Three years ago I moved my boat from Turkey through Greece up to Brindisi Italy and then over to Croatia. The first night in Croatia we went to bed with not not a breath of wind about one o’clock in the morning the wind started to blow and I spent the rest of the night up at anchor watch, watching other boat’s around me drag and then try to reset their anchors and then about five in the morning the wind died and there was no wind during the day.
This along with the high prices are to me recurring themes of Croatia.
For me this is what I think about when I think of Croatia are the terrible wind conditions at night with no wind during the day, but then sitting up at night at anchor watch, I think of crowded anchorages, overpriced marinas, overpriced food and mechanics that don’t seem to care about customers, and not very friendly people.
It is the only country I have visited where they will charge you to drop an anchor! No services, just drop your anchor and “pay up”!
Croatia seems to be the playground of the German, Italian, French and other European sailors and from my point of view they can have it I will move elswhere and please don’t follow me. I found Croatia to be way over-rated in comparison to the other beautiful areas in the Mediterranean
I am adding a few videos that I took while sailing in Croatia This first one is of 2 Croatia Waterspouts that passed north of me when I was anchored in a bay in Northern Croatia
Anchorage on Losinj Island Croatia
Solo sailing down wind Croatia
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Bareboat Yacht Chartering in Turkey 2012