The Krilo Spreads Its Wings

Objavljeno u Zanimljivosti
As Mara of the excellent blog-website Go Hvar described recently, island hopping in Dalmatia can be "a bit of a challenge", to put it mildly, especially out of season.
It takes perseverance to overcome the obstacles, although it can be done. In Mara's case tenacity resulted in a memorable trip with husband Zdravko to Hvar's near-neighbour Korčula, recorded in a couple of equally memorable descriptions in words and pictures.

In the summer season, island-hopping becomes easier. This year the new high-speed boat service operated by U.T.O. Kapetan Luka linking Split with Milna (Brač), Hvar Town, Korčula and Dubrovnik has already proved a great success since starting on May 15th 2014. It is set to run until October 18th 2014, weather permitting of course. The boat on this route is the sleek-looking Krilo, which means wing in Croatian. The company name of Krilo derives from the place Krilo Jesenice, near Omiš south of Split, which is the home town of the Tomić family who own the company. Krilo Jesenice is famous for having the largest fleet of sailing boats on the Adriatic by long tradition.

The high-speed trip from Split to Dubrovnik takes something less than five hours. It is much quicker than the car ferry along the same route, so it is the best choice if you want to get to your destination as quickly as possible, and are not taking a car with you. The ferry trip, however, has certain advantages: you can be outdoors on the deck relaxing with a good book and a cool drink, and you can enjoy a reasonably good leisurely meal in the restaurant. And if you are taking a car, it saves you the drive down the coast. This avoids having to pass through the small stretch of land which belongs to Bosnia and Hercegovina. Although crossing these borders is rarely a problem, it is an area outside the EU, so the border authorities may perform checks on people and goods passing through.

On the high-speed boat, passengers have to have a seat inside the cabin. Once the boat is full to capacity there is no room for extra passengers. Tickets for the high-speed service can be purchased in Split on the pier in the middle of the port (Gat Sv. Petra, nearly opposite the entrance to the railway station), tel. 00 385 (0)21 645476; in Hvar Town from Pelegrini Tours on the pier, tel. 00 385 (0)21 742743; in Korčula from the kiosk on the western pier, tel. 00 385 (0)91 4770272; in Dubrovnik from the Elite Travel office (Tel 020 313 178), or in the Gruz passenger port office opposite the Hotel Palace. Tickets can also be booked online, but usually still have to be collected in person. We advise buying your ticket as early as possible to ensure you have a place on the boat. You are required to present a valid ID to travel on the ship.

For sailing times, destinations and prices, click here.

U.T.O.Kapetan Luka operates a number of high-speed services between Split and the islands to the south of Split, as well as charter possibilities. The company now concentrates on high-speed vessels, but previously it boasted an extremely fine cruising yacht, the M/Y Kapetan Luka. Built in 1990, when Croatia was just emerging into independence from former Yugoslavia, it survived the ensuing Homeland War (1991 - 1995), and was put to good use as a cruise ship when peace was restored. I first came across it when my cousin Maja and her husband Joži sailed on it into Jelsa harbour with some friends in June 2007. The boat was exquisitely appointed inside and out, and the passengers couldn't praise it highly enough. As Joži is a yachting judge of many years' standing, his wholehearted recommendation carried great weight, and I could see it was well deserved. The 'Kapetan Luka' was later sold to Jerolim Nazor, also from Krilo Jesenice, like the Tomić family from whom he bought this splendid vessel. Jerolim Nazor has for many years run beautifully renovated wooden sailing boats for daytime tourist cruises and night-time fishing. His main vessel in recent times has been the 'Otac Duje', which is also the name of his company. Now known as the 'Kapetan Kuka' the 'Kapetan Luka' is available for private hire through Dream Journey Yachting.

© Vivian Grisogono 2014

Nalazite se ovdje: Home

Eco Environment News feeds

  • Exclusive: Almost 300,000 hours of raw effluent poured into waterways, figures show, up from 196,000 in 2023

    A record 50% more raw sewage was discharged into rivers in England by Thames Water last year compared with the previous 12 months, data seen by the Guardian reveals.

    Thames, the largest of the privatised water companies, which is teetering on the verge of collapse with debts of £19bn, was responsible for almost 300,000 hours of raw sewage pouring into waterways in 2024 from its ageing sewage works, according to the data. This compares with 196,414 hours of raw effluent dumped in 2023.

    The Amersham balancing tanks in Buckinghamshire, which are supposed to safely store excess sewage after heavy rain, discharged 4,842 hours of raw sewage in 2024.

    Amersham was the scene of the longest unbroken individual discharge, when the equivalent of 154 days of raw sewage spilled into the River Misbourne, a chalk stream, last year.

    Marlborough sewage treatment works dumped raw sewage for 2,786 hours.

    At the Chesham sewage treatment works there were 2,681 hours of sewage discharges.

    Continue reading...

  • Ana Toni also criticises the UK’s plans to slash overseas aid to fund defence spending

    Countries looking to boost their national security through rearmament or increased defence spending must also bolster their climate efforts or face more wars in the future, one of the leaders of the next UN climate summit has warned.

