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If
you arrival to Croatia on a ship, yacht or a boat by sea-way, on
this page you will find useful information about sailing regulations
on the Adriatic Sea.
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| Adriatic
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Surface of the
coastal sea (inner sea and territorial sea, spreading 12 sea miles
from the inner sea) 31067km2.
Length of sea coast 5835km, 4058km of which are coasts of islands,
cliffs and ledges.
Altogether 1185 islands, cliffs and ledges, 67 of which are inhabited
islands, 651 uninhabited islands, 389 cliffs and 78 ledges.
Lighthouses, coastal and dock lights:600.
Coastal radio stations: Rijeka Radio, Split radio, Dubrovnik radio.
Harbors, which can accept big transatlantic ships, Pula, Zadar,
Sibenik, Split, Ploce and Dubrovnik.
Along the shore there are over 350 very favorable natural harbors
for ships.
The Adriatic Sea is a commodious bay of the central part of the
Mediterranean Sea with which it is connected through Otranska Vrata.
The Adriatic Sea spreads in the course of southeast, northwest in
a length of 870km, and it is averagely wide about 160km.
Republic of Croatia takes up 48% inland coasts and 97% of Adriatic
Seas islands coasts.
Bore enters the Adriatic Sea through Otranska Vrata and its circulation
along the Eastern Coast toward north, and along the Western Coast
toward south lasts 12 hours. Tidal fluctuations are about 25cm with
Otranska Vrata, up to 80cm in the northernmost part.
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| Port authority Vela Luka |
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Latitude:
42° 57'6 N
Longitude: 16° 43’1 E
Time Zone: GMT + 1 h
Locode: HR VLK
VHF channel: 16
Water and electricity supply - Available
Provision - Available
Medical- Available
Fuel - Available |
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| Port authority Korcula |
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Latitude:
42° 48' N
Longitude: 17° 08' E
Admiralty Chart: 1611
Admiralty Pilot: 47
Time Zone: GMT + 1 h
Locode: HR KOR
VHF channel: 17, 16, 12, 9
Water and electricity supply - Available
Provision - Available
Medical- Available
Fuel - Available |
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Marina Korcula > |
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| Sea
vessels fuel supply - Island of Korcula |
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Vela
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IMPORTANT:
The
Adriatic Sea characteristics are: richnes of life, purity, limpidity
and landscape to be paid a special attention in respect of their
exploitation and preservation. The Adriatic Sea region is still
one of the best preserved areas of the Mediterranean European part.
It is in your and our interest that it remains so. Because of that,
please make sure that your boat tank gets filled up only by the
professional petrol station attendants, in order to avoid accidental,
unintentional fuel spills. If you decide to fuel your boat by yourself,
you assume responsibility for any possible safety endangering.
In case that a fuel spill occurs nevertheless, please allow the
petrol station attendants to take all the measures required for
remediation of any damage.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Lets preserve the Adriatic Sea for future generations too.
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| Useful
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Information
on weather in the Adriatic sea
Ongoing
weather prognosis on VHF - transmitters
Arrival
of vessels by seaway or offshore-way
Declaration
Sailing
compensations and tariffs
Stipulations
on the navigation permit
Persons
check-in and check-out
Vessels
departure by seaway (leaving the coastal sea)
Vessels departure by land
Documents for vessels
Sailing security
Order in harbors and other sea areas
Sailing in national parks and parks of nature
Renting yachts and little crafts
Maintenance and wintering vessels in Croatia
Diving
Water and electricity supply |
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| Information
on weather in the Adriatic sea |
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Coastal
radio stations broadcast information on the weather and weather
prognosis on daily basis for the following 24 hours in Croatian
and in English:
Radio Rijeka UKW channel 24 (05:35h, 14:35h, 19:35h)
Radio Split UKW channels 07, 21, 23, 81 (05:45h, 12:45h, 19:45h)
Radio Dubrovnik UKW channels 07, 04 (06:25h, 13:20h, 21:20h)
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Adriatic
sea forecast
DAILY WEATHER REPORT ISSUED BY THE MARINE METEOROLOGICAL
CENTER SPLIT |
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| Ongoing
weather prognosis on VHF - transmitters |
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Weather
prognosis in roatian, English, Italian and German language for the
are of the Croatian coastal waters are being broadcasted incessantly
each 10 minutes, and are being updated in 07:00h, 13:00h and 19:00h
(local time). They comprise a situational overview, a short prognosis
for the next 24 hours and information on the air pressure.
