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Kaštela via Dubrovnik & Kaštela (14 Days).

A 14-day round-trip yacht itinerary from Kaštela down to Dubrovnik and back, taking in Šolta, Vis, Lastovo, Mljet, Korčula and Hvar with mooring notes.

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Maslinica
Day 1

Kaštela → Maslinica (Šolta)

First leg is an easy one. Šolta lies just off Split but keeps to itself, and Maslinica on its western tip is the only harbour on the island worth the name, thirteen miles southwest of the base.

Distance

10 NM

Sailing

~2h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

14 days

Departure

Kaštela

Sailing area

Split

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Maslinica
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Day 1

Kaštela → Maslinica (Šolta)

We tend to slip out of Marina Kaštela around mid-morning and swing the bow southwest, Split falling away over the port rail as we settle onto the thirteen-mile line for Šolta. The entrance to Maslinica hides behind a scatter of low islets that flatten whatever the open Adriatic is throwing at the coast. Inside, the bay kinks back on itself under a wall of hills on the village side and holds well in four to eight metres of mud and sand. Two ways to spend the night: lazy lines and full service at Martinis Marchi, tucked beneath a castle first raised in 1708, or the village quay stern-to on your own hook for a few euros. Both put the brakes on the moment you are fast. Konoba Kamenar has stayed in one family across three generations, and the Dobričić red they pour barely makes it off the island.

Things to do

Sundowner on the Martinis Marchi castle terrace

Ask for the Dobričić red at Konoba Kamenar

Row over to Stipanska islet and swim

Grab a tin of Šoltansko olive oil in the village

Mooring tip

Book Martinis Marchi on the south side well ahead for July and August; it has the lazy lines and shore power. Prefer the village quay and you go stern-to on your own anchor for a small fee. The ring of islets across the mouth means the only wind that reaches you is a northerly, and those are rare in summer.

Milna
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Day 2

Maslinica → Milna (Brač)

Milna is a lunch stop and nothing grander, which is exactly what a fortnight afloat wants now and then. The crossing lands you at a slot in the western shore of Brač where a parish church from the sixteen-hundreds stands hard on the waterline and points you round into the inner basin. Go stern-to on your own anchor anywhere along the town wall, or hang back in the outer half in six to ten metres of sand with a line run to the rocks for when the Maestral shows up after lunch. The stone under your feet here built half of Split: Brač limestone went into Diocletian's Palace and plenty besides. Food is a single decision. Put the order in for the lamb peka before two, because you cannot hurry three hours over the coals, and swim off the transom while it cooks.

Things to do

Put the lamb peka on before 2pm, eat it at six

Stroll out to the parish church on the quay

Anchor the outer bay with a line to the rocks

Dinghy up to Bobovišća for a sunset swim

Mooring tip

The inner quay is stern-to on your own anchor, with water and power on the middle pontoon and a small fee to the harbourmaster. Most charter crews end up anchoring the outer half and running a line to the rocks, which costs nothing. When the afternoon Maestral pushes past fifteen knots the inner berths still sit quiet.

Palmizana
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Day 3

Milna → Palmižana (Hvar)

A low chain of pine-covered rock lies a couple of miles off the south side of Hvar Town, and that is the Pakleni. Sv. Klement is the big one at the western end, with Palmižana on its eastern flank holding the only berths in the group. That ACI marina packs out in high summer, so book online if you would rather pick up a lazy line than dig the anchor in. Come early afternoon the Maestral funnels straight into the main bay and starts it rolling; when it does, we shift south to Vinogradišće, where forty buoys and a line ashore under the pines keep things steady. The Meneghello family laid out a botanical garden here in 1906, and their kitchen still trades alongside Laganini and a scatter of smaller konobas. Ten minutes by water taxi puts you in Hvar Town if the evening asks for it.

Things to do

Snorkel the sunken Roman amphorae off the west shore

Poke around Meneghello's 1906 botanical garden

Grab a Vinogradišće buoy when ACI fills

Hop the water taxi to Hvar Town for dinner

Mooring tip

ACI Palmižana is stern-to on lazy lines, and the fairways run tight for a modern charter yacht, so reserve online for July and August. If it is full, or the main bay gets rolly on the afternoon westerly, move round to Vinogradišće and run a line ashore.

