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

Trogir via Kornati & Krka.

A week's sail out of Trogir: north into Kornati's islands, upriver to the Krka falls at Skradin, home past Primošten, Zlarin and Rogoznica. Legs in NM.

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Krknjasi
Day 1

Trogir → Veli Drvenik, Krknjaši bay

A short four-mile hop west into the shallow lagoon between the two Drvenik islands, chosen so the crew settles in before the real miles begin.

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

Trogir

Sailing area

Split

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Day 1 / 7
Krknjasi
1
Day 1

Trogir → Veli Drvenik, Krknjaši bay

Nobody books a week in Dalmatia to spend the first afternoon at the marina, so we clear ACI Trogir early and point west. Four miles later the boat slides into Krknjaši, the pale-sand lagoon locals call the Blue Lagoon, lying in the channel between Veli Drvenik and little Mali Drvenik. The bottom here is sand and weed at three to six metres, so the hook bites first time and the water goes that improbable milky turquoise by mid-morning. No road reaches the three tavernas along the Veli Drvenik shore; you arrive by tender, and each one drops a few free buoys for anyone booking a table. There is little to do beyond swim, check the rig in light air, and eat grilled fish with your feet nearly in the water. That is the whole point. Day one is about shaking down the boat, not chasing distance.

Things to do

Drop the hook onto sand in four to six metres

Swim the shallow Blue Lagoon at Krknjaši

Dinner ashore at a Veli Drvenik taverna

Walk out to the point on Veli Drvenik

Practise reefs and sail trim while it's calm

Mooring tip

Sand holding is excellent at three to six metres, so anchoring is the usual call; the taverna buoys are free if you eat ashore. The lagoon covers everything but west and northwest, so if a fresh westerly is forecast above 18 knots, drop back the four miles to ACI Trogir for the night.

Primosten
2
Day 2

Veli Drvenik, Krknjaši bay → Primošten

You spot Primošten a good while before you reach it. The old town crams onto a knob of rock that only a low sandbar keeps joined to the coast, houses stacked right down to the waterline and the church of St. George pinning the top. Fourteen miles from the Drveniks, past Rogoznica which you will visit later in the week, and it earns its reputation up close: no resort gloss, just tight lanes and a handful of konobas doing brudet and grilled fish. The town quay is daytime only, so we take a berth at ACI Kremik two miles south and ride the shuttle in for the evening. Behind the town, the Bukovac terraces wall in the native Babić grape, dry stone stacked by hand over generations. Sit on the sea wall with a glass of the Babić as the light goes flat. It is worth the stop.

Things to do

Climb to the St. George church up top

Nurse a glass of Babić on the sea wall

Walk the hand-stacked Bukovac wine terraces

Find brudet down a Primošten side lane

Ride the Kremik shuttle in for the evening

Mooring tip

ACI Kremik, two miles south of the centre, is the dependable overnight berth with lazy lines and a shuttle into town; the town quay itself takes daytime visitors only and sits open to the west. If you do lie on the quay in settled weather, clear it by five so the fishing boats have their space back at dusk.

Kornati
3
Day 3

Primošten → Piškera, NP Kornati

This is the leg crews remember. Twenty miles northwest and the coast just falls away into Kornati: eighty-nine islands of bare grey karst, dry-stone walls climbing their backs, not a soul living out here, and a no-take zone that has the shallows crawling with life again. We aim for ACI Piškera, perched on a scrap of an islet called Panitula Vela at the park's western edge, the only pontoon berth anywhere within the park lines. There are a hundred and fifty berths here, all on lazy lines with water and power, and a single konoba sat on the ledge above the boats. Buy your park ticket online before you arrive; it costs less than at the kiosk, and in high summer the day rate for a charter yacht runs near a hundred euros. Come afternoon, drop the tender and go: snorkel the reef in the gap between Piškera and Lavsa, or push south to the outer crowns where Mana and Kornat drop a sheer eighty metres under the keel.

Things to do

Sort the park ticket online before you get there

Snorkel the shallows off Lavsa in the tender

Sail below the sheer south face of Mana

Eat at the lone konoba above the pontoons

Walk the stony spine of Panitula Vela

Mooring tip

Every berth at ACI Piškera has lazy lines; book online for July and August because it fills. Overnight anchoring inside the park is limited to a few licensed bays, Lavsa, Lojena, Vrulje, Stiniva and Statival, where the konobas usually lay free buoys for their dinner guests.

Zlarin
4
Day 4

Piškera → Zlarin

Kornati drops off the stern and it's fifteen miles east to the Šibenik islands, where Zlarin sits with its one village strung along the east coast and not a car on the whole rock. Coral made this place. For the best part of seven centuries the men here dove the red coral off the beds offshore, and the little museum on the square still keeps the tools of it — the foot-stones, the weighted lines, the timber cage-frames they lowered before anyone owned a tank. You lie stern-to off the village quay for pocket change, water and power on the inner berths. No cars means the inland lanes are yours on foot; half an hour uphill through pine and cypress puts you on the west slope, looking back down the channel. The konobas cook whatever the boats landed that morning, and once the plates are cleared the sea wall is where the village ends up, which by the fourth night suits most crews fine.

