georgebackhus on June 25th, 2009

Fourteen hours after departing the charming village of Cavtat on the southern coast of Croatia, we arrived in Brindisi, Italy, 118 miles to the south on the opposite coast of the Adriatic Sea.  The seas were flat calm all of the way, and the winds were mostly less than five knots.  For a short time [...]

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georgebackhus on June 4th, 2009

With more than 1100 ruggedly beautiful islands strung along its shoreline, Croatia’s 1100 mile Dalmatian Coast has become one of the most popular cruising destinations in the world.  We left Moonshadow in the ACI Dubrovnik Marina over the winter with plans to start the season with a cruise northwest up the coast towards Italy.
After a [...]

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