Corfu or Croatia?

[wonkywinch]

The fuel station is in the river. It’s a linear arrangement with two pumps, you have to queue to get your slot; the queue at end -of-charter-week times can be 20 - 30 boats or more, takes hours, holding station in a narrow shallow river among dozens of others, of varying abilities. Once you’ve refuelled you have to execute a very tight turn to port to avoid going aground, then make your way back down the queue of boats, pushing through them to get into the marina. If you have a motorboat ahead of you that wants say 2000 litres they can be on the pump for a hour. Pretty stressful end to your week. If you can fill up the night before somewhere else that’s recommended.

Isn't there some funny payment method as well? I remember some faffing around before they activate the pump further wasting time.

Same experience with a 3 hour queue. The wind was blowing strongly down the river and I heard dozens of bow thrusters being used to keep bows into wind. I turned our boat around and she sat nicely stern to wind, just a nudge of reverse to counter the wind and move up the queue.

By the time we got to the pumps, I noticed only about a third of other boats had cottoned on to my boat handling demo

As for Croatia, I felt the locals had hiked prices at all the waterside places and much better value can be found in Greece.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Yes that's right, you can't fill without authorising a payment card. What a faff!

 

[Sailing steve]

As for Croatia, I felt the locals had hiked prices at all the waterside places and much better value can be found in Greece.

That was our impression with Croatia too. Significant inflation and a noticeable variation in the £/Kuna exchange rate made quite a difference to how much we'd end up spending on holiday there during the period we went fairly regularly .

Their official currency is the Euro now and I'll bet a pint to a pinch of pig poo that the currency changeover was just the excuse anybody needed to hike prices even further.

 

[wonkywinch]

Our two week Croatia route in 2021 if anyone interested ..

 

[Skellum]

The fuel station is in the river. It’s a linear arrangement with two pumps, you have to queue to get your slot; the queue at end -of-charter-week times can be 20 - 30 boats or more, takes hours, holding station in a narrow shallow river among dozens of others, of varying abilities. Once you’ve refuelled you have to execute a very tight turn to port to avoid going aground, then make your way back down the queue of boats, pushing through them to get into the marina. If you have a motorboat ahead of you that wants say 2000 litres they can be on the pump for a hour. Pretty stressful end to your week. If you can fill up the night before somewhere else that’s recommended.

Thanks - yes I normally try and refill on the Thursday.