Primosten was a beautiful little town, similar to Rovinj (built out on a peninsula), but unfortunately will be remembered by us for the anchoring debacle. Friends David and Diane from s/v Stray Cat had left early in the morning and motored to the town, thus securing a mooring. We waited for the wind to come up (which it eventually does, just not till late morning or early afternoon), and by the time we arrived the moorings had all been taken. We headed over to the anchorage, dropped the hook, and then checked on things (the anchorage did not have a good rating on our sailing apps, the ground being thin sand over rock).
We took the easy route first and pulled out the bathyscope, which acts as a magnifying glass from the surface of the water. From the dinghy, we could see that things did not look good.
Trip suited up and managed to unwrap the anchor chain from the concrete chunk it was hooked around (no wonder we thought we had dug in well). In the meantime, we watched other boats trying 5 or 6 times to anchor themselves on this awful substrate. We were finally satisfied (not thrilled), that we’d be fine as the winds were going to be light through the night and not test the anchor.
Town was small but charming. We wandered around with David and Diane, had a posh gin and tonic at the one of the fancy sea-side bars, and then had a lovely dinner also waterside.
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