La Pellegrina 1
164FT · MOTOR YACHT
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12 Guests · 6 Cabins · 11 Crew
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Viajes en yate con tripulación — catamarán y yate a motor — en la Bahía de Kotor y la costa montenegrina: las murallas medievales de Kotor en la cabecera interior de la bahía, la silueta de Sveti Stefan desde el mar y la única marina de superyates con calificación Platino del Adriático, en Tivat.
Por qué Montenegro
Sesenta millas náuticas de costa entre Croacia y Albania, la mayor parte resguardada dentro de la Bahía de Kotor — un largo valle inundado encerrado entre montañas a ambos lados. La ciudad medieval de Kotor se asienta en la cabecera interior, con murallas y campanarios al pie de las fortificaciones de piedra que escalan la roca sobre el casco antiguo. La navegación en sí es tranquila. Saltos cortos entre bahías. Restaurantes con nombre a los que se llega a pie desde el muelle. El ancladero frente a Sveti Stefan para nadar en la costa abierta al sur de la bahía. No hay otro lugar en el Mediterráneo donde el agua encuentre la roca de esta manera.
Dos travesías recorren esta costa con fluidez. El viaje de ida y vuelta por la Bahía de Kotor desde Tivat es la semana más pausada — siete noches dentro de la bahía y la costa abierta al sur, con el ancladero frente a Sveti Stefan y una cena junto al muelle en Porto Montenegro como dos momentos estelares. La travesía de Dubrovnik a Kotor en un solo sentido es la opción más destacada — embarque en Croacia, una sola mañana de cruce de frontera el segundo día, desembarque en Porto Montenegro tras dejar Sveti Stefan. Esta semana de cruce atrae a la mayoría de los clientes que repiten en el Adriático; los capitanes que trabajan ambas costas la navegan cada temporada. Para diez o catorce noches, un viaje más largo encadena una semana dálmata al principio y recorre ambos países en un único alquiler.
Dos marinas de nivel superyate — Porto Montenegro en Tivat y D-Marin Portonovi en Herceg Novi — y una flota que en su mayoría baja desde Croacia para las reservas. Los catamaranes de Touch Adriatic, los barcos de Sail Dalmatia y un pequeño segmento de yates a motor se reposicionan en la Boka bajo petición. Se aplican precios mediterráneos más gastos (APA prefundado al 25-30% de la base, propina del 10-15%, salidas de sábado a sábado). La diferencia de coste que conviene conocer: Montenegro aplica un 0% de IVA al alquiler comercial de yates de pabellón extranjero y no cobra aranceles sobre el combustible — una excepción única en el Mediterráneo. Con el mismo yate y la misma tarifa base, una semana en Montenegro ahorra el 13% que cobraría Croacia. Para la semana con cruce de frontera, el capitán registra el tiempo en aguas de cada país y el agente de yate liquida el prorrateo croata al final del viaje.
Cuatro razones por las que la Bahía de Kotor no se parece al resto del Mediterráneo.
La Bahía de Kotor está flanqueada a ambos lados por montañas que se elevan directamente desde el agua. Kotor — medieval, amurallada, Patrimonio UNESCO desde 1979 — se asienta al pie de la cabecera interior, a un paseo desde el muelle. Una escalinata de piedra sube por la roca sobre el casco antiguo hasta el pequeño Castillo de San Juan en la cima, noventa minutos de ida y vuelta en la hora más fresca antes del atardecer. En ningún otro lugar del Mediterráneo el agua encuentra la roca a esta escala.
A tres millas náuticas de distancia en el extremo exterior de la bahía se encuentran las únicas dos marinas de nivel superyate del Adriático oriental entre Dubrovnik y Corfú. Porto Montenegro en Tivat fue construida sobre una antigua base submarina de la Marina yugoslava y hoy alberga yachts de hasta 250 metros — cinco veces ganadora del Gold Anchor Award y la marina con calificación Platino más al sur del Mediterráneo. D-Marin Portonovi en Herceg Novi da servicio a yates boutique de hasta 120 metros, con el One&Only Portonovi en el muelle, aduana e inmigración in situ y el centro de longevidad Chenot Espace detrás del hotel. Ambos muelles gestionan el ritmo diario — aprovisionamiento, repostaje, reservas en restaurantes — sin la fricción que generan los puertos más pequeños del Adriático.
