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Kaštela via Kornati & Krka.

A 7-day sail from Kaštela north into Kornati National Park and up the Krka River to Skradin, looping back via Primošten and Rogoznica.

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Veli Drvenik
Day 1

Kaštela → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

A short four-mile hop west from the base into a shallow sand-bottomed bay where the crew learns the boat before the real sailing starts.

Distance

11 NM

Sailing

~2.2h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Kaštela

Sailing area

Split

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Day 1 / 7
Veli Drvenik
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Day 1

Kaštela → Veli Drvenik (Krknjaši Bay)

Day one is deliberately gentle. We motor four miles out of Marina Kaštela into the strait dividing Veli Drvenik from its smaller sister, and drop the hook where the water shades from deep blue to a pale green over clean sand. Locals call this the Blue Lagoon, and on a still afternoon the name earns itself. Depths run three to six metres, holding is reliable, and the seabed is soft enough to forgive a sloppy set. A trio of little restaurants sits on the shore, each laying free buoys for anyone booking dinner, though most crews simply anchor and swim. There is a chapel on the far side and a footpath that rings the headland in half an hour. Nothing here demands your attention, which is exactly the point on a first night. Use the light air to practise reefing and check the sail trim before turning north.

Things to do

Anchor over sand in the Blue Lagoon

Swim the shallows between the two Drvenik islands

Walk the half-hour loop past the chapel

Book a shore table for grilled fish

Practise reefing in the afternoon breeze

Mooring tip

Anchor in three to six metres on sand that holds well; it is the standard call here. Restaurant buoys are free with dinner, but the bay opens to the west, so if a westerly above 18 knots is forecast, slip two miles into ACI Trogir instead.

Primošten
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Day 2

Krknjaši Bay → Primošten

The run to Primošten is fourteen miles of open water, past Rogoznica which you will visit on the way home. Primošten reads clearly from a few miles out: a knuckle of land tied to the mainland by a thin sandy neck, red roofs stacked up to the church of St. George at the summit. The old town has stayed a working place rather than a resort, and its narrow lanes hide a handful of konobas worth the walk. Overnight, take ACI Marina Kremik two miles south, where lazy lines and a shuttle bus handle the logistics; the town quay is a daytime affair only. Above the houses climb the Bukovac terraces, dry-stone vineyards that yield the local Babić red. Come evening, take a glass of it on the quayside; the coastal whites do not come close.

Things to do

Climb to St. George's church at the peak

Taste Babić red from the Bukovac terraces

Wander the lanes for a konoba dinner

Swim off Velika Raduča beach

Ride the shuttle in from Marina Kremik

Mooring tip

Kremik, two miles south, is the reliable overnight: lazy lines, fuel, showers, and a bus into town. The town quay only works for a daytime stop and sits open to the west. If you take it in settled weather, clear the berth by five before the fishing boats come back.

Piskera
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Day 3

Primošten → Piškera (Kornati National Park)

Nothing else on the Croatian coast looks like Kornati, and the twenty miles northwest are the price of admission. It is a scatter of some ninety islands, almost none inhabited, stripped down to bare limestone and the dry-stone walls that shepherds ran up their spines centuries ago. The overnight is ACI Marina Piškera, sitting on the islet of Panitula Vela and the only berth inside the park. It runs 150 places with lazy lines, water, power, and one restaurant perched on the rocks above. Pay the park fee online before you arrive; it is cheaper than buying it at the kiosk, and dearer in high summer. With the boat secured, the afternoon is for the dinghy. Motor across to snorkel the channel toward Lavsa, or point south to the crowns, the sheer cliffs of Mana and Kornat where the rock falls straight into deep water. Sundown over the outer islands is the reason people keep coming back.

Things to do

Buy the park ticket online before arrival

Snorkel the channel toward Lavsa

Dinghy to the cliffs of Mana and Kornat

Dine at the marina restaurant above the rocks

Walk the karst spine of Panitula Vela

Mooring tip

Book Piškera online for July and August; every berth has lazy lines. Overnight anchoring inside the park is limited to a few bays, Lavsa, Lojena, Vrulje and Statival among them, where konobas lay free buoys with dinner. Ranger boats patrol, so pay your entry either way.

Zlarin
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Day 4

Piškera → Zlarin

Zlarin lies fifteen miles east of the park, one working village on the eastern shore and no second settlement to speak of. The island made its name on red coral. Divers here worked the offshore beds for something like seven hundred years, and a small museum by the square keeps the old gear, the weighted ropes and the frame cages they lowered by hand before engines took over. Tie stern-to on the village quay with your own anchor; the fee is modest and the middle berths have water and power. No cars run on Zlarin. The lanes are for walking, the pine and cypress on the western slopes give up a shady hour, and the konobas keep it simple with whatever came off the boats that morning. Later, the harbour wall does the work of a bar: a few crews, the fishermen, and the cicadas going flat out in the dark.

