The bad weather has now past and we decided to make a very short trip to a big mooring buoy field at Soline. It was only going to be 8 miles and so we were in no rush to depart. This was just as well. We watched the charter boats streaming out, and were glad that we were largely out of their way. People experiencing their first opportunity to handle a strange boat are best avoided.
We wanted to top up with fuel and could see the fuel berth
and were trying to stay at our mooring until we could get alongside without
having to gill around for ages. This meant however, that it was not obvious
that we were in a queue. Various other boats came and seeing no one ahead of
them, went straight to the dock. One very small boat
managed to moor right in the middle of the fuel dock, and received several loud
blasts of a bigger boat’s horn to tell them to move to one end or the other, so
that another boat could get in.
Eventually the way was clear, and we topped up the fuel tanks without
incident.
A big proportion, nearly half of the trip was just leaving
the harbour area of Pula, it is several miles to the harbour entrance. The rest
of the trip was going to be short and largely off the wind, so we concluded it wasn’t
worth setting full sail, and so we just used the jib. All very easy.
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| We played the game of "Spot the harbour wall". Some bits are easy to see, other rather harder! |
We had chosen Soline because it offers a buoy field with plenty of shelter. After we had negotiated the narrow and in places, shallow entrance between headlands and island, it opened out into probably the biggest buoy field we have seen, with the exception of Poole harbour. There must have been more than 100 visitor buoys. It must be packed in high summer to justify so many buoys. We settled in for a peaceful night.
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| With the inevitable glorious sunset... |
Miles Today - 8
Miles 2022 – 1217
Steve (and Tricia)
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