ELEGANZA

Eleganza — Croatia A gulet cruising the Croatian coast, Eleganza came out of a refit completed in 2023 — a useful thing to know, because it shows in the details that matter most on this type of yacht. Start with the bathrooms. Finished entirely in marble, with plumbing that behaves exactly like its shore-based equivalent, they are genuinely uncommon aboard a gulet, where compromise in the bathrooms is usually the rule rather than the exception. Accommodation is arranged in five cabins for ten guests. The owner's cabin is exceptional by any standard at 22 m² / 237 sq ft, and the four remaining cabins each offer a double bed across 10 m² / 108 sq ft — comfortably above the average for a yacht of this kind, and close enough in standard to be considered VIP rather than secondary. Detailed bed configuration on request. Gulets are large, heavy vessels that need real wind to sail, and no one will pretend otherwise. But when the conditions line up, the crew will hoist the foresails and let her settle into a quiet downwind slide — the moment the engines fall silent is the one guests tend to remember. The crew is young and genuinely enthusiastic, and they work ahead of you rather than around you: everything prepared in advance, so the day unfolds without you having to organise it. Captain, chef and deckhands cover the whole of it while you watch the Adriatic go past. At anchor, the tender doubles as a tow boat for water skiing and donut rides, with a jet ski, a canoe and a paddleboard on hand for everyone else — enough to keep younger guests busy well past the point where their thumbs would otherwise take over.