After a peaceful night at Piškera we slipped our lines and continued our journey south. It was a lovely clear morning with light winds so the sails were set to head towards Hvar. However, once away from the shelter of the islands the wind picked up and switched direction, it was blowing from directly in […]
With permission to only stay in Croatia for another couple of weeks it was time to start the 250nm journey back towards Dubrovnik where we will check out. However, there are some more places to visit along the way and so we set off weaving around the islands towards the Kornati archipelago. There was just […]
Having reached our furthest destination north we started to travel southwest down the Istrian peninsula. We planned to go to Pula and stop at a few bays on the way. We slipped our lines at Opatija marina and sailed 19nm along the coast to a very pretty bay called Uvala Prklog where we anchored for […]
There were strong winds and thunder storms forecast over the next couple of days so we booked into Opatija Marina in the shelter of Mount Učka, which stands at nearly 1400m. The journey was 30nm, we had a strong breeze and sailed to the bay at the northeastern end of the Istrian peninsula. The friendly […]
Our plan is to head towards the Istrian peninsula in the north of Croatia so some longer passages were required, but before we set off we needed to do an oil change on the engine. The town of Murter is very well equipped with everything required to maintain boats including a Volvo Service Center (there’s […]
It was early evening when we arrived back in Croatia and were very pleased to find that ZigZag was still where we had left her and everything looked okay on board. Her relaunch was booked for early the following morning, so we took the opportunity while she was out of the water to quickly add […]
Sailing ZigZag 