Montenegro no cobra IVA sobre el alquiler comercial de yates de pabellón extranjero — es el único destino mediterráneo en hacerlo. Croacia cobra un 13%. Grecia, un 12%. Francia y Mónaco aplican un 20%. España, un 21%. Italia, un 22%. El país tampoco cobra IVA sobre el combustible. En una semana base de 50.000 $, eso equivale a 6.500 $ que Croacia sí cobraría; en 100.000 $, son 13.000 $. Para la semana con cruce de frontera, el IVA croata se aplica de forma proporcional a los días en aguas croatas — el capitán registra el tiempo y el agente de yate hace la liquidación al final del viaje.
El pueblo medieval fortificado de Sveti Stefan se asienta a cien metros de la costa en su propia isla — tejados de terracota sobre antiguas murallas de piedra, unida al continente por una estrecha calzada de piedra. El resort Aman gestionó la isla de 2009 a 2021 y actualmente se encuentra cerrado por una disputa legal con el gobierno montenegrino; la silueta desde el mar no se ve afectada. El ancladero frente a la isla es la excursión de natación más destacada de la semana — seis metros de agua cristalina, la isla a cien metros de la proa, y los restaurantes del pueblo accesibles en bote auxiliar desde el barco.
A hand-picked selection of crewed charter yachts for Montenegro — yachts and crews we know firsthand.
Your week is shaped around your group's interests, the season, and the conditions on the water — your captain tailors the days as they unfold. Treat these itineraries as starting points for inspiration.
Crewed Itinerary · Montenegro
Sailing Montenegro is the Adriatic week without the customs day on the front — seven nights round-trip from Tivat through the full Bay of Kotor and out to the Sveti Stefan offshore swim day. The pace is deliberately slow. The bay is small enough that the captain anchors twice a day on most days, so the marquee stops — Kotor's medieval walls, Perast's baroque waterfront and the church on the made-island, the Sveti Stefan silhouette offshore, the marina quay at Tivat — are all within an easy run of each other. About seventy nautical miles end to end, with no leg longer than twenty-five.
The route works on any well-found yacht — sailing yacht, crewed catamaran, or motor yacht. Inside the bay is flat protected water; the mountain wall blocks the prevailing summer winds. The open coast outside Herceg Novi catches the Adriatic Maestral downwind in the afternoons. Touch Adriatic's catamarans, the Sail Dalmatia fleet, and a small motor-yacht segment work this coast regularly, repositioning south from Croatia for the booking. The captain and chef onboard handle the chart, the dinner reservations, the cruising vignette and the harbor formalities. Saturday-to-Saturday at Porto Montenegro, 0% Montenegrin charter VAT on the base rate.
Sailing Montenegro is the slower Adriatic week — seven days round-trip from Tivat through the full Bay of Kotor and out to the Sveti Stefan offshore swim day. Marquee stops on every day, no customs paperwork on the front end, and a pace deliberately set for guests who want to anchor twice a day rather than cover ground. About 70 nautical miles total. No leg longer than 25.
The bay is flat protected water and the open coast outside Herceg Novi runs downwind on the prevailing summer Maestral, so the route works cleanly on a crewed catamaran, a sailing yacht, or a motor yacht. For the cross-border version — embark in Dubrovnik, cross on day two, finish in the bay — see the Adriatic Crossing itinerary. For ten or fourteen nights covering both countries, an extended trip chains a Dalmatian week onto the front of that one and runs both countries on a single charter.
Day 1 of 7 · Tivat → Kotor
The charter begins at Porto Montenegro, a ten-minute taxi ride from Tivat (TIV) airport on the inner Bay of Kotor. Captain and chef meet guests on the dock, walk through the yacht, stow the luggage, and cover the chart for the week ahead. The marina is the southernmost superyacht infrastructure in the Mediterranean — the first Platinum-rated marina in the world, five-time Gold Anchor Award winner, capacity to 250 meters. Early afternoon to settle in. Lunch on board at the quay or ashore at Murano (Regent Porto Montenegro).