    Some countries could decide to include climate spending in their defence budgets, suggested Ana Toni, Brazil’s chief executive of the Cop30 summit.

    Continue reading...

  • Some of the caves I dive in are hundreds of thousands of years old and the marine life is unique. But they can be very dangerous places

    Cave diving is like swimming through the history of the planet. There are remains of both humans and animals but also stalactites and stalagmites. These cannot form when the cave is flooded, so you can see when parts of it were submerged and when it was dry.

    Yet when I’m in a cave, time does not tick. There is no natural light, so the cave looks the same, whether it’s midday or midnight. If you cave dive without the right training, equipment and mindset, it can be a very dangerous place. I have a very meditative focus when I’m down there. I live in the now. I cannot think about anything else but what is happening in the cave. I find that very soothing and relaxing.

    Continue reading...

  • Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

    Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies.

    Sardine and anchovy fishing will not be allowed for 12 miles (20km) around the penguin colony off Cape Town on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and Bird Island, across the bay from Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth. There will be more limited closures around four other colonies, according to a court order formalising the agreement.

    Continue reading...

  • Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

    Kemi Badenoch is dropping her party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, as she launches the Conservatives’ widest policy review in a generation.

    The Tory leader will give a speech on Tuesday in which she will argue that hitting Britain’s legally binding climate target is “impossible”, abandoning one of the most significant policies enacted by her recent predecessor Theresa May.

    Continue reading...

  • Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in Amazon

    Edelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

    The summit is set to take place in November in the city of Belém on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, which has been ravaged by deforestation linked to Brazil’s powerful agriculture industry. For the first time, the talks will be “at the epicenter of the climate crisis”, the summit’s president wrote last week. “As the Cop comes to the Amazon, forests will naturally be a central topic,” he added.

    Continue reading...

  • New study finds dolphins, including critically endangered Burrunan, have among the world’s highest levels of chemicals banned decades ago

    It has been half a century since governments around the world, faced with overwhelming evidence, started banning early generations of what we now call forever chemicals. Industrial chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and the notorious pesticide DDT had been widely used – DDT is credited with saving millions of lives from insect-borne disease, while PCBs were vital in electrical safety – before it was understood that they were serious environmental toxins.

    “The problem with these legacy contaminants,” environmental scientist Chantel Foord says, “is that they’re amazing in our products because they don’t break down, but they’re equally devastating in our environment because they don’t break down.”

    Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

    Continue reading...

  • Witnessing near-miss roadkill on a daily basis makes me wonder if we can be better neighbors to wildlife

    Heart racing, I hold my breath and brace to witness the impact.

    The spindly fawn crosses first, tottering its way across the two-lane artery that borders my house. I watch a truck approaching in the opposite direction and wait for it to slow down. Will it?

    Continue reading...

  • Vast Simandou complex has 2.8bn tonnes of iron ore deposits, but many worry about its environmental cost

    Deep in the south of Guinea lies Simandou, an impressive mountain range with a lucrative underbelly: the world’s largest untapped iron ore deposits, amounting to an estimated 2.8bn tonnes.

    In 2013, it was at the centre of one of the biggest mining financial scandals in history, stemming from an ownership tussle over development licenses awarded in the 1990s during the regime of the west African country’s former authoritarian president Lansana Conté .

    Continue reading...

  • From the earthquake-defying joints that support a 13th-century temple to the delicacy of sashimono puzzle boxes, a new exhibition shows off the myriad possibilities of this centuries-old craft

    Do you know your ant’s head from your shell mouth? Or your cogged lap from your scarfed gooseneck? These are just some of the mind-boggling array of timber jointing techniques on display in a new exhibition spotlighting the meticulous craft of Japanese carpentry. The basement gallery of London’s Japan House has been transformed into a woody wonder world of chisels and saws, mortises and tenons, and brackets of infinite intricacy, alongside traditional clay plastering, shoji paper screen making and tatami mat weaving. It is a dazzling display of the phenomenal skills behind centuries of timber architecture and joinery, celebrating elite master carpenters with the spiritual reverence of a high priesthood.

    “In Japan we have a deep respect for our forests,” says curator Nishiyama Marcelo, who heads up the team at the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe, a temple to the history of Japanese joinery. “If a carpenter uses a 1,000-year-old tree, they must be prepared to take on more than 1,000 years of responsibility for the building that they create.”

    It is a momentous duty, and one we should heed. As debates around the embodied carbon of the built environment dominate the construction industry, there could be no more timely exhibition to remind us of the importance of designing with longevity, care and repair in mind. Numerous specialist tools have been shipped over from the Kobe museum, along with a team of master carpenters who have built a remarkable series of structures in the gallery, replicating parts of buildings that have lasted for hundreds of years in the face of wind, rain, snow and earthquakes.

    Continue reading...

Novosti: Cybermed.hr

Novosti: Biologija.com

Izvor nije pronađen