Adriatic sea - Croatia 2016

In the year 2016 we went again to the Adriatic sea with our little boat. This time we were fortunate enough and found new friends - Jirka and Stana with the same boat Phobos 21 called "Lente" and their two kids Luky and Verca. They are great sailors and Jirka is also a good writer, so he wrote a great report from this trip on the pages of Krasa Jachtingu.

I know I'm posting this a little bit late, but I was a little busy doing other stuff, mainly demolishing the garage to be able to get the boat from the distant yacht club onto our property.

Anyway the trip was fine, everything has been working without any issue. The weather was very hot and we had sunny days expect like three days at the end of the vacation, when we were hit by a strong local NE wind called Bora. The maximum gusts we were able to measure was around 47 knots.
I've tried to sail under these conditions when the Bora was getting weaker after after 3rd day, but these winds are just too much to sail on just a piece of genua.
My wife was a bit scary, but the boat proved to be stable when close reaching just with the motor. Healed just a little.

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Small video can be also found on my previous post.

This time we used  a local mobile crane to launch the boat. I cannot say, what is more difficult, but at least, the trailer was saved from the salty water.

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Some boring statistical data:

• Distance sailed:143 NM (I know, not much for 3 weeks)
• Starfish: 5+
• Various fishes: 40+ (caught by son....fresh are so delicious!)
• Octopus: 2 (one eaten)
• Sea urchins: infinite!
• Dolphins: 0