Boating around the world

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Do you every look at Google Maps and fantasize what it would be like to boat somewhere? I do this mostly in MX (Sea of Cortez/Baja) and have been lucky enough to go from time to time.

I've been hearing a good bit about Croatia lately. Not for boating, but in general. Really cheap, beautiful, and really pretty girls.

Any hoo, I decided to look at it on the map. Wow, just wow. Look at all those islands off shore. That has to be some pristine waters. What do you think it's like? Probably some wild tide ranges? Anyone ever been?

Where do you think about going.

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I was in Dubrovnik, Croatia, a couple of months ago and saw beautiful waters and well protected cruising areas. the tide range in the Mediterranean (and the "tributaries") is only a foot or so. The water all gets throttled through the straights of Gibralter.

I don't think the crystal clear waters harbor much fish. I'm used to seeing algae and stuff on the US east coast as a major part of the food chain with lots of fish.
 
Croatia is one of the biggest charter market... Especially sail
 
Croatia is also a hotbed area for kidnapping Westerner's. It might look beautiful but you need your situational awareness senses to be on high alert.
Bill
 
I've been all over the world. Not in a boat, but have done boating and SCUBA diving in a lot of placed around the world. IMHO, none prettier than the Exumas.

Bob
 
Lot's of Croat/Serb stuff on YouTube too. Home made tractors and such. Your photo Map makes look interesting to me.
There has to be some kind of Sea life because they have Fishing boats.
 
I'm tempted, once we retire, to ship this boat on a freighter to Europe and do the canals. But I'll be checking out the Exumas first. I respect circumnavigators, but have no such drive myself.
 
Croatia is beautiful. Even though the water is real clear, the locals say it is polluted, but the gov't is starting to clean it up.
They have rock docks. They cut rock steps to the water and hook on to a moring ball and back up, then tie off to metal spikes drilled into the rocks.
Lots of buildings are several hundred years old, if not thousands.
 
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