Once provisioning is squared away, lines off for the short eight-nautical-mile run through the Verige Strait narrows into the inner bay. The strait — the 340-meter gateway between the outer (Tivat) and inner (Risan + Kotor) bays — is the bay's iconic photograph, and the moment the cruising ground reveals what it is: Mt. Lovćen's wall rising seventeen-hundred meters straight out of the water on the south side, the mountain villages of Stoliv and Prčanj on the north. Anchor or stern-to off the Old Town walls at Kotor as the afternoon light comes in.
Climb the fortifications before sunset — twelve-hundred meters of wall up the mountain face, the Old Town and the bay below opening up at each switchback. Come back to the yacht for the chef's first dinner — Mediterranean plus-expenses pricing means most evenings are dinner ashore at a harbor restaurant, but tonight's the welcome aboard. Tomorrow's dinner is reserved at Galion or Bocalibre Kotor in the Old Town, walked from the quay.
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Day 2 of 7 · Kotor → Perast
Morning at anchor under the Kotor walls, breakfast on the aft deck, the chef putting together what comes next. Lines off mid-morning for the short four-nautical-mile run across the inner bay to Perast, the baroque town that faces the bay's two islets — Our Lady of the Rocks on the left (artificial, the church built on a foundation of sunken-ship ballast accumulated over two hundred years by Perast's mariners) and St. George on the right (natural, Benedictine monastery, closed to visitors).
Anchor off Perast, tender to the islet for a thirty-minute walk through the baroque church and the small museum upstairs — the votive paintings collected over centuries from sailors returning home, the silver hand-beaten plates that line the walls. Back to the yacht, lunch on board or ashore at Conte Restaurant on the Perast waterfront — the fish-of-the-day from the morning boats, a glass of Vranac (Montenegro's signature red), a slow afternoon by the mountain-wall light off the water.
Move the yacht to the Perast town quay for the evening or stay at anchor; both work. The town walks end to end in twenty minutes — the seventeenth-century Bujović Palace, the church of St. Nicholas with its bell tower, the small museum of Perast's maritime history (the town once produced one of the largest captains' schools in the Adriatic). Dinner ashore at Conte or Otok Bronza; the captain books either.
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Day 3 of 7 · Inner bay → Luštica
Out through the Verige Strait mid-morning, then west past the Stoliv villages and through the outer bay toward the Luštica peninsula at the bay's mouth. The Luštica is one of the bay's two flanking peninsulas — Vrmac to the north, Luštica to the south — and the only part of the cruising ground with anchorages in genuinely open Adriatic water rather than the bay's protected pool.
Anchor in Žanjic Bay, the cleanest swim anchorage on the peninsula. Tender to the Blue Cave (Plava Špilja) just around the headland — the sea-cave on the Luštica's outer coast, less famous than Croatia's Blue Cave at Biševo but with comparable internal light and almost no crowds outside the Croatian-day-boat hours. Swim inside or use the tender to enter; both work.
Lunch on board at anchor or tender across to Mamula Island for an early-afternoon walk through the fortress. Mamula was built by the Austro-Hungarians in the 1850s, used as a Yugoslav prison-camp in WWII, and reopened in 2023 as a Marriott Autograph Collection wellness hotel — the rebuild stabilized the buildings rather than erasing what they were, and the on-island restaurant takes lunch reservations from yacht-guests via VHF. Optional dinner ashore there in the evening, or back to anchor in Žanjic for a quieter night.
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Day 4 of 7 · Luštica → Sveti Stefan
Lines off Luštica in the morning for the longest day of the week — twenty-five nautical miles south down the open coast to Sveti Stefan, about three hours under power or a downwind sail in the prevailing summer Maestral. The route runs outside Herceg Novi's outer beaches, past Budva (optional old-town walk ashore for a short lunch) and Bečići, and into the offshore anchorage at Sveti Stefan.