VHF - channel 73 for northern Adriatic / west coast Istria
VHF - channel 69 for northern Adriatic / eastern part
VHF - channel 67 for southern Adriatic / eastern part
VHF - channel 73 for southern Adriatic / eastern part
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| Arrival
of vessels by seaway or offshore-way |
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If
you are arriving to Croatia on a ship, yacht or a boat by sea-way,
you are obligated to sail in without stopping in one of the harbors
opened to international traffic, that is in one of the harbors in
which there is a seasonal international sea-border crossing.
Harbors opened to international traffic are: Umag, Porec, Rovinj,
Pula, Rasa-Brsica, Rijeka, Mali Losinj, Senj, Maslenica, Zadar,
Sibenik, Split, Ploce, Metkovic, Korcula and Dubrovnik.
Seasonal international sea-borders crossing are: Novigrad (Istria),
Sali, Soline, Primosten, Ravni Zakan, Hvar, Ubli (Island of Lastovo)
and Vis.
Sailing without stopping includes the right of harmless passing
through the territorial sea of Republic of Croatia to the chosen
harbor opened for international traffic. Port of Entry is the point
of sailing in and giving up to passport control and costum clearance.
In case that by reason of force majeure you are obligated to report
yourself to the nearest port-authority or the branch-harbor office
as soon as possible. If you are coming to Republic of Croatia by
an offshore route, you are obligated to verbally report the vessel
to the borders customs. Vessels longer than 3 meters and vessels
shorter than 3 meters of the skimming type (jet ski, gliders) have
to be reported before dropping into sea to the port authority or
the branch-harbor office. Vehicles that are together with the trailer
longer than 18.75 meters or wider than 2.55 meters or higher than
4 meters are allowed to travel on Croatian roads only with a special
permit, which can be obtained with the forwarder. The preparation
of the permit can take some time.
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| Declaration |
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All
vessels longer than 3m, as well as sport and other vessels regardless
of the length with motor over 4KW, have to be reported to the port-authority
or the branch-harbor office.
While reporting the vessel one should submit:
- Identification documents of the crew
- Vessel documentation
- Skippers licence for steering the boat in the coastal area or
open sea
- Skippers licence to use the radio-station, if there is such on
the boat
- Warrant regarding the vessels sailing capacity
- For yachts; list of the crew
- Confirmation of the vessels insurance with regards to responsibility
for damages towards third persons (blue card)
- If the warrant regarding the vessels sailing capacity is not proper
or if it doesnt exist, the port authority has the right to perform
examination of the vessel. You are due to report and verify each
change in the yacht crew in the competent port-authority or the
branch-harbor office.
- The notification is valid for a year starting with the date of
issue, and for more entrances and egressions.
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| Sailing
compensations and tariffs |
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While
reporting the vessel, you are bound to pay: administrative fee,
sailing security toll and fee for using objects of sailing security.
For each sequential repeated arrival, the sailing security toll
is decreased by 10%.
The administrative fee amounts 40 KN.
The sailing security toll amounts for:
- Little boats (depending on length) from 140 to 485 KN
- For Yacht (depending on length) from 525 to 1750 KN
The fee for using objects of sailing security amounts:
- For little boats 12.50 KN x length
- For motor yachts and sail-boats 31 KN x length
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| Stipulations
on the navigation permit |
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The
vessels captain in order to sail in the Croatian coastal waters
have to posses a navigation permit, issued in accordance with the
stipulations on sailing in his own country.
For citizens of Federal Republic of Germany the permit Sportbootfuhrerschein
See, will suffice if the sport vessel is equipped with one motor
over 3.68KW (=5PS). Navigation permits for steering vessels of class
B (coastal navigations) and C (deep-sea navigation) issued by the
Office for deep-sea and offing navigation and the Association for
water sports are also being recognized. Insufficient are the permits:
for sport navigation (class A), Bodensee-Schifferpatent and Rheinschiffer-Patent.