Things to do

Duck into the red-coral museum off the square

Climb through the pine and cypress to the west slope

Swim off the flat rocks below the village

Eat the morning's catch at a quay konoba

Watch coral still cut by hand in a workshop

Mooring tip

Take a stern-to berth on the village quay with your own anchor; the fee is modest and the central berths carry water and power. Zlarin shelters you from the west and north but stands open to a southeasterly, so if the sirocco is forecast over 15 knots, run the four miles up into Šibenik and lie in the estuary instead.

Krka
5
Day 5

Zlarin → Skradin, NP Krka

Not much else on this coast sails like the fifth day, because you spend it going the wrong way, away from the open sea and straight up a river. You clear Šibenik's old town, then the channel pinches down to the St. Anthony narrows: six hundred metres of blasted rock with the bridge forty-nine metres up, so no charter mast comes close to fouling. Past the cut the salt thins out, hills crowd both banks, and the river runs deep and green to the pontoons at ACI Skradin. A park boat leaves the marina every half hour in season, its fare already inside your entry ticket, and runs you up to Skradinski Buk, where the water steps down forty-six metres across seventeen limestone lips and a boardwalk threads along both banks. Ashore, the thing to order is Skradin risotto, beef and saffron cooked right down over the better part of a day, with a jug of the local Babić. Catch an early boat up; by noon the walkways are shoulder to shoulder.

Things to do

Boat upriver to the Skradinski Buk cascades

Follow the boardwalk around both sides of the falls

Eat Skradin risotto, saffron beef cooked all day

Poke through the old stone lanes above the quay

Hike to the viewpoint over the top of the falls

Mooring tip

ACI Skradin runs lazy lines on every berth with full services and a fuel pontoon at the entrance. The river channel is well-buoyed and deep for any draft; give yourself about ninety minutes at displacement speed from the Šibenik river mouth, and note there is no anchoring in the park stretch, so it is the marina or nothing.

Rogoznica
6
Day 6

Skradin → Rogoznica

Off the river and back onto salt water, you make twenty miles southeast to Rogoznica, a town spread over a stubby headland about midway from Šibenik down to Split. What people come to see is Zmajevo Oko, the Dragon's Eye: a saltwater pool sunk into the limestone at the point's southern end. The sea feeds it through a channel nobody can see, wringing the water in and out on the tide, so at low water the surface lies a good six metres under the sea just beyond the rim. Twenty minutes on foot from town puts you up on the cliffs looking down into it. Frapa, on the peninsula's south side, is about as big as marinas get in this part of Dalmatia, and it has the lot: lazy lines, fuel, a hotel, restaurants along the quay. A small boat can take the north village quay instead, but it sits wide open to the maestral, so most skippers just pay for the marina and sleep easy.

Things to do

Find the path out to Zmajevo Oko

Stand on the rim and watch the tide work the pool

Order brudet in a konoba on the point

Wander the handful of old lanes by the harbour

Run the tender over to Smokvica for a swim

Mooring tip

Marina Frapa on the south side is the all-weather choice, with lazy lines, full services, a fuel dock at the entrance and restaurants on site. The north village quay takes stern-to with your own anchor for a small fee but lies open to the northwest, so move round to the marina if the maestral is forecast over 15 knots.

Split
7
Day 7

Rogoznica → Split

Last morning, and the clock matters. It's eighteen miles southeast to run the boat home into the Trogir and Split bases, and Saturday means a hard deadline: alongside by nine, tanks topped and pumped out, decks hosed, gear checked back in, and someone aboard for the walk-round between eight and nine. Whichever of the three your paperwork names, ACI Trogir, Marina Kaštela or ACI Split in town, the way in is easy to read in any weather. You'll track the south shore of Čiovo the whole run, and it's dotted with small bays, so drop the hook off Slatine or Saldun for a last swim before you commit to the marina. Once the inspection's signed off and the bags are ashore, ACI Trogir leaves you five minutes from the old town, where St. Lawrence's cathedral still holds the carved portal Radovan cut in the thirteenth century. It's worth the half hour you have before the airport car comes.

Things to do

Anchor off Čiovo for one final swim

Fuel up and empty the holding tank early

Stand under Radovan's carved portal at the cathedral

Go up the Kamerlengo fortress at the town's edge

Take a slow lunch on the Trogir waterfront

Mooring tip

Return to the base named on your charter contract, whether that is ACI Trogir, Marina Kaštela or ACI Split, and berth stern-to or alongside as the base manager directs. The handover window is eight to nine on Saturday; if your contract asks for a night-before return, be in by five on Friday.

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