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The port of Nerezine itself is a bit further to the
north. The entrance is between the pier that protects
the harbour from the southeastern side and the
shorter quay on the northwest side. At the head of
the pier there is a red lighthouse. It is best to tie up at
the inner side of the pier where the depth is about
three and half metres at the head, two at the foot.
From the foot of the pier to the easily visible crane it
is too shallow. Inside the port there are two little
jetties on piles. There is adequate depth at both of
them, from two to three metres. Where the jetties
adjoin the land there are hookups for water and
electricity. The western side of the harbour is
shallow. And in Nerezine, as if one needed to say,
there are some good restaurants.
If we stop in Nerezine, it is a good opportunity to
climb lofty Osor ica. You need have no fear that
the locals will think you are odd (whoever heard
of sailors climbing?), for every July 27 they
celebrate the feast of St Anne by climbing to the
top of Osor ica, actually, to take mass in the
Chapel of St Nicholas. Sober minded skippers
will take the opportunity to scout out the whole of
the Gulf of Kvarner from this height. As well as
the chart and other devices that we use, it is good
occasionally to take a real look at the waters we
are sailing in.
Now, after Nerezine, nothing is keeping us from
sailing into the Osor Canal. Of course, there are
many more famous ones in the world, like the
Panama, the Kiel… but the Osor Canal is older
than them, much, much older.
Around Lopar Point start the signs warning us
how to sail through the canal. For as the chart
will also tell us, the whole of the channel is
extremely shallow. The five red marks in the
shape of cylinders fixed to a concrete plinth have
to be sailed round from the east. You have to
know that a safe course is not right by the marks,
rather some fifteen metres from them. Of course,
in such straits we obey the same customs as on the
roads. Keep to the right. At sea these rules go even
for the English.
Osor. If we started the whole of this journey in
fashionable Opatija, which shows through its
appearance that it was born somewhere at the end
of the nineteenth century, then it is quite fitting to
close this nautical guide with Osor, several
millennia old.
The story of Osor begins with the words that open
every story. Once upon a time, when the islands of
Cres and Lošinj were once an island, the
Apsyrtidean island. It is said that the Liburnians
sailed the seas then, brave warriors and seasoned
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Osor