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At one of the jetties in the Marina Punat on the island of Krk, a motor yacht burned again in the evening hours of March 31, 2021. Only through the quick and professional intervention of the marina fire department and the fire departments of the surrounding villages, it was possible to prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring boats. No...
Read moreSeaHelp Livestream on the SeaHelp-Channel at YouTube: Who is authorized to steer a yacht or a boat in the Croatian coastal waters with which boat license and which additional authorizations are required? Questions that are asked not only by the countless charter guests who travel to Croatia year after year to take the unique island world of the Kornati under...
Read moreWhen the SeaHelp operations center in Punat announces that the overhaul of the first SeaHelp rescue boats for the coming season has been completed, it is virtually an unmistakable wake-up call for the coming water sports season in Croatia. Already in mid-February, Punat reported "completion": the Bolero, stationed in Tribunj, had to undergo extensive maintenance measures in the shipyard so...
Read moreBoat owners and property owners who wanted to inspect their properties in Croatia after the winter storms previously had to at the Croatian border upon entry, a negative PCR-. Test (no older than 48 hours) present or perform a PCR test in Croatia and be quarantined in Croatia until a negative result is received. SeaHelp, in order to address the...
Read moreTo anticipate it: The 22nd Biograd Boat Show in Croatia will take place from 21 October to 25 October. For visitors the risk to be infected with the Coronavirus might be relatively small, because as SeaHelp already reported in detail, both Austria and Germany downgraded the Croatian county Zadar, in which also Biograd lies, as risk areas. Exactly that means:...
Read moreThe sound when the engine of a ship or yacht suddenly dies off because of an object that is caught in the propeller probably drives many an owner's sweat beads onto his forehead. The first reaction is to disengage the clutch. The next thought is a major engine failure, but fuel problems or a fault in the electronics can also...
Read moreSometimes it is the supposedly small things that make a holiday resort stand out, as well as the until recently practiced solution of opening the Tisno Bridge (Island of Murter, Croatia) for half an hour in the morning and in the evening to allow sailors, motor yachts and larger pleasure boats to pass through. Currently the bridge is closed in...
Read moreSeaHelp has already reported on the intentions of the Croatian Ministry of Tourism to reduce the tourist tax. According to information from the Croatian Ministry of Tourism's website, a new tourist tax ordinance 2020 has been in effect since Friday, 26.6.2020, which, according to an initial review, should result in significant relief for boat owners in Croatia. Here are the...
Read moreActually, the Marina Stella (Italy) is considered an insider tip for skippers in the area of the northern Adriatic Sea: Via the small river Stella you can reach on your own keel from the northern Italian Laguna di Marano deep into the interior of Friuli, where typical delicacies and an excellent Prosecco are waiting for the owners at the end...
Read moreBridge lifting timetable:\r\n1 May \u2013 1 October \u2013 every day: 9 am - 9.30 am, and 5 pm - 5.30 pm\r\n1 October \u2013 1 May \u2013 Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9 am \u2013 9.30 am<\/blockquote>\r\nWater sports enthusiasts the most loyal tourists<\/h2>\r\nIn our opinion, an owner and SeaHelp member was right to complain about this rather unfriendly behaviour of the administration towards the water sports enthusiasts. The competent Croatian authority, which ordered the morning opening of the bridge on the island of Murter to be cancelled without replacement, has probably forgotten one thing: Water sports enthusiasts, especially boat and yacht owners and sailors are among the most loyal tourists in Croatia, and even in the times of the Corona pandemic they were the first to return to Croatia as tourists. Statistics, which are also available to the Croatian National Tourist Board, support the assumption that boat owners in particular stay much longer in Croatia than many other tourists and support the Croatian economy with significantly higher spending per person per day.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n