Cavtat - Clearing Customs

Today we are leaving Croatia and heading to Montenegro.

The best place to carry out exit formalities is a town further down the coast called Cavtat.

We arrived in Cavtat and decided to anchor to stock up on provisions before clearing customs.

After which we proceeded over to the customs dock. There were quite a few boats waiting, and they started to raft up to each other. There was a space available between the rafter's and the next boat which was moored stern-to. So we decided to drop anchor and back into the space. There was a guy there ready to help, so we threw him the stern lines. I pulled up the anchor a little and we were sitting nicely. Well done crew!

Clearing customs took forever! I was directed to see the port police, who then instructed me to see the harbormaster. There was a captain in the harbormasters office whose documents were not in order so I had to wait until they had sorted him out. I then went back to the customs office (port police) who then noticed that we had 3 people on our crew list, but 4 people were leaving. Kary had just joined the boat. So he then sent me back to the harbormaster, who was out to lunch! I got Kary added to the crew list and went back to the customs office.

They then cleared us to leave... Whew!