Sveti Stefan is the Montenegro photograph — a fifteenth-century walled village on a small island a hundred meters off the mainland, connected by a thin stone causeway. The Aman Sveti Stefan resort operated the island from 2009 through 2021 and is currently closed in a legal dispute with the Montenegrin government; the silhouette remains the iconic shot of the charter and the offshore anchorage is still the best swim day of the week. Drop the swim ladder, drop the platform, drop into the water — the bottom shows clean at six meters and the island sits a hundred meters off the bow.
Lunch on board, slow afternoon at anchor, possibly tender to the village above the mainland beach for a walk before dinner. Dinner aboard tonight; the closed Aman dining room is the obvious loss, and the village restaurants (Restaurant Bar Olympia, Konoba Blaž in Pržno) are open but not at the level the captain or chef can compete with in the galley. The chef will know.
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Day 5 of 7 · Sveti Stefan → Portonovi
Lines off Sveti Stefan after morning swims, twenty-five-nautical-mile return north back along the open coast. Lunch on board underway or anchored briefly in Žanjic for a swim before pushing west to Herceg Novi at the bay's outer end. The seventeenth-century Forte Mare fortress sits above the town on the inbound approach.
Berth at D-Marin Portonovi for the night — the Adriatic's first One&Only on the quay, 120-meter capacity at the marina, on-site customs and immigration for guests arriving by yacht. The hotel sits directly on the marina with the Chenot Espace wellness facility behind it (the longevity-and-fitness program is the Adriatic's most serious — IV nutrition, biomarker testing, the cold-plunge / sauna / contrast cycle), and La Veranda is the dinner room.
Dinner ashore at La Veranda is the marquee meal of the charter. Reservations book a week ahead in peak season; the captain coordinates. The kitchen is Mediterranean — local seafood, slow-cooked Montenegrin lamb, an Adriatic wine list with depth on Vranac and Krstač (the white grape grown on the limestone soils of the inner bay). Optional Chenot Espace appointment in the morning for guests interested.
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Day 6 of 7 · Herceg Novi → Tivat
Morning at Portonovi — breakfast on the aft deck, optional Chenot Espace appointment for guests interested in the wellness facility. Lines off mid-morning for the run back through the Verige Strait to Tivat. Fourteen nautical miles, about two hours under power. The Verige passage looks different on the inbound — the inner bay opens behind the narrows rather than ahead of them, and Stoliv and Prčanj sit on the western shore at water level under Mt. Vrmac.
Berth at Porto Montenegro mid-afternoon. The marina runs along a long quay south of the village; the Heritage Collection shipyard sits along the waterfront, the Naval Museum at the south end (built from the Yugoslav submarine pens that were here before the marina), and a row of cafes and shops between. Walk the marina end-to-end in twenty minutes. Lunch on board or ashore at Murano (Regent Porto Montenegro).
Dinner ashore at Bocalibre, Murano, or One Bar. The marina-lit evening at Tivat is the cleanest concentration of crewed-yacht infrastructure on the Adriatic and the right register for the second-to-last night aboard.
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Day 7 of 7 · Tivat: Lipci, Catovica Mlini, Disembark
Last full day on the water. After breakfast the captain repositions the yacht across the inner bay to Risan for the Lipci petroglyphs — pre-Bronze-Age rock art on the cliff face above the village, identified in the 1960s and reached by tender ashore or by climbing up from the Risan waterfront. One of the small archaeological moments the bay is full of, with the right captain. A swim or a slow lunch at anchor in Risan Bay before repositioning west.
Late afternoon into Morinj at the bay's western shoulder. Dinner ashore at Restoran Konoba Catovica Mlini — the old water-mill restaurant with spring-fed pools at the foot of the dining terrace, a long-standing local favorite for farewell dinners. Tender across from anchor or stern-to at the small dock. The captain books the table mid-week.
