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Motorway traffic jams adé: Croatia plans to introduce electronic vignettes on 1 January 2024, we wrote here on 20 February last year. The background to this was a statement by Transport Minister Oleg Butković, in which he announced that Croatia would receive an electronic toll system for its motorways from the beginning of 2024. Sky Toll has now been chosen...
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We regularly report on harbours, marinas, filling stations on the water and more here. But we also like to share cultural and sporting offers for skippers who are travelling with their boat in Croatia and are always on the lookout for something new. Today, our author explores the question of what the blue signs with an abstract yellow shell, an...
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Acceptus is the name of a luxury motor yacht that was built in 2011 and refitted in 2023, or rather: was the name, because the 34-metre-long superyacht, a Ferretti flybridge from the Italian Custom Line shipyard, burnt out in Makarska on the night of 29 June this year. She was an eye-catcher in every harbour where she moored and in...
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Mali Lošinj (Little Lošinj), located on the island of Lošinj in the south-east of a wide and well-protected bay, is popular with sports skippers. No wonder, as the harbor and the marina a little to the north of it are embedded in an attractive town with a wide promenade and offer good protection against bora and jugo. Just a stone's...
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If you want to go shopping on your summer vacation in Croatia, you should familiarize yourself with the new Sunday opening ban beforehand. The reason: a new regulation for stores on the Adriatic coast came into force in July last year. Public institutions and stores remain closed on important national holidays anyway. Croatia is a dream destination for many vacationers....
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We already reported on a "Bermuda Triangle" for fuel customers here on 29.3.2024: The reason for this was that many boat filling stations in Croatia had recently been closed or demolished. Now relief is in sight. In the above-mentioned article, we outlined the (still ongoing) refueling situation for sports skippers as follows: due to the closure of the boat filling...
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Easily visible from the water is the old Venetian fortress of Maltempo, on the cape east of Voz. Sports skippers coming from Rijeka and sailing along the mainland coast in a south-easterly direction finally reach the narrowest point between the island of Krk and the mainland at Črešnjeva through the Tihi Channel, passing under the large Krk Bridge at Sv....
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Attention recreational boating: The waterway in Sv. Fumija Bay, the anchorage of the Port of Rab and the Port of Palit and sv. Euphemia will be closed tomorrow, Thursday, June 13, reports rabdanas.hr; in addition, part of the waterway will also be completely closed to recreational boating at a distance of 300 meters from the coast around the Frkanj peninsula,...
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Update 1.7.2024: The SeaHelp operations centre in Punat is currently reporting: The oil slick has been removed (as best as possible) and no further pollution has currently been reported. A floating oil slick was spotted in southern Istria yesterday, Sunday 9 June, flooding the coast near Cape Kamenjak and Premantura. The cause of the pollution is not yet clear, but...
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