For citizens of Republic of Austria valid are the certificates for
coastal navigation (navigation area 2), for close coastal navigation
(navigation area 3) and deep-sea navigation (navigation area 4).
For citizens of the Swiss Confederation it is necessary to possess
at least deep-sea navigation (8).
Sailing without a navigation permit, entails penal responsibility,
and in case of an accident during sailing also an insurance forfeit.
If you do not own a navigation permit, you can pass a captain exam
in Croatia at the Maritime Affairs Management and in the port-authorities
offices. A captains certificates enables you to steer a motorboat
and a sailboat up to 12m long or 15 GT, as well as to use the boat
VHF station. If you are using a rented boat one member of the crew
has to be qualified for operation with the VHF station.
Person, who have owned a captains certificate for three years, can
approach an exam for a skipper, and that certificate enables steering
boats up to 25 BT.
In Croatia you can acquire a Qualified Yacht skipper Certificate,
by means of preceding schooling and after having passed the required
exams, which enables you to steer yacht up to 100 BT.
Also you can acquire a Qualified GMDSS OPERATOR Certificate with
a general that is limited authorization.
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| Persons
check-in and check-out |
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Within
24 hours after having entered a harbor, a natural cove or an anchorage,
the boats captain is compelled to report the arrival to the competent
police station. As personal identification documents the following
documents are recognized: passport, identity card or some other
personal identification document. A marines reception, a tourist
agency or an office of the tourist community can perform the report
instead of the yachts captain. The same procedure is legitimate
for checking-out. In the process of checking-out one should pay
the local-tourist tax. It is forbidden to perform billed transport
of persons and things in the coastal sea of Republic of Croatia
(cabotage).
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| Vessels
departure by seaway (leaving the coastal sea) |
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Before
leaving Republic of Croatia by seaway, you are obligated to sail
in one of the harbors opened to international traffic, i.e., in
one of the harbors in which there is a seasonal international border
crossing. After you have completed all formalities in the port authoritys
offices or its branch offices, the custom office and the police,
you are obligated to leave the inner and territorial sea waters
of Republic of Croatia in the shortest route available and without
stopping.
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| Vessels
departure by land |
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Vessels
that are leaving Republic of Croatia by land should obligatory check-out
in the port authoritys office or in the branch office.
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| Documents
for vessels |
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In
reporting the vessel with the port authority necessary are documents
on the vessel and legitimate are considered documents which are
issued by the local or legitimate associations in the native country
of the vessel; vessels international identity document, official
flag certificate, ship register. As documents about the sailing
and navigation capacity of the vessel, valid are international documents
of the registration office or registration association.
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| Sailing
security |
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The
sailing security of the navigation experts is subject of concern
of the Management for Maritime Affairs, in the structure of which
are the Central Office for tragedies and life-saving on the sea,
eight port authorities, 63 branch-harbor offices.
The working hours of the central officies and the port authorities
is from 00:00 to 24:00 hours, and the working hours of the branch-harbor
officies are from 07:00 to 13:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00 hours.
The national Central Office for search and saving Rijeka 9155.
Baywatch servicies is organized on VHF channels 10 and 16.
The radio service for sailing security and protection of human lives
on sea, the service for public correspondence, broadcasting meteorological
prognosis and radio advertisements are managed by the coastal radio
station:
Rijeka radio - VHF channels: 16, 24, 20, 04.
Split radio - VHF channels: 16, 21, 23, 07, 81, 70 DSC.
Dubrovnik radio - VHF channels 16, 07, 04.
The
principal port authority Pula
tel: ++385 52 222 867
fax: ++385 52 222 037
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| Order
in harbors and other sea areas |
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In
support of personal security and security of other persons on sea
one should particularly pay attention to the stipulated regulations
about security on sea.