Back to Porto Montenegro for the last night aboard. Saturday morning is disembarkation — gratuity envelope to the captain (Mediterranean standard 10 to 15 percent of base, split among the crew), a ten-minute taxi to TIV airport, US guests connecting through London, Frankfurt, or Istanbul on the way home. For an extra day pre- or post-charter, the captain knows the right night in Tivat (the Regent Porto Montenegro on the quay), in Kotor (the Hotel Cattaro inside the Old Town walls), or in Dubrovnik for guests routing back through DBV airport. The broker coordinates.
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Bookmark this voyage →Crewed Itinerary · Montenegro
This is the Adriatic week most guests book the second time they come — embark in Dubrovnik on Saturday afternoon, cross the border into Montenegro on day two, and finish in the medieval heart of the Bay of Kotor a week later. Two countries on a single charter, the Old Town walls of Dubrovnik on one end and the Sveti Stefan offshore swim day on the other. About a hundred nautical miles end to end, including the open-Adriatic crossing the morning after embarkation.
The route is yacht-type flexible. The cross-border leg on day two (Cavtat down to Herceg Novi, about twenty-five nautical miles) runs comfortably on any well-found yacht — the prevailing summer Maestral is a downwind reach most days. Crewed catamarans fifty to sixty-five feet and motor yachts twenty-four to thirty-five meters are the standard inventory on this coast; Touch Adriatic and Sail Dalmatia run both sides routinely, with captains who've done the customs run since the Portonovi quay opened. The captain handles the paperwork; guests stay aboard. The Montenegrin portion of the week pays no charter VAT; the single Croatian day pays 13% pro-rata. Saturday-to-Saturday at both ACI Marina Dubrovnik and Porto Montenegro.
This is the Adriatic week most guests book the second time they come — embark in Dubrovnik, cross the border into Montenegro on day two, finish in the medieval heart of the Bay of Kotor. Two countries on one charter, the Dubrovnik Old Town walls on one end and the Sveti Stefan offshore swim day on the other. About 100 nautical miles end to end.
For the slower week without the customs day on the front, see the Bay of Kotor Tivat Round-Trip — same Montenegrin stops, all seven days inside the country. For 10 or 14 nights chaining a Dalmatian week with this one, the canonical extended route runs Split → Hvar → Korčula → Mljet → Dubrovnik on the front half, then this itinerary's day-by-day as the back half. That's the trip captains who work both coasts route every season.
Day 1 of 7 · Embark Dubrovnik
The charter begins at ACI Marina Dubrovnik or the Gruž port, fifteen minutes by taxi from Dubrovnik (DBV) airport on Croatia's southern coast. Captain and chef meet guests on the dock, walk through the yacht, stow the luggage, and cover the chart for the week — including tomorrow's customs day at Cavtat and the open-Adriatic crossing to Herceg Novi. The marina is deep-water capable for any size yacht and the early afternoon is settle-in time. Provisioning is squared away before arrival.
Late afternoon ashore. Tender or walk to the Old Town — the walls walk is the iconic Dubrovnik ninety-minute loop, best in the cooler hour before sundown. The walls are UNESCO-inscribed since 1979 and run two kilometers around the medieval city; the route reads better counterclockwise (start at the Pile Gate). Dinner ashore at 360° Dubrovnik (one Michelin star, built into the city walls themselves) or at one of the konobas in the Old Town (Konoba Dubrava, Restaurant Orsan). The captain books either.
Back to the yacht for a quiet first night at the marina. The captain has the morning's customs paperwork in order before breakfast.
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Day 2 of 7 · Dubrovnik → Cavtat
Lines off Dubrovnik mid-morning for the short twelve-nautical-mile run south to Cavtat — Croatia's last port before the Montenegrin border. The captain has the day planned around the customs paperwork; the morning is a long lunch ashore at Bugenvila (the local Cavtat room, on the harbor) while the customs office processes the clearance-out documentation. Two hours, typical. Guests stay aboard the yacht once paperwork begins; passports are presented once at the police pier.
Cavtat itself is a quiet working town — the harbor promenade walks end-to-end in fifteen minutes, the small archaeological museum holds Roman and medieval artifacts from the surrounding peninsula, and the cafe culture is real. The Račić mausoleum on the hill above the harbor (Ivan Meštrović, 1922) is a fifteen-minute walk up and worth the climb when the schedule allows before lunch.
