Croatia: Sailing the Dalmatian Coast

European tourists, especially Germans, Czechs and Italians, have been discovering Croatia?s Mediterranean beauty for years. Yet the republic, formed in December 1990, on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea with some 1,185 islands, islets and reefs stretching along its Dalmatian coast, does not seem well known among American travelers.

Invited to sail in Croatia in late September by Boulderites Jim and Lina Beckley, nine of us toured the country and sailed to several of its islands on a 51-foot boat through a Moorings charter. Of course, we also met three other couples from Boulder also sailing from the same charter…