June 18, 2026•5 min read•By Maurits Dierick, Charter Broker & Former Yacht Captain
Zadar & Kornati Yacht Charter Itinerary: 7-Day Route (2026)
Seven days from Zadar into the Kornati: 89 uninhabited islands, the cliffs of Dugi Otok and the salt lake at Telascica.
You eat on board five of the seven nights on this route.
That isn't an oversight in the planning. Days 1 to 4 run through Ist, Veli Iž, Žut and Piškera, and there is essentially nothing ashore at any of them. The Kornati archipelago is 89 islands of bare limestone with no restaurants, no villages and, on most of them, nobody at all.
Restaurants appear on days 5 and 6, at Murter and Primošten, once you're back near the mainland.
If that sounds like a thin week, it's the wrong way round. This is the route people take when they've done the busy Adriatic and want the opposite of it: bare islands, empty anchorages, dark skies.
147 nautical miles, 13.5 hours under way, and no leg over 30 miles.
Before we dive in, it's worth noting the route below is also available as an interactive map on our Croatia charter page.
The route
Zadar → Ist → Veli Iž → Žut → Piškera (Kornati) → Murter → Primošten → Zadar.
Seven days, 147 nautical miles, 13.5 hours under way. Round trip from Zadar.
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Day 1: Ist
Noon embarkation in Zadar, then northwest through channels full of small islands.
Ist is car-free with about two hundred residents. One village round a sheltered bay, stone houses built from limestone quarried on the island. Behind it, olives and vines climb to Straža, 174 metres, and from the top you can see Dugi Otok to the south and, on a clear day, the Italian mountains.
Lunch and dinner on board.
Passage: 2 hours, 22 nm. Mooring: Ist Harbour, Kosirača Bay, Uvala Mavrela or Široka uvala. Beach: Uvala Mavrela. Dining: on board.
Day 2: Veli Iž
Two hours south past Dugi Otok, where the Veli Rat lighthouse has stood since 1849.
Veli Iž is a narrow island, twelve kilometres long and a kilometre wide, with about four hundred people on it. A ridge divides the two coasts, so one side is always sheltered. There are Roman fort ruins on the high point and 14th-century frescoes in the parish church.
Lunch and dinner on board.
Passage: 2 hours, 22 nm. Mooring: Veli Iž Harbour, Privezište dock or Knež. Beach: Pečeno Bay. Dining: on board.
Day 3: Žut
Ninety minutes. Žut is uninhabited. There are old stone huts from seasonal occupation and terraces that have gone back to scrub, and that's it.
Pod Ražanj cuts into the west shore, and ACI keeps a small marina there. Around the island there are a dozen bays, each one empty.
At night there's no light pollution.
Lunch and dinner on board.
Passage: 1.5 hours, 14 nm. Mooring: ACI Marina Žut, Bizikovica Bay or Žut Bay. Beach: Bizikovica. Dining: on board.
Day 4: Piškera, Kornati National Park
Ninety minutes into the park.
The Kornati are 89 islands and islets of bare limestone. The southwestern faces drop vertically into ninety metres of water within a boat length of the shore, which is what the diving and snorkelling here is about.
Piškera has an ACI marina in the middle of it. Lojena is one of the few sand beaches in the whole archipelago. Tureta fortress is on the high ground, a 6th-century watchtower.
Lunch and dinner on board.
Passage: 1.5 hours, 16 nm. Mooring: ACI Marina Piškera, Lojena Bay, Otok Zakan or Otok Svrsata Vela. Beach: Lojena. Dining: on board.
Day 5: Murter
Two hours. Murter is joined to the mainland by a bridge but it doesn't behave like it. Murter families traditionally owned most of the Kornati and held hereditary title to individual islands, grazing sheep and harvesting olives there until the national park was designated.
Kosirina is the bay on the southern shore, white pebble and clear water.
Dinner at BOBA, and the first restaurant of the week.
Passage: 2 hours, 18 nm. Mooring: ACI Marina Hramina, Murter town harbour or Kosirina Bay. Beach: Kosirina. Dining: BOBA Restaurant.
Day 6: Primošten
Two hours down the coast. Primošten was an island until Ottoman pressure prompted a fortified causeway, and the old town is packed onto the promontory with a baroque church on top.
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The vineyards behind it climb stone-walled terraces on slopes that shouldn't support agriculture at all. UNESCO recognised the landscape pattern as intangible cultural heritage. The grape is Babić.
Raduča is the beach south of town.
Dinner at Konoba Dvor.
Passage: 2 hours, 25 nm. Mooring: Primošten town harbour, Kremik Marina or Raduča Beach. Beach: Raduča. Dining: Konoba Dvor.
Day 7: Zadar
Two and a half hours north. Zadar is where Augustus founded a settlement, where medieval Croatian kings were crowned, and where Venetian architects worked in Istrian stone.
Breakfast on board on the way in.
Passage: 2.5 hours, 30 nm. Mooring: Zadar Marina or Tankerkomerc Marina. Dining: breakfast on board.
Who this suits
People who want the boat to be the week. Five nights on board means the chef matters more here than on any other Croatian route, and it's worth saying that out loud at the enquiry stage, not discovering it on day three.
It suits divers and snorkellers, because the Kornati underwater cliffs are the reason the park exists. It suits anyone who wants dark skies and empty bays.
It doesn't suit a group who want to go ashore and eat somewhere different every night.
Practical notes
Round trip from Zadar, so one airport.
Kornati National Park charges entry fees, which your broker will confirm for your dates and boat size.
