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Kaštela via Vis & Korčula.

Seven-day yacht loop from Kaštela taking in Šolta, Vis, the Blue Cave, Korčula, the Pakleni Islands, Hvar and Brač, with distances and mooring notes.

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Maslinica
Day 1

Kaštela → Maslinica Bay (Šolta)

A gentle 13-mile hop across the Split Channel to Maslinica, Šolta's one real harbour, so the crew settles in before the longer days south.

Distance

10 NM

Sailing

~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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Maslinica
1
Day 1

Kaštela → Maslinica Bay (Šolta)

We usually cast off from Marina Kaštela mid-morning and lay a course southwest, thirteen miles across to the western tip of Šolta. Maslinica opens up behind a scatter of low islets that knock the worst of any swell down before it reaches the inlet, so the water inside sits calm even when it's blowing outside. The village is small and unhurried. Baroque Martinis Marchi castle anchors the south shore, restored now into a marina and hotel, while a handful of konobas line the square and pour Šolta's own olive oil and the local Dobričić red. It's the closest island to Split yet somehow skips the day-boat crowds. Late afternoon, walk the shore path or dinghy over to the entrance islets for a swim off the rocks. An early dinner ashore sets you up for the open crossing tomorrow.

Things to do

Tour the Martinis Marchi castle grounds

Try Dobričić, Šolta's native red wine

Swim off the rocks at Stipanska islet

Buy Šoltansko olive oil in the village

Catch the sunset from the entrance islets

Mooring tip

On the south side, Martinis Marchi carries full services and laid lines; book it for July and August. Its village quay is stern-to on your own hook for a modest charge, and the ring of islets keeps the bay well protected in all but a rare northerly.

Komiza
2
Day 2

Maslinica Bay → Komiža (Vis)

Point the bow south and get comfortable: Komiža sits a full twenty-four miles off, and there's little to do but hold the course. Brač slides past to port, the Hvar Channel falls away astern, and no other day this week keeps you out on open water this long. Vis stayed a Yugoslav military zone until 1989, and the lack of resort sprawl still shows. Komiža wraps a small bay on the island's western shore, a proper working port with nets drying on the quay and fishing boats rafted three deep. The old Venetian tower holds the Fishermen's Museum, worth an afternoon hour. For dinner, Jastožera serves lobster in a converted lobster-pot house over the water, and the konobas nearby grill the day's catch alongside the island's Vugava white. Stay for the sunset. The horizon runs unbroken west toward Italy, and Komiža does that hour better than most.

Things to do

Eat lobster at Jastožera over the water

See the Fishermen's Museum in the Venetian tower

Order grilled fish with a glass of Vugava

Hike Mount Hum for the island panorama

Watch the sun drop toward Italy

Mooring tip

Berth stern-to with your own anchor in the inner basin off the town quay; the bottom is sand and weed with mostly reliable holding, and there's a harbour fee. The outer wall catches southwest swell and isn't safe overnight, so if a strong SW is forecast, slip six miles north to sheltered Vis Town in St. George's Bay.

Vela Luka
3
Day 3

Komiža → Blue Cave (Biševo) – Vela Luka (Korčula)

Everything hinges on the light. The sun only floods the Blue Cave on Biševo with that deep blue glow between roughly nine and eleven in the morning, so we time the day around it. Tie up at the little concession quay outside, pay at the kiosk, and wait for an official tender; private dinghies stay out. Reckon on forty minutes all in. Then it's eighteen miles southeast to Vela Luka, tucked into the western end of Korčula. The long town quay has fuel, water and power, and the bay is among the best-protected on the south coast, shrugging off wind from the north and east. Dinner ashore leans on žrnovski makaruni, the island's hand-rolled pasta, and whatever came off the boats that morning. Walk up to the Vela Spila cave above town if you've the legs for it.

Things to do

Join the official Blue Cave tender early

Order žrnovski makaruni in a Vela Luka konoba

Climb to the prehistoric Vela Spila cave

Stroll the Vela Luka waterfront at dusk

Mooring tip

Vela Luka takes stern-to on your own anchor along the town quay, with water, power and a fuel pump at the western end and excellent holding in mud and sand. The bay is shut off from north, northeast and east; only a hard southerly nudges any swell inside, and the inner pontoon still stays comfortable.

