Zadar catamaran charter
itineraries.
Zadar, in the broker’s words.
The Zadar charter cluster sits at the north end of central Dalmatia — Marina Sukošan and Marina Kornati Biograd are the main bases, with Marina Tankerkomerc on the Zadar town quay as the third option. Catamarans dominate the local fleet because the headline destination is the Kornati National Park (around 110 islands, mostly uninhabited, sheltered shallow-water anchorages); the wide-beam shallow-draft catamaran sits inside the protected coves at 4–6 metres on sand seabeds where deeper-keel monohulls have to stand offshore.
The wind regime is gentler than the southern Dalmatian coast — the Maestral builds from the south-west at 3–5 Beaufort through summer, but the Bura katabatic threat from the Velebit massif is sharper here than further south (gusts above 30 knots have been recorded across the channel into Pag with little warning). Catamaran crews check the marine forecast before any leg west of the Velebit shadow line. The Jugo (south-easterly) is rare in summer but builds through autumn into 3-metre swells.
Headline catamaran anchorages include Telašćica Bay on Dugi Otok (the long fjord-like inlet with the 100-metre cliff overlooks and the salt lake on the southern shore), Žakan and Levrnaka inside the Kornati National Park (mooring-only zones, restaurant-buoy taverna nights, the photogenic Kornati seascape), Pag Town on the western shore of the Pag salt-flats island (catamarans anchor on sand off the medieval centre), and the Pakleni Islands chain west of Hvar (sheltered south-coast coves for the Hvar nightlife crews on the way south).
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