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

Šibenik via Dubrovnik & 14 Days.

Sail two weeks round-trip from Šibenik to Dubrovnik via Brač, Hvar, Vis, Lastovo, Mljet and Korčula, with anchorage, konoba and mooring notes.

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Veli Drvenik
Day 1

Šibenik → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

A 25-mile hop southeast to open the trip: down through the St. Anthony narrows below Šibenik and out to the sand-floored swim anchorage at Krknjaši, between the two Drvenik islands.

Distance

20 NM

Sailing

~4h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

14 days

Departure

Šibenik

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Veli Drvenik
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Day 1

Šibenik → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

The first leg is really a shakedown. You drop lines at ACI Marina Šibenik, run down the river to the St. Anthony channel, a rock-cut gap barely 600 metres wide where the current can push either way, then out past Zlarin into open water. From there it's a straight reach southeast to Krknjaši, the shallow bowl between Veli and Mali Drvenik. Nobody comes here for the village — they come for the floor. Pale sand sits at three to six metres and the holding is excellent, so the anchor bites first time and the water turns the colour of a swimming pool. Three small tavernas on the Drvenik side lay free buoys for dinner guests, though most crews just hook into the sand. A quiet night, sails trimmed, before the route turns properly south.

Things to do

Anchor on the sand floor in 4–6 m

Walk the headland loop above Krknjaši

Order grilled fish at a Drvenik taverna

Practise reefing in the open-channel breeze

Watch the sun drop over the open Adriatic

Mooring tip

Anchor in 4–6 m on first-class sand holding, or pick up a taverna buoy if you're eating ashore. The bowl is well sheltered except from the west and northwest; if a westerly above 18 knots is forecast, duck into ACI Marina Trogir two miles east for the night.

Milna
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Day 2

Veli Drvenik → Milna (Brač)

A short hop today, twelve miles east across two channels, which leaves the afternoon free. Milna curls a long way inland from Brač's western coast, and that geometry is the whole point: bura, jugo, maestral, none of them get a proper run at you once you're inside. The seventeenth-century church on the inner quay marks the old Venetian harbour, still the heart of the village. Go stern-to on the town quay with your own anchor for a small fee, water and power on the central stretch, or drop the hook in the outer bay and run a line to the rocks if the maestral fills in after lunch. Brač built Diocletian's Palace out of its white stone, and it cooks lamb slowly under the peka. Order it the moment you tie up; three hours later it's dinner.

Things to do

Order lamb under the peka on arrival

Find the 17th-century church on the inner quay

Run a stern line in the outer bay

Taste Brač olive oil at the co-op

Dinghy north to Bobovišća for a swim

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the town quay with your own anchor, small harbour fee, water and power mid-quay. The outer bay takes a free anchor with a line ashore. Milna is open only to the southwest and west; if the afternoon maestral pipes up past 15 knots the inner quay stays calm, and Bobovišća three miles north is the all-weather backup.

Palmižana
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Day 3

Milna → Palmižana (Hvar)

The Pakleni Islands are a low green chain strung off Hvar Town, fifteen miles southeast of Milna. Palmižana sits on the east side of Sv. Klement and is the one islet in the group with a marina, so the lazy-line berths fill fast in July and August; book online or plan to anchor. The main bay holds in five to ten metres over sand and weed, but it rolls once the maestral funnels through around two in the afternoon, so most crews slip round to Vinogradišće on the south side and pick up a buoy with a line ashore. Afternoons here have a rhythm: a wander through the Meneghello family's 1906 garden, a snorkel over the Roman amphorae off the western shore, dinner at one of the konobas along the bay. If the crew wants a late night, a water taxi runs across to Hvar Town in minutes.

Things to do

Snorkel the Roman amphora field offshore

Wander the Meneghello 1906 botanical garden

Pick up a buoy in Vinogradišće cove

Water-taxi across to Hvar Town at night

Walk the track over to Vlaka Bay

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Palmižana runs stern-to on lazy lines and books out for July and August, so reserve online. If it's full, take a buoy in Vinogradišće on the south side, sand and weed with a line ashore, and skip the main bay overnight once the southwesterly builds.

