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

Skradin via Dugi otok.

A seven-day loop from Skradin: down the Krka, through the Šibenik islands into Kornati and Telašćica, then back upriver. Anchorages and mooring notes.

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Zlarin
Day 1

Skradin → Zlarin Island

A gentle fifteen miles down the Krka and past Šibenik to a car-free coral island where one working village faces the sea.

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

Skradin

Sailing area

Sibenik

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Day 1 / 7
Zlarin
1
Day 1

Skradin → Zlarin Island

Cast off from ACI Marina Skradin and you spend the first hour idling down the freshwater Krka at five knots, past mussel lines and the walls of Šibenik old town. The St. Anthony channel funnels you out under the road bridge, then it opens up for the short hop south to Zlarin. No cars here, just one village strung along the eastern shore. What made the place was red coral: divers have been going down for it here the best part of seven hundred years, and a one-room museum on the square lays the whole trade out. We usually take the south side of the long pier, stern-to with our own anchor, water and power on the berths. Dinner is whatever came up in the nets that morning, washed down with a jug of local Babić.

Things to do

See the coral trade at Zlarin's museum

Order the day's catch at Konoba Ivana

Swim off the rocks south of the harbour

Browse a village coral-jewellery workshop

Walk the pine paths inland from the village

Mooring tip

Take the south side of the village pier, stern-to on your own anchor, with water and power laid on. The harbour holds well against anything off the land (W, NW or N) but lies open to a SE blow; if that fills in, motor back into the Šibenik estuary for cover.

Ravni Žakan
2
Day 2

Zlarin → Ravni Žakan

The passage west runs about fifteen miles into the southern reaches of Kornati National Park. Pay the park fee online before you go; the ranger kiosk gets busy in season. Ravni Žakan is a low, uninhabited islet with a single konoba above the water and a sturdy breakwater where guests who eat ashore can lie stern-to with water and power. The whole place walks end to end in half an hour, up to a spine that opens the horizon in every direction. Save the mask and fins for the northwest shore. The seabed there steps down through sand and broken rock to about fifteen metres, clear as gin, and no other stop all week comes close. After the konoba closes there is nothing but the slap of water on the hull and, on a clear night, the Milky Way smeared across the sky.

Things to do

Book the park ticket online before arrival

Eat grilled fish at Konoba Žakan

Snorkel the northwest shore over sand and rock

Walk the half-hour spine for the panorama

Watch the Milky Way from the cockpit

Mooring tip

Berths at Ravni Žakan are few and tied to the konoba, so plan to arrive by early afternoon in July and August, or call ahead. Overnight anchoring inside the park is restricted to a short list of licensed bays, so the breakwater is your surest bet here.

Telascica
3
Day 3

Ravni Žakan → Telašćica

Twelve miles up the coast brings you onto the southern tip of Dugi Otok and into Telašćica, one of the safest natural harbours on this coast. This is a separate nature park, so budget a second entry fee; the rangers come round in a launch to collect it and take your rubbish. Pick up one of the roughly thirty buoys in the inner bay. Two walks are worth the legs. A path leads over to Lake Mir, a salt lake that runs several degrees warmer than the sea and rises and falls with the moon. The other climbs to the Grpašćak lookout, a 160-metre wall of rock with the whole southern archipelago laid out under your boots. Come evening the cicadas take over and the anchorage falls dead calm.

Things to do

Swim the warm water of Lake Mir

Climb to the Grpašćak cliff lookout

Pay the ranger from your buoy

Snorkel the sheltered eastern shore

Listen for cicadas at dusk on deck

Mooring tip

The inner bay carries around thirty park buoys; pick one up and settle the fee with the ranger, which covers park entry. The bay stays calm in almost any wind, which makes it one of the most dependable overnight stops on the route.

Žut
4
Day 4

Telašćica → Žut Island

A short eight-mile reach carries you back over the park boundary to Žut. Only Kornat outsizes it in the whole park, and nobody lives on it year-round. What you get instead is a run of deep bays along the south coast, several with a family konoba on the rocks and free buoys for anyone who books a table. Marina Žut at Pristanišće is the option with lazy lines and water if you would rather have services. Ashore it's stone and little else: karst ridges seamed with old dry-stone walls and a handful of waymarked paths, good for stretching the legs before dinner. Order the grilled fish and a bottle of Pošip, and watch the light go long over the bare stone. On the way in, the southern cliffs of Kornat make a fine backdrop.

