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

Rogoznica via National park Kornati.

Seven days from Rogoznica through the Šibenik islands to Krka's waterfalls, Telašćica and the Kornati archipelago, then home for the Saturday handover.

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Zlarin
Day 1

Rogoznica → Zlarin

Fifteen miles north from Marina Frapa to car-free Zlarin, the Šibenik islands' red-coral village, with a quiet quay under the cypresses.

Distance

12 NM

Sailing

~2.4h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Rogoznica

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Day 1 / 7
Zlarin
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Day 1

Rogoznica → Zlarin

Marina Frapa sits on the south side of the Rogoznica peninsula, ten piers deep and about as sheltered as any base on this stretch of coast. Fuel up, take the lines, and point the bow north. It's roughly fifteen miles of open water before you slip into the Šibenik island group and pick up Zlarin. The island runs on coral. Divers here have worked the deep red-coral beds offshore since medieval times, and the trade still shapes the village and its little museum. Tie stern-to along the south side of the 140-metre pier, where the central berths carry water and power for a small fee. The bay holds well in a westerly but opens to the southeast, so read the evening forecast before you settle. We usually eat ashore at Konoba Prslika.

Things to do

Tour the Zlarin coral museum on the square

Dinner at Konoba Prslika or Restoran Koralj

Swim off the rocks south of the village

Walk the pine and cypress paths inland

Buy handmade coral jewellery from a workshop

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the south side of the pier; the central berths carry water and power, the outer ones don't. Shelter is good from W and NW, but the quay turns uncomfortable in a southeasterly, so arriving early lets you pick a spot before the afternoon boats crowd in.

Krka
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Day 2

Zlarin → Skradin, NP Krka

From Zlarin it's a short twelve miles, but the character changes completely. You round Šibenik old town, pass under the bridge with its 49 metres of clearance, and motor into the freshwater reach of the Krka. Sailing is banned above the river mouth, so it's engine-on at displacement speed the rest of the way to ACI Marina Skradin. The marina sits two miles below the falls; buy park entry at the seawall kiosk, then catch the national-park launch that shuttles up to Skradinski Buk every half hour in season. Seventeen travertine steps drop the river forty-odd metres, and a boardwalk loops both banks. Back in town, order the Skradin risotto, a beef and saffron affair the locals stir for the best part of a day. Prefer the walk? A 3.4-kilometre canyon path reaches the falls on foot.

Things to do

Ride the park launch to Skradinski Buk

Loop the boardwalks on both riverbanks

Order Skradin risotto in the old town

Walk the 3.4 km canyon path to the falls

Take the upstream boat to Visovac island

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Skradin has laid lines on every berth, full services and a fuel pontoon by the entrance. Coming up from the river mouth, budget about ninety minutes at displacement speed, and call ahead for July and August when the freshwater berths book out fast.

Kaprije
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Day 3

Skradin → Kaprije

Retrace the freshwater reach, clear the river mouth, and turn southwest for Kaprije. All told it works out around fifteen miles, most of them easy once you're back in open water. This is a small place: one village, roughly 140 people, no cars, a shop and a post office and a couple of bars. Walk it end to end in an hour and a half. The path climbs to a little chapel on the island's spine, and from up there the whole Kornati cluster lays out on the horizon. Tie stern-to on the village quay, where the inside of the jetty holds ten or twelve boats on laid lines. Water reaches the central berths but there's no shore power, so charge up before you arrive. Konoba Kunjka does the fish, with Babić red from the Primošten terraces to go beside it.

Things to do

Climb to the hilltop chapel for Kornati views

Fish supper at family-run Konoba Kunjka

Swim off the rocks south of the harbour

Try local Babić red at the quay

Wander the olive groves and old vineyards

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the inside of the concrete jetty, laid lines for ten or twelve boats; water on the central berths but no power. The harbour is snug in anything from S through W, though a NE Bora sends swell straight in, so treat it as a fair-weather stop.

Telascica
4
Day 4

Kaprije → Telaščica Bay

Telašćica bites a deep bay into the foot of Dugi Otok, fourteen miles northwest of Kaprije. It's one of the largest natural harbours in the Adriatic and about the safest, folded so far into the island that wind barely reaches you. A ranger comes round to the buoys; the park fee is separate from Kornati and you settle it on the water. Two things pull people ashore. The Mir salt lake sits a short walk over the ridge, cut off from the sea and warm enough to swim in weeks before the open water is. Round on the seaward side, the land drops away at Grpašćak, a wall of rock 160 metres tall with a footpath running its edge to an old lookout. Stay aboard after dark and the cicadas take over.

