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The Crew of Antigone and Vega decided a day of shore leave was required and we decided to head off into the Montenegrin mountains on a rafting trip on the Tara River. The Tara river forms (in part) the border between Montenegro and Bosnia and aparently runs through the deepest gorge in Europe. It was... Continue Reading →
As you arrive into Montenegro by yacht, you are treated to a spectacular site. Steep, green mountains give way to rocky peaks that rise to 2000m straight out of the sea. It’s a bit like being on a yacht, right in the middle of the Alps and after the flat, low lying Italian coast it was... Continue Reading →
We left Monopoly in Italy bound for Montenegro, a small county wedged between Croatia, Algeria, Serbia and Bosnia Hertzegovina. The passage was 120NM and took us 23 hours. The wind was mainly light and just forward of the beam allowing us to sail straight for Montenegro at about 4 knots. Around midday the wind got really... Continue Reading →
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