Trogir’s old town sits on its own little island, connected to the mainland by a bridge and to the neighbouring island of Čiovo by another. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and you can walk the whole thing in fifteen minutes — then sail away from it in the same afternoon.

The Pakleni islands sit just off Hvar and are a maze of pine-covered coves where the water turns from turquoise to deep green in a single boat length. There are no roads, no hotels, no crowds — just anchorages, a few konobas and the sound of your own boat settling on the chain.

The word “marina” comes from the Latin for mooring, but Dalmatian sailors will tell you the real secret is the maestral — the afternoon breeze that arrives almost like clockwork, gives you four hours of perfect sailing, then dies at sunset. Plan your hops around it and you look like a genius.

A solar yacht does not heel, does not roar and does not rush. Your morning coffee stays in the cup, the cabins stay cool through the afternoon, and your skipper gets to look like the calmest person on the Adriatic. That is what a week at anchor is supposed to feel like.

The Dalmatian islands get around 2,700 hours of sunshine a year — more than most of the Mediterranean. That is a lot of free energy falling on your solar panels every single day of the week, which is exactly why the fridge stays cold and the cabins stay cool without a generator.