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Route · 7 days · round-tripYacht charter route · Split

Split via Vis & Korčula.

Seven days from Split through Šolta, Vis, the Blue Cave, Korčula, the Pakleni islands, Stari Grad and Brač, with distances and mooring notes for each stop.

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Maslinica
Day 1

Split → Maslinica Bay

A short first hop of 15 miles southwest lands you in Maslinica, the quiet cove at Šolta's western end, tucked behind seven small islets.

Distance

12 NM

Sailing

~2.4h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – early October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Split

Sailing area

Split

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Maslinica
1
Day 1

Split → Maslinica Bay

Fifteen miles out of Split and you are already on the hook in Maslinica, which makes it a forgiving way to start the week. Šolta sits closer to the mainland than any other island in this group, yet it stays off the day-tripper circuit, so the pace is slower than you would expect this near a city. The bay curls back into the hills and a scatter of small islets across its mouth takes the sting out of any westerly swell. You have two choices for the night. Martinis Marchi on the south side runs proper lazy lines and full services beside its restored baroque castle; the village quay opposite takes you stern-to on your own anchor for a small fee. We usually walk out to the western islets before dinner, swim off the rocks, and let the crew settle in early. Tomorrow is the long one.

Things to do

Swim off the rocks at Polebrnjak islet

Order the Dobričić red at a village konoba

Tour the Martinis Marchi castle courtyard

Taste Šoltansko olive oil in the village

Dinghy over to Stipanska for the swim path

Mooring tip

Martinis Marchi has lazy lines and full services on the south side; book it for July and August. The northern village quay is cheaper, stern-to on your own hook, and the bay covers you from everything but a rare northerly.

Komiza
2
Day 2

Maslinica Bay → Komiza

This is the longest stretch of open water all week, so we tend to slip the lines early. The track runs south under the bottom of Brač with the Hvar Channel widening away to port, then out to Vis, the furthest offshore of the inhabited Croatian islands. It stayed shut to visitors as a military zone until 1989, which is why you will not find resort sprawl here. Komiža wraps itself around a small bay on the western shore, its fishing fleet still tied along the eastern side. Berth stern-to in the inner basin on your own anchor; holding in the sand and weed is generally sound, though the outer wall is no place to spend a night once the southwesterly gets up. Dinner is grilled bogue and a bottle of Vugava, the local white. Then the sunset, dropping into open sea with nothing west of you until Italy.

Things to do

Walk the fishing fleet on the eastern quay

Try grilled bogue with a glass of Vugava

See the Fishermen's Museum in the Venetian tower

Hike Mount Hum for the 360-degree view

Watch the sunset from the harbour wall

Mooring tip

Go stern-to on your own anchor inside the inner basin; the ground is sand and weed and mostly holds well. If the forecast shows southwesterly over 15 knots, run the six miles up to Vis Town in St George's Bay, which is properly closed in.

Vela Luka
3
Day 3

Komiza → Bisevo – Islet Budihovac – Vela Luka

Timing rules this day. The cave on Biševo only glows that improbable blue when the sun sits right, roughly between nine and eleven in the morning, so plan to be waiting off the entrance early. Tie up at the little concession quay outside, pay the fee at the kiosk, and take one of the official tenders in; your own dinghy stays put. Forty minutes covers it. From there we drop down to Budihovac off the south coast of Vis, a pair of islets with water so clear it looks staged, and anchor in six to eight metres of pale sand for a swim and lunch aboard. The afternoon is an eighteen-mile run east into Vela Luka, a long protected inlet at the western end of Korčula with fuel, water and everything you need on the quay. Book a table for žrnovski makaruni, the pasta they roll by hand here.

Things to do

Take the tender into the Blue Cave

Anchor and swim off Budihovac's twin islets

Order žrnovski makaruni at a Vela Luka konoba

Stroll the Vela Luka waterfront at dusk

Mooring tip

Vela Luka gives you a long town quay, stern-to on your own anchor, with water, power and a fuel berth at the western end and holding that rarely lets go. It is well shut from the north and east; only a strong southerly nudges any swell inside.

Palmizana
4
Day 4

Vela Luka → Hvar (Palmizana)

The longest passage of the week, thirty miles east-northeast, and it pays to be off the quay at first light. The aim is to get across the Korčula Channel before the afternoon Maestral fills in around two, though when it does arrive it sits nicely on the beam and carries you the last leg into the Pakleni group at pace. Palmižana lies on the east side of Sv Klement, the biggest of these islets and the only one with a marina, so the lazy-line berths book out fast in high summer. The main bay holds in five to ten metres but rolls once the wind funnels through in the afternoon; if you would rather not, the coves on the south side such as Vinogradišće sit quieter with a line run ashore. Ashore, the Meneghello family have kept a botanical garden here since 1906. Dinner is at one of the konobas round the bay, and there are Roman amphorae off the western point shallow enough to snorkel.