Komiza
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Day 4

Palmižana → Komiža (Vis)

Vis sits further out to sea than any other inhabited Croatian island, and Komiža, the fishing port on its western shore, is twenty miles southwest of the Pakleni chain. The island stayed a closed military zone until 1989, which is why it never grew a resort strip and still feels like itself. You can walk the whole town in a quarter of an hour: the fishing fleet along the eastern wall, the Fishermen's Museum in the old Venetian tower, konobas built around grilled sardines and the local Vugava white. Grab a spot on the breakwater quay before two in the afternoon in high season or you'll be left anchoring off. Dinner is easy to sort. Bako serves lobster from that morning's pots among the pines, and Jastožera sits right out over the water in a converted lobster trap. If the crew has legs left, the hike up Hum to Tito's wartime cave pays out the finest view in central Dalmatia.

Things to do

Hike Mount Hum to Tito's wartime cave

Eat lobster at Konoba Bako among the pines

Dine over the water at Jastožera

See the Fishermen's Museum in the Venetian tower

Order a glass of local Vugava white

Mooring tip

Berth stern-to with your own anchor on the breakwater quay, and arrive before 14:00 in July and August; the 20-odd laid moorings go early. Buoys sit on the east side in 6–8 m. The quay is open to southwest swell, so if that's forecast above 15 knots, run six miles north to fully sheltered Vis Town.

Vela Luka
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Day 5

Komiža → Vela Luka (Korčula)

The clock runs the day. Sunlight only lights the Blue Cave on Biševo to that electric blue between about nine and eleven, when the low angle drives light up through the underwater opening. Tie alongside the little concession quay outside, pay at the kiosk, and wait for one of the official tenders to run you in; forty minutes, in and out. On the way east it's worth ducking into the Green Cave at Ravnik, which you can enter in your own dinghy and usually have to yourself. By early afternoon the route settles into an eighteen-mile run to Vela Luka, at the sheltered western tip of Korčula. The bay is protected from north through east, the town has full services and a fuel pump at the western end, and dinner runs on žrnovski makaruni, the pasta they roll by hand here.

Things to do

Take the official tender into the Blue Cave

Dinghy into Ravnik's Green Cave yourself

Sail the south face of Vis heading east

Order žrnovski makaruni at a Vela Luka konoba

Stroll the Vela Luka waterfront at dusk

Mooring tip

Along Vela Luka's long town quay you go stern-to on your own anchor for a small fee, with water, power and fuel at the western end. The mud-and-sand holding is first-rate, and the bay shuts out north, northeast and east, so nights stay calm.

Zaklopatica
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Day 6

Vela Luka → Lastovo (Zaklopatica Bay)

Lastovo sits far enough offshore that the crowds never found it, fourteen miles south of Vela Luka and a Nature Park in its own right. After dark the sky over it goes as black as anywhere in the Adriatic. Zaklopatica is where boats spend the night: a U-shaped notch in the north coast with a low islet across the mouth that knocks down any swell. Four family konobas ring the bay, Augusta Insula, Santor, Triton and Aragosta, and each keeps a line of free buoys for guests who eat ashore, so you moor, dinghy in, and pick your table. Skip anchoring on the bottom; it's seagrass and they'd rather you didn't. The kitchens lean on Lastovo lobster and šporki makaruli, a rich stew of beef and macaroni. Stay on deck after dinner. On a clear night the Milky Way stands straight overhead before midnight.

Things to do

Take a konoba buoy at Konoba Augusta Insula

Order Lastovo lobster or šporki makaruli

Walk inland to Lastovo's chimney-stack houses

Snorkel the islet across the bay mouth

Stay up for the Milky Way overhead

Mooring tip

Zaklopatica's konobas each hang free buoys, so book a table on arrival and that locks your mooring. There are fifteen or so buoys plus quay space, but Zaklopatica is poor in a bora. If a strong southeasterly is forecast, move four miles south through the channel to Skrivena Luka.

Mljet
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Day 7

Lastovo → Mljet (Polače)

Mljet's north coast folds inward at Polače, twenty-two miles northeast, and the slot stays hidden until you're nearly inside it. It's the western gate to the national park and one of the most protected overnights on the south coast, shut off from north, northeast, east and southeast. Pick up a green park buoy, pay the ranger at the waterfront kiosk (the fee covers park entry for the crew), or take a stern-to slot at the village pontoon. A fourth-century Roman palace stands a few metres back from the water, walls still up. A half-hour walk from the bay reaches Veliko Jezero, the bigger of the island's two salt lakes, where a small park boat ferries out to the Benedictine monastery on its own islet. The lake water is warmer than the sea and worth the swim.