Mid-afternoon lines off Cavtat for the open-Adriatic crossing to Herceg Novi at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor. About twenty-five nautical miles, a downwind reach on the prevailing summer NW Maestral or a quick run under power. Pass the Prevlaka peninsula (Croatia's southernmost mainland point) astern and Cape Ostro (the bay's northern entrance) ahead. Clearing into Montenegro at D-Marin Portonovi — customs and immigration on-site at the marina, another two hours but the captain handles it while guests get settled in the new country. Berth at D-Marin Portonovi for the night.
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Day 3 of 7 · Portonovi → Luštica
Morning at D-Marin Portonovi — breakfast on the aft deck, optional Chenot Espace appointment for guests interested in the wellness facility, then lines off for the short ten-nautical-mile run east along the Luštica peninsula. The Luštica is the outer-southern arm of the Bay of Kotor — the peninsula that defines the bay's mouth on the south side and the only stretch of the cruising ground with anchorages in genuinely open Adriatic water rather than the bay's protected pool.
Anchor in Žanjic Bay, the cleanest swim anchorage on the peninsula — sand bottom at six meters, no shore development beyond a beach restaurant and a small dock. Tender around the headland to the Blue Cave (Plava Špilja) — the sea-cave that catches the internal light at mid-day, accessible by tender or by swimmer. Less crowded than Croatia's Blue Cave at Biševo, comparable visual.
Lunch on board at anchor or tender to Mamula Island for an early-afternoon walk through the fortress. Mamula reopened in 2023 as a Marriott Autograph Collection wellness hotel; the rebuild stabilized the buildings rather than erasing the WWII Yugoslav-internment history. The on-island restaurant takes lunch and dinner reservations from yacht-guests via VHF. Stay at anchor in Žanjic for the night or move back to D-Marin Portonovi for a dinner ashore at La Veranda (One&Only Portonovi).
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Day 4 of 7 · Luštica → Tivat
Lines off Luštica mid-morning for the short run east to Porto Montenegro at Tivat. The route runs through the Verige Strait — the 340-meter gateway between the outer (Tivat) and inner (Risan + Kotor) bays, and the moment the Bay of Kotor reveals its inner geography. Mt. Lovćen's wall rises seventeen-hundred meters straight out of the water on the south side; the mountain villages of Stoliv and Prčanj on the north. Defending the narrows was a national priority during the Venetian and Ottoman eras and chains were strung across the channel from each side; the modern reality is a half-hour pass under power.
Berth at Porto Montenegro for the night — the bay's superyacht hub, the first Platinum-rated marina in the world, five-time Gold Anchor Award winner. The Heritage Collection shipyard runs along the southern end of the marina, the Naval Museum at the south end (built from the Yugoslav submarine pens that occupied the site before the marina), and a row of cafes and shops between. Walk the marina end-to-end in twenty minutes.
Lunch ashore at Murano (Regent Porto Montenegro) or One Bar. Dinner ashore at Bocalibre, Murano, or back to La Veranda at Portonovi if the table works the second time. Slow afternoon at the quay — the marina is the cleanest concentration of crewed-yacht infrastructure on the Adriatic.
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Day 5 of 7 · Tivat → Perast
Lines off Porto Montenegro mid-morning for the short five-nautical-mile run north into the inner bay and around to Perast. The route passes Stoliv and Prčanj on the western shore — the mountain villages on the north side of the Verige — and opens into the inner bay's flat protected water. Anchor off Perast or stern-to at the town quay; both work.
Tender to Our Lady of the Rocks for the thirty-minute walk through the baroque church and the small museum upstairs. The islet is artificial — built over two hundred years from sunken-ship ballast accumulated by Perast's mariners — and the church is one of the cleanest baroque interiors on the eastern Adriatic. The museum's votive paintings and silver hand-beaten plates were left over centuries by sailors returning home from voyages.
