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Šibenik via Kornati & Molat.

A week-long sail from Šibenik through Kornati and Telašćica to the quiet outer islands of Iž, Molat and Ugljan, with mooring notes for every night.

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Kaprije
Day 1

Šibenik → Kaprije

Car-free Kaprije lies fifteen miles west, out past the fortress channel: one quiet village around a working harbour and the cleanest swimming in the Šibenik islands.

Distance

8 NM

Sailing

~1.6h at 5 kn

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Route at a glance

Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Šibenik

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Day 1 / 7
Kaprije
1
Day 1

Šibenik → Kaprije

You leave the marina and thread down the St. Anthony channel, under the bridge and past the low-lying salt-farmers' island of Krapanj, before the water opens west toward Kaprije. The island runs on caper plants and quiet; there are no cars, and the single village folds around its harbour on the eastern shore. We usually tie stern-to on the village quay, own anchor down, water on the central berths but nothing for shore power. Depths hold at five to six metres with decent sand-and-weed holding. Afternoon is for the footpath inland to the chapel on the ridge, where the whole Kornati cluster spreads out offshore. Dinner is grilled fish and a glass of Babić, the dark local red from the Šibenik hills. There's no wrong konoba on Kaprije; ask on the quay which one landed fish that day.

Things to do

Walk the ridge path to the hilltop chapel

Order grilled fish at a Kaprije konoba

Swim off the rocks south of the village

Take the dinghy to the islets at the bay entrance

Sample Babić red at a quayside table

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the village quay with your own anchor for a small fee; expect water on the central berths but no power. If the quay fills, pick up one of the roughly twenty buoys in the bay or anchor in six to eight metres; shelter is good from everything except a northeasterly.

Kornati
2
Day 2

Kaprije → Piškera (Kornati)

The run northwest carries you into the Kornati archipelago, close to ninety islands of bare stone with no residents, no fishing, and dry-stone walls climbing every ridge. The park charges a daily entry fee, cheaper if you buy it online before you arrive rather than at the kiosk. Your berth is ACI Marina Piškera, tucked in the channel behind Panitula Vela on the western rim of the park, with lazy lines, water, power and a single restaurant up on the rocks. Book ahead in July and August; the pontoons fill by mid-afternoon. Once tied up, take the dinghy across to snorkel the shallow channel toward Lavsa, or motor south to the crowns of Mana and Kornat where the cliffs fall eighty metres straight into the blue.

Things to do

Buy the park ticket online before arrival

Snorkel the channel between Piškera and Lavsa

Sail past the 80-metre cliffs of Mana

Eat at the marina's clifftop restaurant

Walk the karst spine of Panitula Vela

Mooring tip

ACI Piškera runs lazy lines on every berth, so book online for July and August when it fills early. Overnight anchoring inside the park is limited to a handful of licensed bays such as Lavsa, Lojena and Vrulje; rangers patrol and check tickets.

Telascica
3
Day 3

Piškera → Telašćica Bay

A short hop north brings you into Telašćica, a deep bay biting into the southern end of Dugi Otok, pine and grey cliff on one side, a scatter of smaller coves on the other. This is a nature park in its own right, with a separate fee and a rule that you pick up one of the park buoys for the night. Two things pull crews ashore. The first is Mir, a shallow salt lake a short walk from the bay that warms far quicker than the sea, so the swimming stays soft into the evening. The second is the Grpašćak lookout on the western wall, where the rock stands a sheer hundred and sixty metres above the water and the view runs clear across the outer Kornati. Stay aboard after dark for the cicadas and a genuinely still anchorage.

Things to do

Walk to the Mir salt lake for a warm swim

Hike the Grpašćak clifftop for the panorama

Pick up a park buoy and pay the ranger

Snorkel the sheltered eastern coves

Mooring tip

Telašćica is a park, so you take one of the marked buoys in the southern arm of the bay and pay the ranger, entry included. Shelter here is close to total in any wind, which makes it one of the safest overnight bays on the central coast.

