Fred and Ita Adventures

It is hard to believe that it was just last month that we left USA and saw the boat for the first time, so much has happened. After the trip up past Greece and Albania our first port of call in Croatia was Cavtat which is the southern most port where you can check in. The check in process was a bit convoluted visiting 3 different offices some two times but overall, very straight forward if not so efficient. Once complete and the cruising fee paid, we can now stay for up to 90 days in Croatia. That was almost 4 weeks ago and the country is amazing. There is a reason there are more super yachts here than any other part of the Mediterranean or the Caribbean. We stayed at anchor for a few days in the pretty fishing town of Cavtat swimming during the day and eating ashore in the evening. The next stop was Dubrovnik where we anchored outside the city walls on the first night and then docked at a marina for a few days to explore the town. It is a living medieval walled city that is absolute...

 Yesterday we checked in to Croatia which marked the end of our first trip. From here we will spend the next weeks enjoying the coastline of Croatia moving slowly north to meet with some people in Hvar towards the end of the month. After launching CoKeMa we did a few day trips around Marmaris getting ready to depart from Turkey. Our original plan was to move slowly through the Greek Island heading north and west through the Corinth canal towards Croatia but the  tension  between Turkey and Greece meant our first port of call after Turkey could not be Greece. We made the decision to go directly to Croatia about 800 miles without a landfall. On the second night out we got blasted by the  Meltemi  with gusts greater than 35 knots and the next morning we decided to stop and anchor at a Greek island to make some repairs - an unofficial stop but at a remote island and we did not go on shore. With repairs to the lazy jack system completed we left early the next morning...