Komiza
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Day 4

Palmižana → Komiža (Vis)

No inhabited Croatian island sits further out than Vis, and getting there means twenty-three miles of open water off the Pakleni. The place was sealed off as a naval base under Yugoslavia right up to 1989, and you can still read that in the total absence of resort sprawl. Komiža curls around a bay under Mount Hum, fishing boats along the eastern side and a Venetian tower from the fifteen-hundreds watching the entrance. Get onto the inner quay before two if you can, because the good stern-to spots over sand and weed go early, and the outer wall takes any southwesterly swell straight on the nose overnight. Dinner is whatever the boats landed at dawn. Konoba Jastožera perches over the water in a converted lobster store, and the Vugava white in your glass grows on no other patch of earth.

Things to do

Eat lobster over the water at Konoba Jastožera

Hike Mount Hum to Tito's wartime cave

Look in on the Fishermen's Museum in the old tower

Order grilled anchovies with a glass of Vugava

Mooring tip

Take a stern-to spot on Komiža's inner quay on your own anchor over sand and weed, and get in before two in high season. The outer wall is exposed to southwesterly swell; if that is forecast above fifteen knots, run six miles north to the fully sheltered St. George Bay at Vis Town.

Vela luka
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Day 5

Komiža → Blue Cave (Biševo) → Green Cave (Ravnik) → Vela Luka (Korčula)

Everything today keys off where the sun is. The Blue Cave on Biševo only burns that deep ultramarine for a stretch mid-morning, so we are out of Komiža early and tied to the concession quay by the mouth. Your own dinghy stays put; the licensed boats run you in for a quick forty minutes, and the queue earns its keep. A short leg on brings you to Ravnik and the Green Cave, lit from a gap in the roof instead of below the surface, and here you take the tender straight in and mostly skip the crowd. Early afternoon the course bends eighteen miles southeast to Vela Luka, a deep harbour on the tail of Korčula with fuel, full services and mud that grabs the anchor first go. Dinner is žrnovski makaruni, rolled out by hand the slow way it is meant to be.

Things to do

Line up for the Blue Cave tender before 10:30

Nose the dinghy into Ravnik's Green Cave

Order žrnovski makaruni at a Vela Luka konoba

Walk the Vela Luka waterfront at dusk

Mooring tip

Vela Luka is stern-to on your own anchor along the town quay, with water, power and a fuel pump at the western end over excellent mud and sand. The bay shuts out everything from the north and east; only a strong southerly nudges any swell into the outer harbour, and the inner pontoon stays quiet.

Zaklopatica
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Day 6

Vela Luka → Lastovo (Zaklopatica)

Lastovo is a Nature Park and roughly the end of the line for the central Adriatic, which is the whole reason it holds onto its quiet through the season. Drop fourteen miles south from Vela Luka and the shore folds open at Zaklopatica, a bay bent like a horseshoe with a low islet lying across its throat to knock the swell down. Five family konobas work the water here, and each keeps a run of buoys it lends free to anyone eating ashore, so the deal writes itself: take a buoy, book the table under it, done for the night. Leave the seabed alone, though, because the seagrass gives poor holding and the park would sooner you did not. The kitchens run on lobster off the traps north of the island and šporki makaruli, a beef ragù cooked down slow over pasta. Do not turn in straight after dinner. Few places are left where the Milky Way reads this sharp.

Things to do

Trade dinner for a free konoba buoy

Order Lastovo lobster or šporki makaruli

Walk up to the Lastovo Town fumari chimneys

Stay on deck for the Milky Way

Mooring tip

The konoba buoys at Zaklopatica are free with a dinner booking, so confirm with the restaurant as you arrive. Holding on the bottom is poor over seagrass; if a southeasterly is forecast above fifteen knots, slip four miles south through the channel to the all-weather cover of Skrivena Luka.

Mljet
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Day 7

Lastovo → Mljet (Polače)

Twenty-two miles of open water lie between Lastovo and Mljet, and the reward sits at the far end. Polače reveals itself late, a long inlet walled by land on both sides, its opening so understated you are almost in before the water goes glassy, and glassy it stays through the night. Along the shorefront run the remains of a Roman estate from the fourth century, near enough the quay that you can wander the basilica and the corner tower without paying a cent. This is the western way into Mljet National Park, so grab a green park buoy and square up with the ranger, whose fee rolls in the crew's park entry. Half an hour on foot gets you to Veliko Jezero, where a little ferry crosses to a monastery from the twelfth century on its own islet. Circle both lakes and you have walked about nine kilometres with nothing but cicadas for company.

