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470 European Championships 2009
Croatian sailors Šime Fantela and Igor Marenić won the men’s 470 class at the European championships at Traunsee Lake, Upper Austria on Sunday 14th of June.
Fantela and Marenić are members of Sv. Krševan Club (Zadar, Croatia) and are the first Croatian gold-medal winners in an Olympic class in more than 30 years.
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A peaceful sandy lagoon on the Island of Mljet
The Island of Mljet in Croatia is well known for its National Park, a beautiful display of nature that rejuvenates the body and mid with peaceful pine forests, scenic coastline and magnificent sea lakes.
To take it even a step further, set sail to the very south-eastern point [...]
Sailing Boats Croatia are following the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009. Check Google Earth for real time updates. Leg 07 across the Atlantic looks very exciting and very close at the moment. It is way too soon to call a winner for the Glaway stopover but all eyes are closely on Irish entries Delta Lloyd and Green [...]
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Luxury Yacht Princess 62
The Princess 62 combines high performance with spacious accommodation and dynamic good looks. The hull design has been carefully configured to combine outstanding seaworthiness with high speeds so as to allow extended fast cruising whilst retaining simple and straightforward handling characteristics which are further enhanced through power assisted steering, electronic engine [...]
Ferretti 881 Hard Top Luxury Yacht
Base: Split, Croatia
Built: 2008
Length over all: 27.03 m
Beam: 6,72 m
Water tank: 1 320 l
Fuel tank: 9 000 l
Engine: 2 X 2200 HP MTU
Generator: Yes
Avg. consumption: 700 l/h
Cruising Speed: 26 kts
Max. speed: 30 kts
Cabins: 4
Berths: 8
Toilets: 4
Crew: 4
Ferretti 881 Salon:
HD LCD TV 84 cm, SAT TV, Dream box, SONY BlueRay [...]
The unavoidable weather question has a region-specific answer as Croatia’s climate is determined by its geography which is a mixture of a long littoral, high mountains and plains.
There are predominantly two climate regions with some variations: Continental and Mediterranean. A chain of high Dinaric Mountains separates the two and can also be separated as [...]
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