First week at sea

Kvarner bay on a peaceful day ....

So, here we are.... It's been a week since we sailed off from Koper marina. At 6pm last saturday exactly. Last days before that were exhausting, we were working hard and sleeping very little, trying to get the boat ready, to pack everything that we wanted to take with us and to prepare the house for new tenants. And an top of that there were all the emotions with saying goodbye to our families, friends, cats .... It was hard.

Some of our friends came to wave from the pier and they also helped us in finishing stage of packing - i don't know how we would have managed without them, by the evening of same day we would have killed each other or at least divorced... Mirjana, Natasa, Urska and Grega - many many thanks...

Our journey started with bad weather, strong SE wind was blowing when we sailed towards Croatia. We sailed on genoa alone, furled to third reef and our speed was still around 8 knots. The wind didn't bother me, but the waves did - they were 1,5 to 2m, coming directly at us, spraying sea all over the boat. And i thought to myself - what a way to start a vacation.... We spent the night at the buoy in Umag and next day sailed to Veruda near Pula. In the morning it was still windy and cloudy, but by the evening there was sun again. Next day we crossed Kvarner bay and anchored in Silba.

And the next mornig the summer begun .... Finally the weather was sunny and warm, the water nice and very clean, surroundings gorgeous ... And it got even better.... In the evening after the day spetnt mostly motoring we moored the boat at pier in Baratul on island Pasman. We spent next couple of days with our friends Irena and Pik, sailing, eating, having fun.. It was true summer vacation feeling, and slowly all the stress from packing, hard work and saying goodbye was disappearing ...