It is forbidden: - in harbors: bathing, gliding, wind surfing, water
skiing;
wind surfing in narrow passages where boats are sailing in a distance
lesser than 50 meters from the coast of a natural beach;
to sail and navigate with motorboats and sailboats in a distance
lesser than 50 meters from the coast;
to swim outside the fenced space of an arranged beach and in distance
that is biger than 100 meters from the natural beach;
to discard remains of mineral oils, plastic, metal, glass and other
containers, as well as all other garbage.
In the water space beside the beaches little boats have to sail
at a distance bigger than 50 meters from the fence of the arranged
beach, that is, 450 meters from the coast of the natural beach.
Gliders may glide only at a distance bigger than 300 meters from
the coast and in an area where gliding is not forbidden. Little
crafts with jet propulsion (jet-ski) are allowed to sail only in
those areas where it is allowed so. All harbors for publictraffic
and navigation tourism have the question of waste disposal and management
solved, as well as the acceptance of waste materials, waters and
waste oils, so the vessles are allowed to empty their waste storages
only in those places. Polluting the sea is a naval offense.
Part of the sea space of the Brijuni archipelago is forbidden for
sail and is restricted with lines which conjoin the points.
Zone I
Cape Vrbanj - cape Kadulja; cape Kadulja - Islet Supinic;
islet Supinic - point A (44 54.8N - 13 42.2E); point A - point B
(44 52.6N - 13 45.1E); point C (44 53.2N - 13 46.0E); point C -
cape Kamnik.
Zone II
The southeastern part of the Brijuni archipelago within the cojoin
cape Karvan - cape Kozlac.
In the western coast of Istria, Limski kanal is closed for sailing,
because of the oyster-fishery. The biggest and most famous natural
reservation is the Kornati archipelago a National Park, which starts
in the south from the passage Proversa Veli (on the east from Dugi
Otok) and reaches the southern cape of the Kornat Island.
This area is subject to a special regime of sailing and anchoring
and special measures for environment protection. For that area,
as well as for some others (particular coves) where fish are bred,
one is supposed to obtain the appropriate instructions on sailing
in the port authority.
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| Sailing
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Sailing
and other activities in parks are allowed only with a permit from
the park and in accordance with the regulations of the Park Management.
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| Renting
yachts and little crafts |
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The
possibility of renting motor yachts, sailing-boats, little crafts
and beach vessels exists in all bigger harbors and marines. You
need documentation from which it is evident that you have the authorization
to steer a craft and that you are qualified for operating with VHF
radio station. Renting can be performed only by registered legal
and physical persons and it is recommendable to make a reservation
for the desired craft in due time.
You can obtain all relevant informatio from:
HGK
- Zupanijska komora Rijeka (Country Chamber Rijeka)
Udruzenje nautickog turizma (Association of Nautical Tourism)
Bulevar oslobodjenja 23
51000 Rijeka
E-mail:
hgkri@hgk.hr
tel: ++385 51 209 111
fax: ++385 51 216 033
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| Maintenance
and wintering vessels in Croatia |
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You
can give in your vessel to be maintained, safeguarded or prepared
for wintering to some authorized person in Croatia, and especially
into one of the 47 modern equipped marines along the Croatian coast
of the Adriatic Sea, which have at their disposal 12437 berths in
sea and 7227 places offshore. Timely reservation of a berth or place
is recommendable.
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| Diving |
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Recreative
and sport diving is allowed only with a proper membership card of
the Croatian Diving Association (Hrvatski ronilacki savez - HRS).
The diving permit is valid for a year from the date of issue and
is issued only to divers with proper diving qualification: CMAS,
PADI, SSI, NAUI, NASDS, YMCA, MDEA, NASE, IDEA, IANTD, NSS-CDS,
ANDI, TDI, NACI, PSA, PDIC, SDI, FIAS, ACUC, BSAC, VDST, BARACUDA,
etc. Temporary diving qualifications are not valid.
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| Water
and electricity supply |
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Water
hookups: mainly 1/2 Zolla, and rarely 3/4 Zolla diameters. Connection
hoses should have a faucet fastener.
Electricity hookups: alternate current (AC) 220V 50Hz. 3-pole euro
socket can be used. It is useful to have a water-resistant extension-cord.
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