Kurukulla

Kurukulla
Kurukulla, anchored at James Bond Island, Thailand

Sunday 20 June 2010

Croatia at last!



I finally made it away from Brindisi on Friday morning, 18th of June, in the company of another British yacht "Tranquillo" and only two months behind my original schedule! All is now well with Kurukulla and we are in Croatia at last. Shipping traffic off Brindisi was heavy (but still less challenging than the English Channel) but after that the only other interesting moments were finding a slightly alarming quantity of water in the bilges (a rapid taste test confirmed it to be fresh water subsequently found to be coming from the cockpit shower connection) and stumbling on a completely unexpected buoy, in the middle of the Adriatic, Gp Fl 5 Y, on the the direct line between Brindisi and Cavtat and on the median line between Italy and Montenegro. The late afternoon of the passage was made much more pleasant by the presence of a school of dolphins playing for half an hour under the bow.
Arrival in Cavtat, a port of entry for Croatia, was easy and only slightly marred by the increase in charges from last year! Tranquillo's crew (Derek and Alwena) supped with me onboard Kurukulla allowing me to repay some of their hospitality prior to leaving Brindisi. Both boats are now safely anchored in Cavtat east and awaiting the onset of some southerly winds to carry us north.

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