From Noga’s bay to Corčula

We arrived at Noga’s bay (on the Klement islands near Hvar) on Sunday afternoon. The bay was crowded with boats, mostly small power boats. We had a nice afternoon swim and had dinner at the restaurant that views the bay. At night the bay looks like sea of candles with all the anchor lights of the boats. This time the restaurant was disappointing and also the most expensive restaurant we had so far in Croatia. And as a punch line we smelled a very string smell of sewage flowing to the bay from the restaurant when we turned back to the dinghy. At 5am we were waken by a swell that entered the bay and rolled us badly. We left to Corčula later that morning.

Sailing to Corčula was probably the best sail we had so far. It started with no wind and ended with 24 knots straight on our head. We tacked 37 miles (that became 45 miles). Many boats did this path from Hvar to Corčula. There was only one other boat that sailed with us. It was some ketch rigging boat that very quickly started to motor up. The wind grew stronger and stronger till at some point Yael started to ask about reefing. To the girls’ disappointment we decide to do one reef at the mainsail. We didn’t lose much speed, and then later on we rolled some of the genoa as well. When we got closer to Corčula three more boats decided to put up some sail as well and sail up with us. We bit them by far!!! We were so much faster and tighter that at some point they all gave up and started motoring again.
The whole team including the older girls and the younger ones performed very well, so we could do whatever we wanted very easily!!!
There were only two problems:
We didn’t catch any fish, despite the high expectations we had this time.
When we got to Corčula, the marina was full so we turned to the adjacent Luka bay for the night. Yael and the girls took a water taxi straight from the anchoring boat to town and I stayed on the boat to write this story.

There is bad weather expected tomorrow so we’ll probably stay here another day.


Some pictures in the following link (note that I pinned the pictures to the map so you can see where the pictures were taken):

Shibenik to Corchula