Lunch on board or ashore at Conte Restaurant on the Perast waterfront — fish-of-the-day from the morning boats, a glass of Vranac (Montenegro's signature red), a slow afternoon by the mountain-wall light off the water. Walk the Perast promenade end-to-end in twenty minutes; the seventeenth-century Bujović Palace, the church of St. Nicholas with its bell tower, and the small museum of Perast's maritime history (the town once produced one of the largest captains' schools in the Adriatic) are all walkable in an hour. Dinner ashore at Conte or back aboard for a quiet anchor night.
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Day 6 of 7 · Perast → Kotor
Short four-nautical-mile run from Perast around the bay's inner head to Kotor. Optional stop on the way at the Lipci petroglyphs above Risan — pre-Bronze-Age rock art on the cliff face above the village, identified in the 1960s and reached either by yacht-tender ashore or by climbing up from the Risan waterfront. One of the bay's smaller archaeological moments and one of the few that stays genuinely private on a yacht-only approach.
Anchor or stern-to off the Old Town walls at Kotor for the late morning. The Old Town walks in an hour — the cathedral of St. Tryphon (1166), the maritime museum, the small church of St. Luke. The walls walk is the marquee — twelve-hundred meters of fortification climbing the face of Mt. Lovćen above the city, the route a steady switchback up to the Castle of St. John at the top. Allow ninety minutes round-trip; the right time is the cooler hour before sunset.
Dinner ashore at Galion (the harbor restaurant on the city waterfront, the long-standing local favorite for special occasions) or at Bocalibre Kotor inside the walls. Both are walked from the quay. Anchor in the inner bay for the night, with the walls lit up behind the boat after sundown.
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Day 7 of 7 · Kotor → Sveti Stefan → disembark
Long day, marquee finish. Lines off Kotor early for the run back out through the Verige Strait and south along the open coast to Sveti Stefan — about twenty-five nautical miles, three hours under power or a downwind sail on the prevailing summer Maestral. The route passes Tivat to port, out past Herceg Novi, and then south along the open-Adriatic coast past Budva and Bečići to the Sveti Stefan offshore anchorage.
Sveti Stefan is the Montenegro photograph and the right swim day to close the charter. Drop the platform, drop into the water, the bottom shows clean at six meters and the island sits a hundred meters off the bow. The Aman resort is closed (legal dispute with the government, ongoing since 2021), so dinner ashore at the island itself is the obvious loss; lunch on board at anchor instead, then back north for the disembark.
Twenty-nautical-mile return north to Porto Montenegro for the last night at the quay. Dinner ashore at Murano, Bocalibre, or One Bar. Disembark the following morning — gratuity envelope to the captain (Mediterranean standard is 10 to 15 percent of the base rate, split among the crew), the small ceremony of saying goodbye, and a ten-minute taxi to TIV airport. The captain can coordinate the road transfer back to DBV (about ninety minutes, depending on the customs queue) for guests who prefer to fly home from Dubrovnik.
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Bookmark this voyage →Combinándolo con Croacia
Montenegro es el destino que la mayoría de los clientes reservan la segunda vez que vienen al Adriático — pero una parte significativa lo reserva junto con Croacia al principio, en un único viaje. El itinerario estrella, la travesía de Dubrovnik a Kotor en un solo sentido, ya lo hace en siete noches: embarque en Croacia, cruce de frontera el segundo día, llegada final a Porto Montenegro. El capitán gestiona los trámites de aduana en Cavtat a la salida y en Herceg Novi a la llegada; el cálculo final es un 0% de IVA montenegrino para seis días y un 13% de IVA croata proporcional al día en aguas croatas. El viaje funciona porque la mayor parte de la flota de catamaranes que opera en Montenegro tiene base en Croacia — Touch Adriatic, Sail Dalmatia, el segmento Sunreef — y los capitanes que conocen estas costas llevan la ruta cada temporada.