Things to do

See the coral gear at the village museum

Walk the pine slopes on the western side

Swim off the rocks south of the village

Eat the day's catch at a harbour konoba

Buy hand-made coral jewellery in the village

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the Zlarin quay with your own anchor works well; central berths have water and power for a small fee. The bay covers you from the west and north but stands open to a southeasterly. If one over 15 knots is forecast, run four miles up to Šibenik and tuck into ACI Mandalina.

Krka
5
Day 5

Zlarin → Skradin (Krka National Park)

This is the leg crews remember. Twelve miles take you off the sea entirely, up the Krka estuary past the old city of Šibenik, through the St. Anthony channel, a 600-metre slot cut in the rock with plenty of air under the bridge for any charter rig. Beyond it the river widens into a deep, hill-lined reach that runs fresh and green up to ACI Marina Skradin. The marina puts you at the doorstep of Krka National Park. Pay at the kiosk on the seawall, then take the park boat, which leaves every half hour in season and rides fifteen minutes upstream to Skradinski Buk. Skradinski Buk itself is seventeen travertine ledges stacked into a forty-six-metre fall, with a boardwalk threading both banks and the pools caught between them. Back at the quay, Skradin cooks its own dish, a slow beef risotto stained with saffron that keeps a cook busy for hours, washed down with the local Babić.

Things to do

Ride the park boat to Skradinski Buk

Loop the boardwalk over the seventeen cascades

Order Skradin risotto with the local Babić

Climb the lookout above the falls

Walk the medieval streets behind the marina

Mooring tip

ACI Skradin gives you lazy lines and full services, with a fuel pontoon at the river-mouth end. The channel in is well buoyed and deep for any draft, but budget ninety minutes at displacement speed from Šibenik. There is no anchoring in the park stretch, so it is the marina or back downriver.

Rogoznica
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Day 6

Skradin → Rogoznica

Retrace the river, then bear southeast down twenty miles of open coast to Rogoznica. It stands on a low peninsula, roughly halfway from Šibenik to Split. The southern tip holds the Dragon's Eye, a saltwater pool trapped in the karst that the sea refills through a buried channel on every tide, twice a day. At low water the surface sits several metres below the surrounding sea, ringed by pale cliffs, and a signed path from town reaches it in twenty minutes. Marina Frapa handles the night from the south side of the peninsula, one of the biggest bases in central Dalmatia, with lazy lines, fuel, a hotel and a run of restaurants. Smaller boats can go stern-to on the north quay, though it catches the northwesterly and the marina is the safer bet in season. The town itself stays small: a fishing fleet, a few konobas, an old quarter on the point.

Things to do

Walk the path to the Dragon's Eye

Look down at the lake from the cliffs

Eat brudet at an old-quarter konoba

Wander the headland's old stone quarter

Dinghy to Smokvica islet for a swim

Mooring tip

Marina Frapa on the south side is the all-weather choice, with lazy lines, fuel at the entrance and services on tap. The north quay takes stern-to with your own anchor for a small fee, but it is open to the northwest; move round to Frapa if a northwesterly over 15 knots shows on the forecast.

Marina Kastela
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Day 7

Rogoznica → Kaštela

Fifteen miles southeast closes the loop back to Marina Kaštela. You track the south side of Čiovo the whole way in, the long island that shelters Trogir, and its bays hand you a last swim: Slatine, Saldun or Mavarstica, each a short nudge off the rhumb line. Keep an eye on the clock, though. Saturday handovers run tight, and the boat needs to be back by nine with the tanks pumped, the fuel topped and the decks rinsed, ready for the base check between eight and nine. The run into Kaštela is simple in any light; the marina's control tower stands out from well offshore. Once the inspection clears you are fifteen minutes from Split airport. If the flight allows, spend the last hours in Trogir, a five-minute walk from the berth, where the UNESCO old town and the carved Radovan portal on the cathedral earn a slow lunch on the Riva before the transfer.

Things to do

Take a last swim in Saldun bay

Top up fuel before the base check

See the Radovan portal on Trogir cathedral

Walk Trogir's UNESCO old town

Linger over lunch on the Trogir Riva

Mooring tip

Return to Marina Kaštela as your contract specifies; the base manager assigns the slot. The Saturday check runs from eight to nine, so arrive by five on Friday if your paperwork calls for a night-before return. The fuel pontoon is on the western side of the entrance.

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