Things to do

Swim the warm Mir salt lake over the ridge

Hike the Grpašćak clifftop trail and lookout

Pay the ranger and pick up a buoy

Snorkel the sheltered eastern shore

Listen to the cicadas from the deck

Mooring tip

A park buoy is compulsory here, paid to the ranger on his rounds, and the fee covers park entry too. There are around thirty buoys in the Mir arm; the bay lies dead calm in any wind, so this is the one night on the route you can count on a still deck.

Kornati
5
Day 5

Telaščica Bay → NP Kornati, Piškera

Ten miles south drops you into the heart of the Kornati, that maze of stone islands with almost nothing green on them. ACI Marina Piškera sits on Panitula Vela, open April to October, with roughly 120 to 150 berths on laid lines and a single restaurant perched on the rocks above. A berth includes park entry, but it's cheaper bought online or in advance, so sort it before you arrive. Once you're tied up, the afternoon is yours. Take the tender across to the Piškera–Lavsa channel for the clearest snorkelling of the week, or run the boat down to the park's southern rim, where Mana and Kornat present eighty-metre walls of bare karst to the open sea. No village noise out here, just rock and water and the marina lights.

Things to do

Snorkel the channel between Piškera and Lavsa

Sail the sheer cliffs of Mana and Kornat

Dinner at the rock-top marina restaurant

Buy park entry online before you arrive

Walk the bare karst ridge of Panitula Vela

Mooring tip

Book ACI Piškera online for July and August; it's the only marina inside the park and it fills. If you'd rather anchor, five bays within the boundary allow it overnight: Lavsa, Lojena, Vrulje, Stiniva and Statival. Anywhere else the rangers will move you on.

Murter
6
Day 6

Piškera → Jezera (Murter)

Twelve miles east and you're back among people. Murter is the nearest lived-in island to the Kornati, close enough that many of the park's boats are owned in its villages, and it joins the mainland by a small swing bridge at Tisno. ACI Marina Jezera runs along the south coast with laid lines, full services and fuel by the entrance. Off the boat, it's an easy afternoon. Walk over to the salt pans at Tisno, Roman in origin and still worked, or take the dinghy round to Slanica for a swim on the sandy south shore. Betina, next door, keeps a maritime museum and a living tradition of wooden boatbuilding worth an hour of anyone's time. Dinner ashore is pašticada, beef braised slow in red wine and prunes, the Dalmatian Sunday dish.

Things to do

Swim the sandy shallows at Slanica beach

See the working Roman salt pans at Tisno

Visit Betina's boatbuilding maritime museum

Order pašticada at a Jezera konoba

Taste Murter olive oil on the quay

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Jezera is the all-weather choice on this stretch, laid lines throughout and a fuel berth at the mouth. It's well tucked from most directions; on a settled night you could lie at anchor off Slanica instead, but the marina is the safe call before a long final leg.

Rogoznica
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Day 7

Jezera (Murter) → Rogoznica

The longest leg of the week, twenty miles back down to Rogoznica, so we usually slip the lines by nine. The handover is the standard Saturday drill: boat on the base berth, tanks pumped, fuel topped, decks rinsed and the inventory checked off before the manager comes down. You'll pass Primošten on the way down; leave a little slack in the schedule and Raduča beach makes a last swim before the base. Marina Frapa folds into a deep, cliff-ringed bay that shrugs off Bora, Jugo and the afternoon maestral alike, which is why so many charters begin and end here. With the boat signed off, walk the peninsula to the Dragon's Eye, a saltwater lake trapped in the rock, or stretch a long lunch at the marina hotel. Split airport is about an hour north for the run home.

Things to do

Final swim at Primošten's Raduča beach

Walk the peninsula to the Dragon's Eye lake

Long lunch at the Marina Frapa hotel

Top fuel and pump out before inspection

Stroll Rogoznica's small old quarter

Mooring tip

Come back into Marina Frapa as your contract states; the base manager will point you to a slot. The Saturday window is tight, usually 08:00 to 09:00, so if the paperwork calls for a night-before return, aim to be alongside by late Friday afternoon rather than pushing it in the dark.

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