Palmizana
4
Day 4

Vela Luka → Hvar (Palmizana)

Set the alarm early for this one. Thirty miles east-northeast is the biggest single haul of the week, and you want to be well clear of the Korčula Channel by early afternoon, when the westerly Maestral starts to build. Play it right and that wind swings onto the beam, driving you into the Pakleni cluster at a proper clip. Palmižana lies on Sv. Klement, the only islet here with a marina, and its slots fill fast in high summer, so book ahead or plan to anchor. The Meneghello family's botanical garden, laid out back in 1906, is the classic wander, and Zori and the other konobas around Vinogradišće handle dinner. Snorkellers should look for the scattered Roman amphorae off the western shore. A water taxi runs across to Hvar Town if the crew wants a livelier night.

Things to do

Wander Meneghello's 1906 botanical garden

Dine at Zori above Vinogradišće cove

Snorkel the Roman amphorae off the west shore

Take the water taxi to Hvar Town

Walk across Sv. Klement to Vlaka

Mooring tip

ACI Marina Palmižana offers stern-to lazy lines, but summer capacity is tight, so book online well ahead. If it's full, anchor in Vinogradišće on the south side with a line ashore; the holding in sand and weed is fair and the cove sits better out of the afternoon westerly than the main bay, which turns rolly once the Maestral funnels through.

Stari grad
5
Day 5

Hvar → Stari Grad

After yesterday's slog, twelve easy miles feels like a rest day. Round the western end of Hvar and run down a long, fjord-like inlet to Stari Grad. Greek colonists from Paros founded the place as Pharos in 384 BC, and their street grid still lines the old centre. Behind town spreads the Stari Grad Plain, a UNESCO landscape whose field boundaries have been worked continuously for well over two thousand years. If you head indoors anywhere, make it Tvrdalj Castle, the poet Petar Hektorović's fortified house built around a saltwater fishpond he stocked with mullet. Best of the afternoon is to rent a bike and roll east through the plain, past the drystone walls and lavender rows, or simply lose an hour in the medieval lanes. The bay itself stays calm in most weather, one of the surest overnights on Hvar.

Things to do

Cycle the UNESCO Stari Grad Plain

Visit Tvrdalj Castle and its fishpond

Walk the ancient Greek street grid

Order peka at a plain konoba, booked ahead

Mooring tip

The town quay takes stern-to on your own anchor for a modest fee, with water and power along the central stretch. For an all-weather berth, ACI Marina Stari Grad on the east side has lazy lines. The inlet is deep and shut in on every side, so wind direction barely matters here.

Milna
6
Day 6

Stari Grad → Milna (Brač)

Milna sits twelve miles north across the Brač Channel, a long, protected cut into the island's west coast and a safe haven since Venetian days. You'll pick out the seventeenth-century parish church on the inner quay from well offshore, stone houses stacked up the slope behind it. Berth stern-to on your own anchor along the inner quay, or drop the hook in the outer half over sand and run a stern line to the rocks if the Maestral gets up. The island trades on its white limestone; Diocletian's Palace was raised from it, and the quarries at Pučišća up the coast are still cutting it today. The other local institution is peka, lamb slow-baked under an iron bell, so order it the minute you're tied up. Then walk out to the headland church and wander back for a slow dinner.

Things to do

Order lamb peka three hours ahead

Spot the 17th-century church from offshore

Anchor and line ashore in the outer bay

Dinghy north to Bobovišća for a quiet swim

Mooring tip

Stern-to on the inner quay with your own anchor, small fee, water and power mid-quay. The outer bay is free anchoring with a stern line to the rocks. It's open from southwest to west, so if the afternoon Maestral climbs above fifteen knots the inner quay is the calmer bet; Bobovišća, three miles north, is the fallback.

Kastela
7
Day 7

Milna → Kaštela

Home stretch, and a short one. Fifteen miles east-northeast across the open Split Channel drops you back where the week started. Charter Saturdays run to a script: boat alongside by nine with tanks topped, holding pumped out, decks hosed and inventory ticked off, and the skipper on hand for the handover check between eight and nine. The marina fills the shoreline between Split and Trogir, and you'll spot its control tower long before you pick out the breakwater. Once the paperwork's signed you're fifteen minutes from the airport and twenty-five from the old town. There's a reason this loop works so well over seven days: it strings together Vis, Korčula and Hvar without the forced march you'd need to reach Dubrovnik and get back. Send the week off with a long lunch on the Trogir riva or inside Diocletian's Palace.

Things to do

Top up fuel and pump out before nine

Take a last swim at Bačvice beach

Wander Diocletian's Palace before the transfer

Stand a long lunch on Trogir riva

Mooring tip

Return her to Marina Kaštela as your charter contract states; the base crew will point out the slot. The window runs eight to nine on the Saturday, though a few contracts want a Friday-evening return by five. You will find the fuel pontoon over on the entrance's western side.

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