Things to do

Take a free konoba buoy in a south-coast bay

Order grilled fish with a Pošip white

Walk the dry-stone trails along the ridge

Snorkel the clear water off the east coast

Sail beneath the southern cliffs of Kornat

Mooring tip

The south-coast konoba bays lay free buoys for guests who dine ashore; Marina Žut at Pristanišće has lazy lines and water if you want full services. Anchoring on the seabed is regulated inside the park, so plan on a buoy or a berth rather than dropping the hook.

Murter
5
Day 5

Žut → Murter Island

Twelve miles east and you leave the national park behind, back to inhabited coast at Murter. Crews have used it as their jumping-off point for the Kornati for generations. Strictly it's a peninsula: a low bridge at Tisno hooks it back to the mainland, near enough to walk over. Betina is where most boats tie up, a working fishing port where the town quay takes you stern-to on your own hook, with water and power on the middle berths. The village has kept its trade in wooden boatbuilding alive for four hundred years, and the little maritime museum tells that story well. Ashore, wander over to the old salt pans at Tisno, worked since Roman times and still producing, or swim off Slanica on the south coast. The konobas run on local fish, Pag cheese and Murter olive oil, with a Babić red to finish. ACI Marina Jezera is the all-weather fallback.

Things to do

See the wooden-boat museum in Betina

Walk the Roman-era salt pans at Tisno

Swim at Slanica beach on the south coast

Taste Pag cheese and Murter olive oil

Order pašticada at a Betina konoba

Mooring tip

Betina town quay is stern-to on your own anchor, with water and power on the central berths and a short walk to the konobas. If the forecast turns, ACI Marina Jezera nearby has lazy lines and full services in any wind.

Tribunj
6
Day 6

Murter → Tribunj

Only six miles today, southeast to Tribunj on the mainland just north of Vodice, so there is no rush to leave. The marina sits on the south side of the village with lazy lines, water and power on every berth and a fuel pontoon by the entrance, handy for topping up before the run home. The old town is the reason to stop: a knot of lanes and courtyards out on its own islet, reached by one stone footbridge, fig trees leaning over the walls and a couple of good konobas tucked in among them. Try the crni rižot, squid-ink risotto black as tar, at Konoba Bepo. It's a snug enough bay in most winds; put a southerly in and you'll feel some swell work across the berths. On summer evenings you may catch a klapa group singing on the harbour wall, unaccompanied and unannounced.

Things to do

Wander the islet old town over the stone bridge

Order crni rižot at Konoba Bepo

Swim at Čista Bay east of the marina

Catch klapa singing on the harbour wall

Pick up local Vodice olive oil

Mooring tip

The marina on the south side of Tribunj has lazy lines, full services and fuel at the entrance; book ahead in high season. The bay is well protected in most directions, with only a southerly bringing any swell onto the berths.

Krka
7
Day 7

Tribunj → Skradin

The run home is twelve miles, south into the Šibenik estuary then up the river to ACI Marina Skradin. Plan the morning around a nine o'clock handover on Saturday: decks hosed off, holding tanks emptied, fuel topped up and the inventory back where it started. The approach is one of the more memorable on the coast. You come in past the St. Nicholas fortress on its rock at the mouth, duck under the Šibenik bridge in the St. Anthony narrows, run below the old town, and then the river closes in green and deep between the hills the whole way to the pontoons. Keep the speed down; the whole river is a five-knot limit past the mussel lines. With an hour to spare before handover, you can still hop the park boat up to Skradinski Buk for one more dip under the falls. A plate of Skradin risotto sends you off.

Things to do

Ride the park ferry to Skradinski Buk falls

Swim below the waterfalls one last time

Fuel and pump out before the 09:00 handover

Order slow-cooked Skradin risotto ashore

Walk the medieval streets behind the marina

Mooring tip

Return into ACI Marina Skradin as your contract directs; the base team will point you to a slot. The Saturday window is tight, usually eight to nine, so if your paperwork asks for a Friday-night return, be back on the river by late afternoon.

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