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After a quick morning swimming and a coffee, we decided to move away from the wasps and bees, which were flying around the cockpit and making stress to my younger son.So we set our sails heading to Vinogradišće bay, Pakleni islands near Hvar.My friend wanted to go in Vinogradišće since we like to lounge in Laganini lounge bar, or to have lunch at Zori - one of the nicest restaurants in the area- or to eat something in Toto’s.Vinogradišće bay is beautiful, with turquoise blue water- but every year more and more crowded. During our trip to Vinogradišće it was not much wind, so we were more motoring than sailing. We have arrived to our destination in the afternoon.Before arriving to Vinogradišće, I have called guy for buoy reservation. When approaching to bay, we were so disappointed - it is simply overcrowded after they have installed boys here. If my friend who desperately wanted to go here was not with us, we would for sure turn back and continue to next bay in Pakleni islands, which is for sure less crowded. And in addition we paid for a buoy almost 500 HRK for Oceanis 48, and it is a way...

Surprisingly night in Vinogradišće bay was very quiet, and young party crews went to bed very early :)We had good night and sleeping in the bay was very good, despite we were surrounded with many boats. Our day started with coffee on board of Oceanis 48 sailing yacht, in one of the most beautiful bays in Croatia. Morning in Vinogradišće was very quiet, and you would never say that there is 40-50 boats around you- it looks like everyone sleeps or if they are awake, they need few cups of coffee.Day was just perfect for the swimming. Kids took SUP’s and were paddling around sailing yachts and motor yachts. We (adults) and dogs were not interested for morning swimming, we wanted to have an espresso in Hvar. It is very easy when you have big dinghy (4 meters) with 30 Hp, we needed less than 10 minutes to Hvar city centre. Kids stayed in bay again, now paddling around our Oceanis 48. Hvar is always beautiful. It has something very special in this beautiful island and city- and with all these great motor yachts and catamarans moored on the waterfront and around- it looks very luxury and fancy. I was...

Advantage of being in base is that you have many showers, shops and coffee bar just behind the corner. We have used all of this advantages, and finished packing our things what we already started yesterday. Check out needs to be before 09.00h, so we had our things out already before 08.00h and boat was empty and prepared for the check out. We did some light boat cleaning- washing dishes and also washing cockpit- to ensure easier check out. Then we did last photo session on board of our great sailing yacht Oceanis 48. Me, my friend, kids and dogs went out for a coffee and breakfast in marina Kaštela, while our captain was doing check out together with yacht charter staff.Check out went smoothly, we didn't made any damage to sailing yacht or to equipment, so captain was quickly ready for going home. After this sailing trip we have decided that we need to spend more time sailing- so for sure we will go for one full week more in the high season, and maybe some spare day or two if any boat would be available on the dates we are able to sail 2 days.I will definitely sail...