{"id":11409,"date":"2017-12-26T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/?p=11409\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:40:29","slug":"vishe-radugi-sailed-around-island-vis-found-woman-aboard-brings-bad-luck-just-naval-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flash.hr\/en\/2017\/12\/vishe-radugi-sailed-around-island-vis-found-woman-aboard-brings-bad-luck-just-naval-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Vishe Radugi – we sailed around the island of VIS and found out if a woman aboard brings bad luck or are those just naval stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still clearly remember the advice my old\u00a0mother gave me before I went sailing: \u201cEat a lot of cabbage so you don\u2019t get scurvy!\u201d Namely, everyone from my parents shithole village is an expert in sailing. Magellan is nothing comparing to them. I could not explain to her that I wasn\u2019t going on a trip around the world, just on a three day cruise around Kornati. This year, she was sustained. \u201cYou eat at fancy restaurants, you sail and we\u2019re supposed to starve! I mean who is paying for all that?\u201d Father replied: \u201cCIA, woman! CIA! They have destroyed half of the world, they will destroy him too!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We have decided to redo the entire Kornati trip, but this time we would sail for five days. The only thing we didn\u2019t count on was the fact that this was the busiest nautical season at Jadran ever and it was nearly impossible to find a sailing boat for ten people. Four days before departure we still did not have a boat. I prayed to God and Allah to help me in this impossible mission. One of them must have heard my prayers because I accidentally stumbled upon a monoflot.com<\/a> site and a charter agency Vishe Radugi. I contacted them immediately and got a very nice Russian owner Anna on the line. I don\u2019t know why, but I immediately asked her how come she came to work in Croatia when everyone is running away and how did she even get here. She said: \u201cWhat do you mean how did I get here? On a plane, of course.\u201d She asked me for my name and I proudly said Josip. She said: \u201cOhh, comrade Stalin!\u201d I replied: \u201cNope, comrade Tito.\u201d I apologized right away for my country being an EU \u201cerrand boy\u201c and for introducing visa\u2019s for the Russians and she gratefully said they had one more boat with only four cabins HANSE 445, but it could fit two more people at the saloon and that we could take it if we reserved it right away.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boat was docked at the Ka\u0161tela harbor so we changed our route and chose Vis archipelago instead of Kornati.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting – Marina Ka\u0161tela; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vishe Radugi Yachting – Hanse 445; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the first day we have decided that there would be no discrimination on the boat. In that spirit, I have allowed Ivana of Vishe Radugi Sailing to board my stuff. I knew there was a reason for the women to get equal rights. My job was to make sure all of the hard labour was done properly and I pointed out all those who were slacking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting, Ivana is boarding my Keilwerth saxsophon and B&O Beolit 17 speaker with a smile on her face. My job was to make sure all of the hard labour was done properly and I pointed out all those who were slacking.; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As soon as we entered the boat, I thought of an old village saying: \u201cWomen on board bring bad luck!\u201d If that was true, we were heading for a Titanic type cataclysm because we had five women on board (SOS – PMS). We boarded all the stuff and sailed to the Ston\u010dica cove on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been taking photos the entire time and when you\u2019re on a rocking boat, looking at the camera screen is more dangerous than going to Syria for a summer vacation. I got sick after ten minutes. I\u2019ve heard a murmur in the background: \u201cHe\u2019s got one foot in the grave!\u201d My friends tried to comfort me by singing: \u201cKnock-knock-knockin\u2019 on heaven\u2019s door\u2026\u201d I thought these might be the last photos I will ever take.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting, Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vishe Radugi Yachting; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started with an intro about women bringing bad luck. Along with my nausea on the first day, that theory was confirmed by the fact that in this crazy heat we have lost all our water reserves on the boat. Why? Glad you asked. Someone (read: a girl) didn\u2019t close the shower all the way and the water just poured out. We have decided to go to Vis on Tuesday and fill up the tank. We ate some breakfast, swam a bit and arrived to Vis at 11 o\u2019clock.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting – VIS; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The beauty of the island was overshadowed by the fact that we were late to the harbor because they poured water only until 10am and told us to come tomorrow. If Keith Richards can drink wine the entire day, so can we. We didn\u2019t let the lack of water on the boat ruin our good mood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The lack of water on the boat did not ruin our good mood.:) Photo: Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did not strangle my colleague Kre\u0161o, also known as the king of anticorrosive protection, because of the lack of water, but because of the fact he provoked me with his new SEIKO wrist watch. I wanted to buy one for myself before heading to the coast, one that can go under the water, perfect for sailing, but I didn\u2019t have the time and now I was stuck being jealous at Kre\u0161o like a true Croat and almost strangled him at one point.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Colleague with the new SEIKO watch. Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the crew has separated us, there was no choice left but to take a swim and for that we have chosen a beautiful port Bi\u0161evo. We have decided to sleep over at this gorgeous cove and went to the restaurant for some pancakes before sleep. The owner has said there were so few people on the island outside the season that he goes around the houses in the mornings, checking if there is smoke coming out of them. If there isn\u2019t any smoke, he knows that yet another islander has passed away.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is my colleague Goran jumping on the photo below. He is a designer and an owner of the company ENDEM.HR. Naturally, he did not pay me for this advertisement, but you know, I am a good person so I thought I\u2019d publish the man\u2019s occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting – porat Bi\u0161evo. Colleague Goran is a designer and an owner of the ENDEM.HR company. He did not pay me for this advertisement, but I am a nice person so I’ll mention the man’s occupation.:); Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vishe Radugi Yachting – Doctor and Dear Leader Joe – Bi\u0161evo; Photo: Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vishe Radugi Yachting; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Wednesday, we have sailed to the Blue cave. Unfortunately, we were left under the impression that the whole field trip to the cave was a \u201cTAKE MONEY AND RUN\u201d thing. I mean, the cave was really beautiful and worth seeing but for 70 kuna per person, we have expected a bit more. We didn\u2019t swim in it nor took enough photos because the guide kept hurrying us so that the other boats waiting in line could get in. It was just a plain \u201cfast food\u201d experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Blue cave, we traveled to Komi\u017ea which we were, unfortunately, only able to observe from\u00a0 the deck and afterwards we went to the cove Zakamica to take a swim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting – Doctor and Ana; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the evening we anchored in Vis. We weren\u2019t able to reserve a table for 10 anywhere because that was the day of the Yachting week event and everything was booked. We got drunk on the boat and skipper Neven drove us to the nearby bar in a dingy. Another confirmation of women being bad luck on a boat was his girlfriend Ana who took a romantic dingy ride with him when suddenly, in the middle of the channel, they ran out of fuel. Naturally, they didn\u2019t even have a light. That was more stupid than Captain of Titanic\u2019s decision to say: \u201cFull speed ahead! Fuck the ice!\u201d They were lucky to be noticed by a skipper who was also Neven\u2019s acquaintance. He has saved them in the last second.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vishe Radugi Yachting – VIS; Photo: Dear Leader Joe, Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vishe Radugi Yachting – Vin Diesel for the poor people; Photo: Flash.hr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday we sailed from Vis to the cove Milna to take a swim. We looked around the cove Rukavac, Mala and Vela Travna and the cherry on the top was a nice swim at the most popular cove of the island of Vis – Stiniva. The cove is around 600 m long and surrounded by tall and unreachable stone rocks. Towards the end of the cove, there are a few uninhabited fishermen houses which are, along with the cove, protected as a natural resort. The cove was as full as Dear Leaders labor camp, but in spite of the numerous tourists and boats, this was one of the most beautiful places on the Adriatic which you must certainly visit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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