Our next stop was on Brač island, we still hadn’t managed to find water to refill our tanks so booked into the marina at Milna located on the western side of the island. We dropped our lines to the buoys at Šćedro and headed northwest around Hvar island. As we passed the main town it […]
From Mljet we continued 15 nm north to the Island of Korčula. Known for its dense forest, the ancient Greeks called it Black Korčula (Kerkyra melaina). The island of Korčula is twinned with Rothesay in Scotland. Korčula is believed to be the birth place of Marco Polo (1254- 1324) who was captured in the Korčula […]
We left Dubrovnik Marina and planned to go just a few miles to anchor in the next bay along the coast called Zaton. However, as we approached, a big black cloud was looming and we started to see lightening strikes in the sky, the wind was starting to get stronger and the swell was picking […]
Dubrovnik is well known for its distinctive ‘Old Town’, encircled with massive stone defensive walls, medieval architecture and well-preserved buildings with terracotta rooftops. Having arrived in Dubrovnik as our first port of call in Croatia, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to visit the ancient city and decided to take advantage of the convenient bus that […]
From Santa Maria di Leuca, we travelled 25 nm north around the east coast of the heel of Italy to Otranto. This was to be our last stop in Italy for a while. We only had a very light wind so ended up motoring for 4 hours (thankfully we re-fuelled before leaving) until the wind […]
After a couple of days in Siracusa we planned our route and set off on an overnight passage to mainland Italy, our first port of call would be Roccella Ionica on the toe of the boot. The weather forecast was for light winds, with a flat sea and sunshine. Once we had motored out of […]
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