Things to do

Pick up a park buoy and pay the ranger

Walk the 4th-century Roman palace on the shore

Take the park boat to St. Mary's monastery

Hike the lake loop through the park

Swim the warm water of Veliko Jezero

Mooring tip

Polače runs on paid national-park buoys, around €40 a night in 2025 with crew park entry included; pay the ranger when you arrive. It's among the best-sheltered bays on the south coast, so it's the safe pick if the forecast looks unsettled.

Dubrovnik
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Day 8

Mljet → Dubrovnik

Day eight is Dubrovnik, though not the Dubrovnik of the postcards. Charter boats overnight at ACI Marina Dubrovnik in Komolac, eight kilometres inland up the Rijeka Dubrovačka, a fjord-like estuary with lazy lines, fuel and full services on every berth. The Old Port on the seafront is beautiful and takes daytime visitors only; it's exposed to the south and packed with tour tenders all season, so it's a stop, not a berth. From the marina, Bus 1A or a taxi has you at the Pile Gate in about a quarter of an hour. Do the walls first, before the cruise crowds and the afternoon heat: a mile and a bit of circuit, ninety minutes at a steady pace, the best angle on the whole city. Later, end the night at Buža, the bar wedged into the rocks below the southern wall.

Things to do

Walk the full Old City wall circuit early

Ride the cable car up Mount Srđ

Eat on a Prijeko side street off the Stradun

See the Rector's Palace and Franciscan cloister

Drink at Buža bar on the sea rocks

Mooring tip

For an overnight, ACI Marina Dubrovnik up at Komolac is really the only call — lazy lines, full services, reserve early in season. The Old Port takes daytime visits only. From the marina pontoon, allow about half an hour to the Pile Gate on Bus 1A or by taxi.

Okuklje
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Day 9

Dubrovnik → Okuklje (Mljet)

Okuklje sits back up the southeast coast of Mljet, this time beyond the park line, so there's nothing to pay. It's a tight, almost round bay that takes maybe twenty boats, and the narrow mouth blocks nearly everything the sea throws at it; holding is superb in five to ten metres of mud. Three family konobas run the shore, each with its own free buoys for guests, so the drill is simple: grab a buoy, dinghy in, book a table, done. Black risotto is the thing to order, crni rižot cooked dark with cuttlefish ink and whatever came in that day. The hills stand a hundred metres straight up on three sides, which means the wind quits at sunset no matter what's blowing outside. It's the quietest night on the route.

Things to do

Grab a free konoba buoy and 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 with no town noise at all

Mooring tip

Free konoba buoys again; a dinner booking secures yours. Okuklje is shut off from north, east and south, and only a northwesterly above 18 knots pushes any real swell through the entrance, so it's a dependable overnight.

Korcula
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Day 10

Okuklje → Korčula Town

You can pick Korčula out from a long way off — a wedge of red roofs on a low spit, one campanile above them, the old walls dropping sheer to the water on three sides. The channel run up from Okuklje is fifteen miles northwest. ACI Marina Korčula on the eastern side of the peninsula has full services and lazy lines; the town quay on the western side takes a handful of stern-to boats with their own anchor for a fee, but it's exposed to the maestral and gets rolly after two. The old town is tiny, laid out in a herringbone of lanes designed to trap the breeze and shed the wind. Climb St. Mark's bell tower for the channel view, look in on the disputed Marco Polo house, walk the Land Gate steps. On Monday and Thursday evenings the Moreška sword dance plays out at nine, blades and all. Pour a glass of Grk, the white grape from nearby Lumbarda.

Things to do

Watch the Moreška sword dance at 21:00

Climb the bell tower of St. Mark's Cathedral

Walk the lanes after the day-ferries leave

Look in on the disputed Marco Polo house

Drink Grk white from nearby Lumbarda

Mooring tip

On the east side, ACI Marina Korčula covers any weather — full services, laid lines. Its western town quay is stern-to on your own anchor but faces the maestral, so reckon on roll past 14:00 and choose the marina whenever wind threatens.

Jelsa
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Day 11

Korčula → Jelsa (Hvar)

Jelsa is Hvar's third town, and nothing like the first. It sits on the north coast, twenty-three miles northwest across the channel from Korčula. The town quay takes stern-to with your own anchor for a fee, good holding in mud and sand, and a small marina on the east side handles boats that want lazy lines. This is the farming heart of the island. The lavender belt still runs commercial rows up the road toward Vrboska and Stari Grad, cut each July, and the back-lane konobas pour the local Bogdanjuša white. Two good ways to spend the afternoon: cycle the three coastal miles to Vrboska and its canal-bridged old centre, or walk inland across the Stari Grad Plain, a UNESCO site and one of the oldest farmed landscapes in Europe, its field walls laid out by Greek colonists.

