The Adriatic Sea The Adriatic Sea is the part of the Mediterranean Sea which The landscape changes constantly as you sail. In places the reaches deepest into the European mainland, and the area coastline is practically uninhabited and deserted, battered by belonging to Croatia is characterised by an attractive and the winter bura, like those on the north side of the islands diverse coastal landscape, and as many as 1185 islands, of Krk, Rab or Pag. The south sides are usually verdant with islets, reefs and rocks. The Croatian coastline extends to vegetation. One moment you are sailing alongside thick pine the length of 5951 kilometres. woods descending to the very edge of the sea - as they do on The spread of the Adriatic islands is ideal for yachtsmen. the islands of Lastovo or Jakljan, the next moment all you can They stretch, with breaks here and there, along most of see are macchia and karst. You will sail by and drop anchor in the coastline, in a string from Rijeka to Dubrovnik. Usually towns of unmistakeably Mediterranean character, as well as not more than ten nautical miles apart, the islands form in small fishing villages. The island settlements are diverse, numerous channels, both between the mainland and interesting and well worth getting to know. Many, like KorËula, themselves, and between themselves alone. The mainland Stari Grad or Vis, have their roots in the Antiquity. Other and the islands abound with bays, coves and ports - large settlements are of a more recent origin, having emerged and small - in which mooring or anchorage can be found. as fishing ports or as the ports of large island settlements These are ideal places to navigate by sail, but also to cruise located deeper inland. on a motor yacht or a sports fishing boat. No place is far The Adriatic Sea can be divided in various ways. Croatian away from another place, and if you want to you can spend meteorologists divide the entire Adriatic Sea into the northern, the whole day sailing. If the weather turns bad or a strong central and southern Adriatic along the lines stretching from wind picks up, there is always some place nearby to find Ancona to Zadar and from Monte Gargano to Dubrovnik. As shelter in. far as the Croatian part of the Adriatic is concerned the most Yachtsmen are, generally speaking, quite familiar with the common division recognized by yachtsmen is defined by prevailing winds of the Adriatic Sea. These are - clockwise from the dividing line at the promontory of PloËe or Cape Planka the north - the tramontana (N), the bura (bura), (NE, which can between Rogoznica and Primoπten, which divides it into two be both cyclonic and anticyclonic), the levant (levanter, E), the parts. This division is supported both geographically (there is winter levant (levanter), the jugo (souther, SE, which can be a break in the string of islands at the PloËe promontory), and both cyclonic and anticyclonic), the oπtro (ostral, S), the lebiÊ or with regard to the climatic and atmospheric conditions. For the garbin (SW), the pulenat (W), the maestral (NW) and the burin needs of sailing and of this edition we will divide it as follows: (a summertime thermal land breeze). Conditions for sailing Istria, the islands of Kvarner and the islands and shoreline of are for the most part favourable during the nautical season. the Velebit foothills, archipelagos and shorelines of Zadar, The maestral, as the most common summer wind, and the ©ibenik, Split and Dubrovnik. stable tramontana, are exceptionally pleasant sailing winds. It is much the same with the levant and jugo - if not too strong, but it is less frequent in summer. Even the bura blows with a somewhat reduced strength, although one should beware of it, as much as of the local storms and squalls which usually come from the west and southwest. The richly indented coastline, the currents and the local winds make navigation interesting. There is always something happening on a sailing boat. One moment you might be sailing with the wind, then you have to turn into the wind, then pass some narrow channel or a strait. The same applies when navigating a motor boat. korice_ENG_kraca.indd 1 11/13/08 4:02:56 PM The Adriatic Sea The Adriatic Sea is the part of the Mediterranean Sea which The landscape changes constantly as you sail. In places the reaches deepest into the European mainland, and the area coastline is practically uninhabited and deserted, battered by belonging to Croatia is characterised by an attractive and the winter bura, like those on the north side of the islands diverse coastal landscape, and as many as 1185 islands, of Krk, Rab or Pag. The south sides are usually verdant with islets, reefs and rocks. The Croatian coastline extends to vegetation. One moment you are sailing alongside thick pine the length of 5951 kilometres. woods descending to the very edge of the sea - as they do on The spread of the Adriatic islands is ideal for yachtsmen. the islands of Lastovo or Jakljan, the next moment all you can They stretch, with breaks here and there, along most of see are macchia and karst. You will sail by and drop anchor in the coastline, in a string from Rijeka to Dubrovnik. Usually towns of unmistakeably Mediterranean character, as well as not more than ten nautical miles apart, the islands form in small fishing villages. The island settlements are diverse, numerous channels, both between the mainland and interesting and well worth getting to know. Many, like KorËula, themselves, and between themselves alone. The mainland Stari Grad or Vis, have their roots in the Antiquity. Other and the islands abound with bays, coves and ports - large settlements are of a more recent origin, having emerged and small - in which mooring or anchorage can be found. as fishing ports or as the ports of large island settlements These are ideal places to navigate by sail, but also to cruise located deeper inland. on a motor yacht or a sports fishing boat. No place is far The Adriatic Sea can be divided in various ways. Croatian away from another place, and if you want to you can spend meteorologists divide the entire Adriatic Sea into the northern, the whole day sailing. If the weather turns bad or a strong central and southern Adriatic along the lines stretching from wind picks up, there is always some place nearby to find Ancona to Zadar and from Monte Gargano to Dubrovnik. As shelter in. far as the Croatian part of the Adriatic is concerned the most Yachtsmen are, generally speaking, quite familiar with the common division recognized by yachtsmen is defined by prevailing winds of the Adriatic Sea. These are - clockwise from the dividing line at the promontory of PloËe or Cape Planka the north - the tramontana (N), the bura (bura), (NE, which can between Rogoznica and Primoπten, which divides it into two be both cyclonic and anticyclonic), the levant (levanter, E), the parts. This division is supported both geographically (there is winter levant (levanter), the jugo (souther, SE, which can be a break in the string of islands at the PloËe promontory), and both cyclonic and anticyclonic), the oπtro (ostral, S), the lebiÊ or with regard to the climatic and atmospheric conditions. For the garbin (SW), the pulenat (W), the maestral (NW) and the burin needs of sailing and of this edition we will divide it as follows: (a summertime thermal land breeze). Conditions for sailing Istria, the islands of Kvarner and the islands and shoreline of are for the most part favourable during the nautical season. the Velebit foothills, archipelagos and shorelines of Zadar, The maestral, as the most common summer wind, and the ©ibenik, Split and Dubrovnik. stable tramontana, are exceptionally pleasant sailing winds. It is much the same with the levant and jugo - if not too strong, but it is less frequent in summer. Even the bura blows with a somewhat reduced strength, although one should beware of it, as much as of the local storms and squalls which usually come from the west and southwest. The richly indented coastline, the currents and the local winds make navigation interesting. There is always something happening on a sailing boat. One moment you might be sailing with the wind, then you have to turn into the wind, then pass some narrow channel or a strait. 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