PEPE

PEPE — Lagoon 46, Croatia Some coastlines are best read slowly. Croatia's is one of them: more than 1,200 islands, a shoreline that keeps folding back on itself into bays, inlets, coves and sea caves, with a new anchorage waiting a few miles further on. PEPE, a Lagoon 46 catamaran refitted in 2025, is built for exactly that kind of cruising — shallow draft, wide deck spaces, and the steadiness that lets a group spread out without ever feeling on top of one another. She welcomes up to 10 guests. Your BellaYacht advisor will confirm the exact cabin configuration for your dates. What sets a Croatian charter apart is rarely the itinerary on paper — it's the person reading the chart. PEPE's skipper knows the Adriatic in the way only a local can, and the real value shows in the balance he strikes: the harbour towns worth the detour, alongside the quiet bays that never make the guidebooks. Tell him how you like to spend a day on the water and the week arranges itself around that, rather than the other way round. He also cooks. Alongside the expected grill work, he prepares peka — the traditional Dalmatian method of slow-cooking under a bell-shaped lid buried in embers — which is as close as a charter gets to being invited into a Dalmatian home. Between that, the culture ashore and the swimming stops in between, the region does most of the work; the skipper simply makes sure you are in the right place at the right hour. A relaxed, well-run catamaran charter for families and groups of friends who want Croatia properly, not hurriedly.