Things to do

Snorkel the Roman amphorae off the western shore

Walk Meneghello's 1906 botanical garden

Anchor with a line ashore in Vinogradišće cove

Water-taxi across to Hvar Town for dinner

Mooring tip

Book the ACI lazy-line berths at Palmižana online well ahead for July and August. If it is full, or the afternoon southwesterly is building, tuck into Vinogradišće on the south side and run a line ashore rather than roll in the main bay.

Stari grad
5
Day 5

Hvar (Palmizana) → Stari Grad

A gentle fourteen miles today, bending clockwise round the western cape of Hvar and into the deep inlet that shelters Stari Grad. The Greeks founded Pharos here in 384 BC, and their street grid still shapes the old quarter. Behind the town spreads the Stari Grad Plain, a UNESCO site where the field boundaries laid out by those same colonists are farmed to this day, more than two thousand years on. Mooring is easy. The town quay along the western shore takes you stern-to on your anchor for a modest fee, and there is a small ACI marina across on the east side if you want power and lines in any weather. Walk out to the poet Hektorović's Tvrdalj, a fortified stone house wrapped round its own fishpond. In the afternoon we hire bikes and ride out through the old Greek fields; a peka lunch at a plain konoba is worth the three-hour notice they ask for.

Things to do

Bike the Greek field grid of Stari Grad Plain

Visit Tvrdalj Castle and its fishpond

Wander the Greek street grid of the old town

Book a peka lunch at a plain konoba

Mooring tip

The western town quay is stern-to on your own anchor with water and power on the central section; the ACI marina opposite is the all-weather fallback. The inlet is deep and fjord-like, so it stays calm whichever way the wind blows.

Milna
6
Day 6

Stari Grad → Milna

Twelve miles across the Brač Channel brings you to Milna, a slim inlet cut into the island's western side that has sheltered boats since Venetian times. You will spot the old parish church on the inner quay long before you are alongside. Tie stern-to on the town quay inside, on your own anchor, with water and power along the middle stretch; the outer half of the bay is open anchoring in six to ten metres of sand, with a line to the rocks if the afternoon breeze comes in. Two things made Brač's name: the white stone, still cut at Pučišća up the coast and hauled off long ago for Diocletian's Palace, and lamb done slow under the peka. If you fancy peka tonight, order it the minute you tie up; three hours is the going wait. Later, walk out to the little church on the headland just north of the harbour for the view back over the boats.

Things to do

Order lamb under the peka on arrival

Walk to the headland church north of the harbour

See the 17th-century parish church on the quay

Dinghy to Bobovišća for a sunset swim

Mooring tip

Berth stern-to on the inner town quay with your own anchor for a small fee, water and power midway along. The outer bay is free anchoring with a line to the rocks; the quay stays comfortable when the Maestral pipes up, and Bobovišća three miles north is the bad-weather bolt-hole.

Split
7
Day 7

Milna → Split

The run home is fifteen miles east-northeast over the open Split Channel. Most charters wrap on a Saturday morning, and base runs a tight window: alongside by nine, and before the eight-to-nine walk-through you want the fuel filled, the holding tanks pumped, the decks hosed and the inventory squared against the sheet, with someone left on board to hand over. Depending on your contract you will be heading for ACI Marina Split, Marina Kaštela or ACI Trogir; the approach to each is clear in any light. The Palace sits five minutes' walk from the ACI berths; the airport is twenty-five in the car. If time allows, close the week properly. Take an hour down in the Palace cellars and up on the Peristyle, or hold a table on the Riva and watch the ferries come and go. Seven days, three of Dalmatia's best islands, and not a passage all week that felt like a slog.

Things to do

Pump out and top up fuel before inspection

Walk Diocletian's Palace one last time

Climb St Domnius bell tower for the panorama

Take a final swim at Bačvice Beach

Linger over lunch on the Split Riva

Mooring tip

Head back to whichever base your contract names, ACI Marina Split, Marina Kaštela or ACI Trogir, and berth as the base manager directs. The Saturday inspection window is eight to nine; if your paperwork asks for a night-before return, aim to be in by around five on Friday.

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