162. Visiting the Netherlands
Two times a year, in April and October, we leave our catamaran and go to the Netherlands to visit family and friends. I also have assignments for training, workshops or speaking at a seminars. This time we went to the Netherlands in the beginning of October for 12 days, in which I had 6 days […]
161. Albania
After exiting the country of Montenegro, we came closer to the border with Albania. So far, any sailor we met told us: ‘Don’t go into Albania, we heard nothing but bad news from sailors’. We asked about these stories, and they were about: no services or place for pleasure yachts (only 1 harbor), minefield in […]
160. Montenegro – part 2
We enjoyed the Bay of Kotor a lot and climbing the Castle was the literal highlight! We sailed on and found more beautiful spots along the coast of Montenegro. In part 2 we will describe this part: Budva We visited Budva which has a beautiful old town, and like in Croatia this is called ‘Stari […]
159. Montenegro – Bay of Kotor
After our experience of sailing in Venice, we sailed south along the coast of Croatia where we had been sailing for 4 months. We visited places we skipped on our travels then in Croatia and could now visit on our way south. Our aim was to arrive in Dubrovnik, where we started our adventure sailing […]
158. Venice
Now that we were at the top of Croatia (region Istria), it is relatively short distance to sail to Venice: 60 nautical miles. With an average speed of our boat of 5 nautical miles per hour, we could do this in 12 hours. And that was exactly our plan and what we did (see the […]
157. Istria: sailing Pula, Rovinj and Poreč
We sailed further and further to the north of Croatia, because after Zadar, we passed the islands of Pag and Cres and crossed over to Istria. This is the northernmost province of Croatia and also the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. Istria is shared as a peninsula by 3 countries: Croatia has the largest […]
156. Zadar
Nice long sailing days, good wind and lots of sun, so off to our next destination, Zadar! On the way, we pass this ‘harbor’ which is actually more of a jetty and where a friendly American John is the harbor master. John’s family is originally Croatian, but his grandfather emigrated to the USA in the […]
155. Kornati National Park
Our next stop in Croatia would be a special archipelago in the Adriatic Sea: the Kornati National Park. We sailed from the coast of Croatia to this island group. And because the wind was on the back of our boat, we used a sailor’s technique that is called ‘milk girl’ where you place 2 sails […]
154. Sailing Šibenik and up the Krka River
Our recent sailing trip took us to the beautiful town of Šibenik in Croatia and further up the picturesque Krka River. In the neighborhood of Šibenik, we met with Marco and Bianca. When we just bought our catamaran in 2019, we stayed for 2 years in the Netherlands to learn to sail and to get […]
153. Baška Voda and Makarska
We sailed along the coastline, in the Dalmatia region and visited Baška Voda and Makarska. Along the way there were a lot of bays and we anchored there, sometimes to swim or lunch and often to stay overnight, because sailing in Croatia is popular and the harbors are expensive during summer. Bays come in many […]