Things to do

Walk the fourth-century Roman ruins on the quay

Ferry to St. Mary's monastery on Veliko Jezero

Cycle or hike the nine-kilometre lake loop

Swim in the cooler saltwater lakes

Mooring tip

Polače uses paid national park buoys, settled with the ranger on the waterfront, and the fee covers park entry for the crew. It is among the best-sheltered bays on the whole south coast, wide open only to the west; the village pontoon also takes a few stern-to boats on their own anchor.

Dubrovnik
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Day 8

Mljet → Dubrovnik

Give it a settled morning and the westerly gets up around eleven to carry you the twenty-four miles down to Dubrovnik. The city is the point, but the mooring is well back from it: charter boats lie at ACI Marina Dubrovnik in Komolac, eight kilometres inland up the Rijeka Dubrovačka, where you find lazy lines, fuel and the rest of it. Skip the old harbour on the seafront altogether. It takes day visitors only, lies open to a southerly, and never empties of tour tenders all summer. From the marina the 1A bus or a cab has you at the Pile Gate in under fifteen minutes. The one thing you do not miss is the wall circuit, a shade under two kilometres that soaks up an hour and a half with a few stops. Afterwards drop into the lanes behind Prijeko for dinner, clear of the Stradun scrum.

Things to do

Walk the full Old City wall circuit

Ride the cable car up to Mount Srđ

Dine down a Prijeko side lane

Have a drink at Buža bar on the rocks

Mooring tip

Book ACI Marina Dubrovnik at Komolac ahead in season; it is the only realistic overnight, with lazy lines and full services. Treat the Old Port as a daytime tender stop and nothing else. Reckon on half an hour door to door out to the Pile Gate on the 1A bus or by cab.

Okuklje
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Day 9

Dubrovnik → Okuklje (Mljet)

The way home opens with twenty miles northwest, and Okuklje is picked as everything Dubrovnik is not. It lies beyond the national park line on Mljet's southeast shore, which means no fee, no town and no day-boats, just a pinched crescent that holds maybe twenty yachts and three family konobas dangling their own free buoys. The routine repeats: grab a buoy, get ashore in the tender, settle on a konoba, and hold it by reserving the table. What to order is black risotto, inked dark with cuttlefish and the day's catch, with grilled bream if you want a second plate. Hills a hundred metres high close the bay off on three sides, so whatever is blowing outside, the wind quits at dusk and all you hear after dark is the sea chewing the rocks at the mouth. Take a swim before lunch, then follow the headland track round for the view down toward Korčula.

Things to do

Take a free konoba buoy and dine ashore

Order black risotto cooked with cuttlefish ink

Walk the headland path toward Korčula

Swim off the boat in flat water

Mooring tip

Okuklje's buoys are free once you book a table ashore, so check with the konoba when you pick one up. Bottom holding is patchy in the seagrass; the bay covers you from north, east and south, and only a strong northwesterly works any swell into the mouth.

Korcula
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Day 10

Okuklje → Korčula Town

Fifteen miles along the Pelješac Channel and Korčula Town is in sight long before you close it, red roofs stacked on a little peninsula behind one bell tower, the old wall dropping sheer into the sea. ACI Marina Korčula lies on the east side of the point, lazy lines and everything laid on. The town quay across on the west sits nearer the gates, but the Maestral finds it and it rolls once the channel breeze builds in the afternoon, so the marina usually wins. You cross the old town in ten minutes flat, its lanes cut in a herringbone that steers the wind through and throws shade down the alleys. Go up St. Mark's tower for the run of the channel, put your head into the house that lays claim to Marco Polo, and save the wander for dusk, once the Split day-ferries have cast off. A fish brodet in a courtyard konoba shuts the day down.

Things to do

Climb the bell tower of St. Mark's Cathedral

Walk the herringbone lanes at dusk

Look in on the Marco Polo house

Catch a Moreška sword dance in season

Order fish brodet in a courtyard konoba

Mooring tip

The east-side ACI Marina Korčula is your any-weather pick, lazy lines and full services included. The west-side town quay sits closer to the gates but opens to the Maestral and starts rolling by two in the afternoon; when the channel builds, run three miles southeast into the shelter of Lumbarda.

Jelsa
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Day 11

Korčula → Jelsa (Hvar)

Jelsa is the north-coast town on Hvar, third-biggest on the island and a far softer landing than the noise down at Hvar Town. Twenty-three miles over the channel from Korčula drop you into a broad bay that shrugs off the southerlies. Lie stern-to on the town quay on your own anchor over decent mud and sand, or slip onto a lazy line at the little marina east of it if you want power through the night. Farming runs this part of the island. The lavender still climbs the inland road toward Vrboska and Stari Grad and peaks through July, while the konobas down the back lanes pour Bogdanjuša, the local white. Two ways to burn the afternoon sit close by: three miles on the bike along the shore to the canal bridges at Vrboska, or a walk out into the Stari Grad Plain, tilled without a break since Greek settlers pegged out its field walls in 384 BC.