Para diez o catorce noches, el viaje extendido canónico recorre Split o Dubrovnik pasando por Brač, Hvar, Korčula, Mljet, las islas Elaphiti y Dubrovnik — y luego baja al sur hacia la Bahía de Kotor y el ancladero frente a Sveti Stefan. Ese es el viaje que la mayoría de los clientes que repiten en el Adriático acaban haciendo a la tercera o cuarta vez que navegan estas aguas. La ruta funciona en ambas direcciones; el agente de yate planifica desde el principio la mañana de cruce de frontera dentro del programa, de modo que caiga como un día tranquilo en lugar de un día completo de navegación. Se cubren las paradas estelares de ambos países sin el ritmo apresurado de una travesía de una sola semana.
Para una comparativa más amplia — cuándo ir en un viaje sin barco, los pueblos y la gastronomía, la opción de viaje por carretera, los hoteles, y el análisis de costes más allá del alquiler — escribimos la versión extendida en Montenegro vs Croacia: una comparativa en profundidad. La versión resumida ya está en esta página; la versión larga está allí.
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Julio y agosto son las semanas animadas. Las marinas de Tivat y Herceg Novi llenas, el ancladero frente a Sveti Stefan con una docena de yates un sábado caluroso, lista de espera para cenar en los restaurantes junto al muelle, agua en torno a los 26 °C y aire rozando los 32 °C. Las tarifas suben entre un veinticinco y un cuarenta por ciento respecto a la temporada intermedia, y los mejores yates y tripulaciones se reservan con nueve a doce meses de antelación. Lo que la Boka no tiene es la densidad del puerto de Hvar — la flota se distribuye a lo largo de sesenta millas náuticas, así que ni en el pico de temporada ninguna bahía se convierte en una cola. Para los clientes que quieren la energía mediterránea de julio sin la presión de la costa croata, esta es la respuesta.
Junio y septiembre son los meses que los habituales del Mediterráneo eligen para venir aquí. El agua está templada pero no en su máximo. Los restaurantes de la marina tienen mesa. Las tarifas bajan entre un veinte y un treinta por ciento respecto al pico. La bahía se libera del tráfico de excursiones de día y el ancladero frente a Sveti Stefan alberga tres o cuatro yates en lugar de una docena. Finales de mayo y principios de octubre funcionan para los clientes que viajan antes o después del calendario escolar europeo — agua algo más fresca, algún sistema meteorológico bajando por el Adriático de vez en cuando, aunque el capitán lee la previsión y bordea lo que haga falta. La flota está en el agua de mayo a principios de octubre; fuera de esos meses, los barcos o se reposicionan al norte hacia Croacia para el mantenimiento o cruzan el Atlántico para la temporada del Caribe.
$25,000–$100,000 per week
Los viajes en yate con tripulación en Montenegro oscilan entre 25.000 y más de 100.000 $ por semana de tarifa base — el precio mínimo más bajo del rango mediterráneo. La flota cubre con solvencia el segmento de catamaranes de 50 a 65 pies, yates a motor de 24 a 35 m y el tramo de superyates más pequeños hasta unos 45 metros. Por encima de eso — los atraques de más de 100 metros de Tivat — la mayoría de las reservas llegan a través de los canales directos del agente de yate en lugar de la cartera de catamaranes con tripulación. Montenegro opera con el modelo mediterráneo de tarifa más gastos. La tarifa base cubre únicamente el yate y la tripulación. La comida, las bebidas, el combustible, el amarre en marina, las tasas portuarias, el agua y la electricidad, y cualquier tasa turística se pagan a través de una APA (Asignación Anticipada de Provisiones), prefundada al 25-30% de la base y liquidada al final del viaje. La propina a la tripulación es del 10 al 15% de la base, pagada directamente al capitán en el desembarque. El dato clave: el IVA al yate en aguas montenegrinas es del 0% para yates comerciales de pabellón extranjero — una excepción única en el Mediterráneo (Croacia 13%, Grecia 12%, España 21%, Italia 22%, Francia 20%). El país tampoco cobra IVA sobre el combustible. Para la semana con cruce de frontera, el IVA croata se aplica proporcionalmente a los días en aguas croatas; el capitán registra el tiempo y el agente de yate hace la liquidación. Los viajes van de sábado a sábado.
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