Leisurely morning at anchor. Took dinghy ashore to swim in the bay, walk to hot shower at ACI marina on other side and enjoy cooked breakfast of ham and eggs and a cappuccino. Marina now deserted from the two days since we were here - end of season now. Weighed anchor at 11.50. Winds Westerly 4-10kn turning to NE. Motored out of anchorage at Vinogradisce heading for Vinisce just west of Trogir (agh I remember it well!) Distance about 25 miles so ETA 17.00'ish. ('ish became a much used phrase on this trip!) As we came across we passed jumping yellow fin tuna and dolphins!!
14.45 anchored in 4 metres of water just off from the town of Maslinica at northern tip of Brac island for a swim and lunch on deck.
Wind picked up in the afternoon and we managed to sail the last hour to Vinisce at a close reach at 5 knots across the Splitski Kanal (which we had crossed going south). Great end to the day. 17.30 dropped the hook in Vinisce, tiny town (400 inhabitants so even smaller than Gibsons!). Engine on dinghy to go ashore for dinner - two local boats came out to welome us all and invite us to eat at their restaurants. We chose the boat with the young boy and his dog and ate well (pizza, risotto, local fish eg. Scorpion fish very popular here as well as sea bass) bill came to $80 for 5 of us! Group then gathered at other restaurant so as not to leave him out - and drank baileys on ice and shared some sailing adventures from the trip. LOL. One boat has two French ladies on board so the sailing terminology naturally became slightly distorted - "harden the main" became "harden the man" which had us all in stitches. There was another joke referring to the foresail but I'll leave that to your imagination. And of course my boat, Foolish Pleasure, had all sorts of connotations!
Returned, feeling very merry, to our boat for night cap for tomorrow we leave.
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