27 April 2023 - Lastovo

We had bounced around in the wind coming directly into the bay, during the night but the morning dawned with no wind and mirror sea. After another walk around the seafront, we slipped out of the harbour about 11.30. We had left it this late so that we would have wind to sail across to the next island on our trip down the islands of the Croatian archipelago, Lastovo. We came into the bay of Jurjeva Luka last year, as it next door to the little town of Ubli, which has the island’s ferry port and also a border check in and out office.

Otok Lastovo was, for many years, out of bounds to visitors, being controlled and used by the military. It opened up in the late 1990s. It is stunningly beautiful, being covered with pine trees, almost down to the waters edge, all around. It is now a nature park and you have to buy a ticket to enter.

We had a superb sail across the 12 miles or so of open water, under a completely blue sky and on flat water. It was a beam reach, when the wind is at roughly 90 degrees to the boat, a nice, comfortable point of sail. We made good speed and arrived in the bay mid afternoon. We are the only visiting boat. Otherwise there is one local yacht attached to a mooring buoy and two small fishing boats, attached to a quay. There were three couples of people either fishing from the shore or on the beach, but by early evening everyone had gone and we were in complete tranquility. No one appears to live here. Most of the buildings, presumably formerly used by the military, are derelict. We weren’t surprised that we didn’t even get a visit from the park rangers.



Miles today         19

Miles in 2023    314

Tricia (& Steve)

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