tip

Lučice's two seasonal beach restaurants keep a handful of buoys, secured by eating ashore. The coves shelter you from north through east but lie open to the south, so avoid an overnight here if a southerly is on the way.

Maslinica
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Day 13

Lučice Bay → Maslinica

Maslinica sits at the western end of Šolta, and its harbour is one of the prettiest on this stretch, an S-shaped inlet tucked behind a screen of small islets that knock down anything from the west. Mooring splits two ways. The south side belongs to Martinis Marchi Marina, fifty berths on lazy lines beside a converted seventeenth-century palace that's now a hotel; the north side is the village quay, stern-to with your own anchor and a simpler affair. For all that Split sits just fifteen miles off, Šolta stays the sleepiest of the central Dalmatian islands, and it grows a grape you won't find elsewhere: Dobričić, an inky red locals call the darkest wine in Dalmatia, and a genetic parent of both Zinfandel and Plavac Mali. Dinghy across to Stipanska for a swim, or watch the sun go down behind the outer islets.

Things to do

Wander into the courtyard of the Martinis Marchi castle-hotel

Try Dobričić, the near-black Šolta red behind both Zinfandel and Plavac Mali

Run the dinghy over to Stipanska for a swim

Watch the sun drop behind the screen of outer islets

Mooring tip

You have two choices here. To the south, Martinis Marchi Marina keeps fifty lazy-line berths and accepts advance booking; the north-side village quay is stern-to on your own anchor. Those islets keep the bay settled right across the compass's western half.

Rogoznica
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Day 14

Maslinica → Rogoznica

The last leg is a gentle fifteen miles, tracking past the south coast of Šolta and the Drvenik islands you left behind on day one. Most charters want the boat back at Marina Frapa by nine on Saturday morning, so the smart move is to close the distance the evening before or leave Maslinica early. Come in with fuel topped up, holding tanks pumped out, decks rinsed and the inventory squared away; it makes the handover quick and the deposit comes back cleanly. If you land with time to spare, walk out to the Dragon's Eye, the strange sinkhole lake on the tip of the Rogoznica peninsula, connected to the sea underground and steeped in local legend. A long lunch at the marina restaurant is a fair way to close out two weeks.

Things to do

Square away fuel, tanks and decks before the Saturday handover

Stroll out to the Dragon's Eye, the eerie sinkhole lake on the peninsula

Round it all off with a long lunch at the marina restaurant

Poke through the old quarter of Rogoznica town

Mooring tip

Bring the boat back into Marina Frapa as your charter contract requires, usually by nine on Saturday morning. If the paperwork calls for a night-before return, plan to be alongside by late afternoon Friday to beat the weekend queue at the fuel dock.

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