About us

Fishing came first

The tours are the newer thing. Fishing is what this family has done on the Adriatic for generations, and it is still what most of us do once the season closes and the last guests fly home.

We say that because it explains the rest. It is why we know which bays stay flat when the jugo gets up, which cove is empty at eleven in the morning in August, and where the fish actually are. That is not something you can research. You get it from working the same water your family worked.

Every one of us came through the Maritime Faculty

We all studied at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Split. That is where the licences come from, and the navigation, and the safety training that you hope never becomes relevant.

The local knowledge we grew up with. The rest we were taught properly. It means the person at the helm reads a forecast rather than hoping, and knows what to do on the one day out of a hundred when the sea has other ideas.

The stops are the excuse. The story is the point.

Anyone can move twelve people between five islands. What we want is for you to come back knowing something about the place you just spent a day in.

Why a harbour was built where it was and who built it. What the tunnel cut into the cliff on Brač was actually for. Why the light inside the Blue Cave works for two hours and not all day. What the tuna pens moored in open water mean for the economy of these islands. None of that is on the ticket, and all of it is the reason to come with us rather than with the boat next to us.

Places most boats do not go

Working this coast for a living leaves you with a list of places nobody puts on a route: a cove that is sheltered when everywhere else is not, a bay that is empty in the middle of the day, a stretch of cliff worth slowing down for.

Those are the stops we are proudest of, and they are the ones guests remember. On a private day the skipper builds the route around them and around what your group actually enjoys, rather than around a timetable written in an office.

We like doing this

Worth saying plainly, because a lot of operators would not. We enjoy the work. There are days in August when the alarm at half past five is hard, and then you round Bisevo at nine with the light coming up and remember why the job is worth having.

It also shows. A crew that wants to be on the water runs a better day than a crew counting the hours, and guests can tell the difference within twenty minutes of leaving the Riva.

What we will not do

We do not run the Green Cave, on any route. It is a genuine thing to want to see and the detour does not fit a day that already crosses open water twice, so we say no rather than promise it and rush the rest.

We do not claim ratings we cannot show you. The 4.96 on the homepage comes from 341 Airbnb reviews and links straight to them. There is no aggregate rating in our structured data, because we do not collect reviews on this site and inventing one would be the easiest lie on the internet to tell.

And we do not go out in weather that would ruin the day. The skipper calls it in the morning, on wind and swell rather than cloud, and if it cannot run you move the date or take everything back including the deposit.