Things to do

Bike the coast road to Vrboska's canals

Walk into the UNESCO Stari Grad Plain

Try the local Bogdanjuša white at a konoba

Climb to the Tor watchtower for the view

Mooring tip

Jelsa's town quay is stern-to on your own anchor with water and power on the central section for a modest fee. The bay is well covered from the south but open to a northerly, which is rare in summer; the small marina on the east side is the lazy-line alternative when you want it.

lucice
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Day 12

Jelsa → Lučice Bay (Brač)

Ten miles north over the channel sets you on Brač's south coast at Lučice, a knot of little coves just along from the quarry town of Pučišća. Nobody lives out on the headland. Limestone cliffs and pine drop to the waterline, and the only walls standing are two summer restaurants that hang free buoys for anyone eating in. Take a buoy in the deepest cove, go over the side, and that is the afternoon accounted for. The water is the whole draw: Brač's pale stone floors the seabed, and on a flat day you see twenty metres straight down. The kitchens keep it plain, grilled fish and a jug of Plavac Mali, and with no shop and no bar there is nothing to pull you off the boat. Should the buoys all be gone, the bottom takes an anchor happily in eight to twelve metres of sand and weed.

Things to do

Take a restaurant buoy in the central cove

Snorkel the pale limestone seabed

Eat grilled fish with Plavac Mali ashore

Dinghy west to the Pučišća stone yards

Mooring tip

The buoys at Lučice are free with dinner ashore, so confirm with the restaurant on arrival; if they are full, anchor in eight to twelve metres of sand and weed. The coves are covered from the north and east but open to a southerly, so in a fresh south wind move a mile west into the enclosed harbour at Pučišća.

krknjasi
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Day 13

Lučice → Krknjaši Bay

You finish on the hook at Krknjaši, a fifteen-mile run northwest of Lučice into the strait dividing Veli and Mali Drvenik, two empty islets four miles off the Trogir base. This one is a swim stop and nothing more. The bottom is pale sand at three to six metres, the anchor sets first go, and on a still day the whole bay turns turquoise and shallow enough to read the floor. Three restaurants on Veli Drvenik, no road to any of them, put out free buoys, but on a bottom this kind most crews just drop the hook. There is a small chapel on the east shore, a path that rings the headland in thirty minutes, and that is the entire inventory. Stopping here for the last night is pure logistics: Saturday's run back is only four miles east into Kaštela, so nobody is rushed in the morning and the boat comes in fuelled and easy. Sunset over the open sea is the route's quiet goodbye.

Things to do

Anchor on sand in four to six metres

Swim the turquoise shallows off the boat

Walk the half-hour headland loop on Veli Drvenik

Eat grilled fish at a Drvenik beach restaurant

Mooring tip

Krknjaši is a straightforward anchor on excellent sand in four to six metres, which most crews prefer to the free restaurant buoys. The bay is covered from almost every direction except the west and northwest; if a fresh westerly is forecast, run the last four miles east into Marina Kaštela a day early.

Kastela
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Day 14

Krknjaši Bay → Kaštela

The final hop is the shortest of the whole fortnight: four miles east off Krknjaši into Marina Kaštela, between Split and Trogir, where the trip began. The Saturday handover follows a fixed script, boat back alongside by nine, tanks pumped, fuel aboard, decks hosed and inventory ticked off, and someone left on board for the walk-through between eight and nine. Kaštela ranks among the largest marinas on the Adriatic and reads clearly from any approach, its control tower rising over the breakwater. Once the fuel is in and the papers are signed, the airport is a quarter of an hour away and central Split around twenty-five minutes. Most crews fill the gap the same way, an unhurried loop through Diocletian's Palace and a coffee on the Riva before the car comes. Two weeks and better than two hundred miles behind you, that last one goes down well.

Things to do

Top up fuel before the 9am inspection

Walk Diocletian's Palace one last time

Take a final swim at Bačvice beach

Have a long coffee on the Riva

Mooring tip

Bring the boat back into Marina Kaštela as your contract specifies, and the base manager will point you to the slot. The handover window is eight to nine on Saturday morning; if your contract asks for a night-before return, aim to be in by five on Friday. The fuel pontoon is on the western entrance side.

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