Things to do

Cycle the coast road to Vrboska's canals

Walk the UNESCO Stari Grad Plain inland

Order Bogdanjuša white at a back-lane konoba

Buy Hvar lavender oil from a grower

Climb to the Tor watchtower above town

Mooring tip

Take the Jelsa town quay stern-to on your own hook for a small fee, water and power at mid-quay. The bay is well shielded across south, southeast and southwest; a small east-side marina lays lines if you would sooner skip the anchor.

lucice
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Day 12

Jelsa → Lučice Bay (Brač)

Lučice notches into Brač's south coast just east of Pučišća, a ten-mile skip north over the channel. There's no town here at all, just white limestone cliffs, pine, and two seasonal beach restaurants that lay free buoys for guests. The bay forks into two pine-hugged lobes, and the water is the reason you come: Brač's pale stone floor throws visibility out to twenty metres on a still summer day, so the snorkelling is the best you'll get. Konoba Dupini runs the water's edge, sixteen buoys and grilled fish straight off Šime's boat, octopus and meat under the bell, a jug of Plavac Mali. Take the dinghy the last mile into Pučišća to see the stonemasons' yards, where the school still cuts white Brač stone by hand.

Things to do

Pick up a free buoy off Konoba Dupini

Snorkel the pale limestone floor, 20 m clear

Eat grilled fish and Plavac Mali ashore

Dinghy into Pučišća's stonemason yards

Paddle the headland at first light

Mooring tip

Free restaurant buoys at Lučice, secured by eating ashore; if they're taken you can anchor in 8–12 m over sand and weed. The lobes shelter from north, northeast and east but stand open to the south, so watch for a southerly and move on if one's building.

Maslinica
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Day 13

Lučice Bay → Maslinica (Šolta)

Maslinica curls into an S at the western tip of Šolta, the one genuine harbour on the island. The leg up from Lučice is fourteen miles northwest. A row of islets, Polebrnjak, Stipanska and the rest, sits across the entrance and soaks up whatever the open Adriatic sends in, so it's calm inside almost regardless. Mooring splits two ways: Martinis Marchi Marina on the south side, lazy lines with an eighteenth-century baroque castle turned hotel on the quay, or the village quay opposite, stern-to with your own anchor for a modest fee. Šolta is the island closest to Split, fifteen miles off, and also the sleepiest of the central bunch. The square konobas run on Šoltansko olive oil and Dobričić, the island's own red grape. A dinghy across to Stipanska buys you a last clean swim.

Things to do

Walk into the Martinis Marchi castle courtyard

Order Dobričić, Šolta's own red grape

Dinghy to Stipanska island for a swim

Buy Šoltansko olive oil in the village

Watch sunset from Polebrnjak at the mouth

Mooring tip

South-side Martinis Marchi Marina runs full services and laid lines; reserve in season. Facing it, the cheaper village quay is stern-to on your own hook. A line of islets across the mouth screens the bay across the arc from south through southwest and west to northwest.

Šibenik
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Day 14

Maslinica → Šibenik

Maslinica to the Šibenik base is the longest hop of the fortnight, thirty miles and all of it northwest. Saturday handover rules apply, so the boat needs to be alongside by nine with the fuel topped, tanks pumped out, decks rinsed and inventory checked. That means an early line-off. The good news is the direction: the prevailing summer breeze usually sits fair on this heading, and the buoyed channel into the river estuary is easy to read even tired. Most Šibenik-based boats lie either at ACI Marina Šibenik, in the inner harbour within walking distance of St. James' Cathedral, or at D-Marin Mandalina across the estuary with full yard services. If the schedule allows, steal one more swim off the south coast of Brač or Šolta on the way north before the season closes out.

Things to do

Top up fuel and pump out before nine

Walk to UNESCO-listed St. James' Cathedral

Climb to St. Michael's fortress over town

Grab a last swim off south Brač

Take a long lunch on the Šibenik Riva

Mooring tip

Return to whichever base is on your charter contract, ACI Marina Šibenik or D-Marin Mandalina. The Saturday handover window is tight, usually 08:00–09:00, so if your contract asks for a night-before return, aim to be alongside by around 17:00 on Friday.

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