Iž
4
Day 4

Telašćica → Veli Iž

Northeast across the Iž channel sits Veli Iž, the larger of the island's two villages and a place that has traded on clay for generations. The old craft still runs here; a small workshop off the square turns hand-thrown pots much as it did a century ago. Tie stern-to on the village quay with your anchor, or take a lazy-line berth at Marina Veli Iž on the southern side of the bay if you want power and a shower. The bay covers you from west, southwest and south, but a Bora lays straight in from the northeast. Afternoons go one of two ways. Climb the signed track to Korinjak at a hundred and sixty-eight metres for the long view over the archipelago, or stay down at sea level: swim off the rocks south of the bay, then eat pašticada at a konoba on the front.

Things to do

Visit the potter's workshop off the village square

Hike to Korinjak for the archipelago view

Sample local figs and olive oil at a small farm

Swim from the rocks south of the bay

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the village quay with your own anchor and a modest fee, or lazy lines and full services at Marina Veli Iž on the south side of the bay. The bay holds well in west through south winds; if a strong Bora is forecast from the northeast, the marina is the safer bet.

Molat
5
Day 5

Veli Iž → Molat

Molat sits out toward the open sea, a thin ridge of an island with three villages and space to breathe. Most crews come here precisely because it stays quiet; the yachts thin out and the coves go still. Zapuntel, on the eastern side, is the natural overnight. A dogleg breakwater shelters the little harbour, with mooring buoys laid in the bay in seven to eight metres and clean sand-and-weed holding if you'd rather anchor. Shore power isn't part of the deal, so top up water before you come. With the boat settled, follow the marked track up the spine to the overgrown remains of the wartime airstrip the Italian air force cut into the island, still readable in the scrub. Then swim off the rocks by the bay mouth while the light drops. Dinner is whatever came up that morning.

Things to do

Hike the spine to the wartime airstrip ruins

Pick up a buoy in Zapuntel Bay

Swim off the rocks at the bay mouth

Snorkel the rocky eastern shoreline by dinghy

Order grilled dentex at the village konoba

Mooring tip

Pick up one of the buoys in Zapuntel Bay in seven to eight metres, or anchor on sand-and-weed; the harbour quay is small and free but has no services. Cover is good from west through north; if the wind swings into the southeast, shift a couple of miles round to Brgulje.

Sutomišćica
6
Day 6

Molat → Sutomišćica Bay (Ugljan)

Ugljan is the green barrier island that screens Zadar from the open water, and locals call it the town's garden for the olive terraces and vineyards that cover it. Sutomišćica opens on the eastern side, a broad bay that stays calm in almost any weather. Olive Island Marina sits on the north shore, a small family-run place with lazy lines and full services; its restaurant does honest Dalmatian cooking if you don't feel like walking ashore. The village strings along the southern shore with a daytime pontoon and a few konobas on the front. In the afternoon, walk the headland path to the little chapel of St. Peter for the view back over the Zadar channel, or paddle out to the Sveti Petar islet just offshore for lunch on your own patch of rock.

Things to do

Walk to the St. Peter chapel for the channel view

Paddleboard out to Sveti Petar islet

Dinner at the marina restaurant on the north shore

Swim from the rocks on the bay's east side

Taste local olive oil from the Ugljan groves

Mooring tip

On the north shore, Olive Island Marina is your any-weather berth — lazy lines plus water and power all year. The south-side village pontoon is a daytime stop only, though the bay itself gives shelter from every quarter.

Šibenik
7
Day 7

Sutomišćica → Šibenik

The last leg is the longest, twenty-five miles southeast back to base, so we usually slip the lines by nine to leave room for one more swim. Saturday handover means the boat wants to be alongside early, gauge full, black-water pumped down, salt hosed off the deck and the gear checked against the list, so shape the day around it rather than against it. Vrgada makes the natural break on the way down; it's one of the few genuinely sandy islands on this coast, and the reddish beach on its southern side shelves gently into warm shallows. Anchor off in five to eight metres, swim, eat, then push on. From there it's into the Šibenik estuary, past the St. Nicholas fortress guarding the river mouth, and up the channel to your marina, a short walk from St. James' cathedral in the old town.

Things to do

Anchor off Vrgada's sandy south beach for a swim

Top up fuel and pump out before handover

Walk to St. James' Cathedral in the old town

See the St. Nicholas fortress at the river mouth

Climb to St. Michael's fortress over the old town

Mooring tip

Return into your booked Šibenik base, either ACI Marina Šibenik or D-Marin Mandalina, and aim to be alongside inside the 08:00–09:00 handover window. If your contract asks for a night-before return, get in by Friday evening rather than pushing the last miles at dawn.

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