Serious, prepared, kind and helpful. Good judgment

Quite early we had decided not to cruise to Croatia, because we did not respond the whole clear in and out. We were two couples and an adult son with about two decades sailing experience. Nevertheless, we took the hint of an employee of Jonathan, who advised us to stay in port the next day, because a strong wind was ablandiger announced. Then we appealed a harbor day and visited the cave system in Skocja that is more impressive than the Postojna caves and counts to one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In the evening on the Dufour 34 the predicted wind came (name forgotten but unfortunately it was not the Bora - should occur about twice a year, duration about 30 minutes), put us across the harbor and one of our vorderdalben broke. A prudent harbor worker helped us with the boat and put on new dews. Since we had plenty of time, we were firmly on the way to Venice and back in different ports and had good service from the harbor workers in all. In Italy itself one must also 40 - to 50-euro pay mooring fees for a '34, but the port facilities were also good accordingly. Unfortunately, we did not have an enough good Lagoon map, so we could not drive into the small arms of the Lagoon. For this we used the Valporettas (water buses / ferries) and drove to various islands. On its own bug, it went to Chioggia (Venice for the poor), and from there back to Slovenia along the coast. Here then we met one of the great turtles that we had not suspected in this place of the Adriatic Sea. About 3 months after the cruise we got a mail from the Marina Hannibal from Monfalcone. We had paid in cash there and they sent us the receipt back home because everything was written in perfect Italian, it took a while until we found out that it was not about a new bill but the receipt. To the wind we can say that it was perfect for a relaxing holiday trip (2-4), with some few Thunderstorm turned 180 degrees and then suddenly went up to 7. Mosquitoes came the night before, but could be endured mainly because there were not too many. A little unfortunate it is that although we had charts of Italy, however, had left the lagoon cards in Germany and Italy, no cards (only orientation to Croatia) were on board. Disturbing were the many solid west, the excess we packed into the car. Here they should mainly provide automatic jackets.

Everything went well, except for a small damage to the joint of the drive shaft, not predictable, however, and resolved in a day thanks to the timely intervention of Istion, who sent a boat with the mechanics. It would have been useful to allow us to stay in the boat on the evening of arrival (the boat was moored) but Istion, after hearing the owner, does not have it enabled. Excellent in every case the assistance provided by Marenauta.

It was the desire to try the catamaran that has led us to the Pontine Islands and we were satisfied, a nice time...then the islands are truly "special".

It has been a week nice, quiet but fun.

We rented through Marenauta a sailboat Oceanis Clipper 361 in June 2012. We boarded from Salivoli Friday night with return on Monday evening and we circumnavigated the Elbe counterclockwise. Good booking service (all via email) and then information before departure. In the days before we received weather information, contacts of the various ports on Elba and suggestions on the route to follow (thanks also to the staff of Timecharter to Salivoli). We had some problems with the boat (which, however, had his years) but the staff was always available by phone. Overall great holiday and good service from Marenauta.