Cruising Charter to Croatia
April 19, 2021
As is the case with so much of the Mediterranean, to sail in Croatia is to take a journey through time. Centuries before the birth
As is the case with so much of the Mediterranean, to sail in Croatia is to take a journey through time. Centuries before the birth
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Note: This story is excerpted from SAIL Contributing Editor Christopher Birch’s upcoming book The Four Seasons of Boat Maintenance—a compendium of lessons learned during his
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A little know how will save you a lot of stress on passage.
The wind built faster than it was forecasted to. We ate dinner with full sail, close-reaching on a building SSW’ly breeze. Before dark we had
Sailing on a schedule is famously a recipe for disaster, but on charter you don’t have much of a choice. The adventure is what you make of it.
