Thursday, June 8th 2017 afternoon my wife Ilse and I set sail with light northwesterly winds from
Cres Marina to the west coast of Otok Losinj. In the evening we anchored in the beautiful Uvala Tomozina and cooked delicate spaghetti aglio e olio.
Next morning we motored further south and found a mooring place in the small harbor of
Otok Susak. We walked around the long sandy beach, took a refreshing swim and explored the extraordinary sandy landscape and visited the village and cemetery on the sandy hill. At last we enjoyed a nice dinner at Hotel
Sansegus.
At dawn early next morning we continued south first with no wind along the west coast of
Otok Premuda and Otok Molat. Afternoon we sailed with weak westerly winds along the east coast of Dugi Otok to
Sali, where we moored in the nice harbor. We took a long walk around the village, visiting old churches and looking for a good restaurant. We found
Konoba Marin well hidden in a picturesque backyard and had a good dinner with local specialities: grilled rolls of zucchini stuffed with goat cheese, truffled home made pasta and a good red house wine.
We were happy awoken by a a nice westerly wind with 5 bft next morning. So we sailed with first reef south through
Kornati islands, along Otok Zirje, passing
Hrid Mulo with a nice speed above 7 kn. For a quiet night we found good shelter in Uvala Vinisce anchoring in front of
Restaurant Kupinica where we had good antipasti mare and pizza.
Next morning we sailed between Veli Drvenik and Otok Solta into Pakleni Kanal and took a buoy in Vela Garska near
Konoba Mareta, where we enjoyed swimming and savoured fish from the grill. Tuesday 13th we visited crowded
Hvar harbor, took a relaxing swim in the bays of the
Pakleni islands and in the afternoon continued to
Otok Scedro, where we moored at the small jetty in front of
Restaurant Kod Ive in the southern end of Uvala Lovisce. We walked across Otok Scedro to have a first orienting look at Otok Korcula. The nice couple of Kod Ive served us exceptional fish and good local wine for dinner.
After a refreshing swim we started on our last leg to
Korcula, where we moored at the
ACI Marina. In the afternoon we visited the beautiful old town. We savoured remarkable local dishes at
Restaurant Aterina for dinner. Next morning we went uphill for some provisions and left with light rain to the gasoline station in the next bay. In the afternoon we rounded Rt.Raznjic and spent the night at anchor in Uvala Przina after cooking some pasta con verdura.
Against nice northwesterly winds we tacked along the south coast of Otok Korcula next day and then to the south coast of
Otok Vis, where we took a buoy in Uvala Rukavac in front of
Konoba Dalmatino, where we had very good grilled branzino and salad. The next day was a wonderful sailing day with ideal easterly winds pushing us northwest to
Otok Zirje, where we took a buoy in Uvala Tatinska. Dinner at
Konoba Stubica was very bad, fat from the freezer, and we had to pay extra for the buoy!
During the night the wind grew stronger, so we started next morning with a small bora up to 7 bft and third reef. When we approached the eastern Kornati Islands, the wind was down to 4 bft, so we had a nice sail to our favorite island
Otok Levrnaka, where we moored at
Konoba Levrnaka. After a refreshing swim and a good hike around the island we enjoyed our favorite dinner: raw fish antipasto and dragonhead brodetto.
Next day we motored through
Mala Provesa and then tacked all along the east coast of
Dugi Otok and finally anchored in Uvala Podgarbe south of
Otok Molat.
The following day we motored nearly no wind south of Rt.Zaplo and then along east side of Otok Molat and Otok Ist. At noon we took a refreshing swim in Luka Sv. Ante south of
Otok Silba and then continued to
Ilovik, where we took a buoy in the canal. We visited the cemetery on Sv.Petar, took a hike to a peak of Otok Ilovik and had a good dinner at
Konoba Oliva.
Wednesday 21st we continued north to the west side of
Otok Rab, visited Supetarska Draga and anchored in the sandy bay east of Lopar. We enjoyed the sandy beach and a croatian dinner at Konoba Ankora. Next morning we explored the sandy beaches in the north of Otok Rab and continued north to
Otok Krk, where we visited
Baska and
Silo, and finally spent the night at anchor in sheltered Klimno bay.
Next day we sailed under the
famous bridge north of Otok Krk, visited Bakarska Vrata, motored with no wind alongside ugly Rijeka, and finally moored south of
Opatija in
ACI Marina Ici. We enjoyed a long walk on the "
Kaiser Franz Josef Promenade" and had a very good pizza at
Bistro Venezia offside the touristic tracks.
The last day of our cruise we sailed alongside Lovran and Moscenicka to Brestova, where we crossed the Kvarner to Otok Cres and finally moored back in
Cres Marina.
We sailed 104h and logged 532sm in 16 days.
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My old sailing friends Gusti and Richard came on board on September 4th 2017 and we decided in unison on a trip to Venice. So next morning we set sail across Kvarner Gulf, rounded Hrid Porer, and turned into Fazansky Kanal north of Pula and east of the Brijuni archipelago, where we finally anchored at Uvala Peroj
Early next day we continued north, visiting Rovinj, Vrsar, Porec, Novigrad and finally moored in ACI Marina Umag, where we had a surprising good dinner at Restoran Lido. At 6:30 next morning we declared exit and left Umag during some thunderstorms with convenient NE winds. Early in the afternoon we entered Venice through Porto Lido and moored at my favorite place at Compagnia della Vela in San Giorgio Maggiore across from Piazza San Marco.
