RichardS
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A special mention in dispatches for the first to guess what the purpose of this old green bottle in a bay on the island of Hvar might be?
Richard
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Where Is It? - Croatia: What Is It? - A green bottle ..... but what is it for?
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capnsensible
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Are there another nine hanging on a nearby wall?
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Deleted User YDKXO
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My mate and his SWMBO were on holiday in Hvar last week. She drinks likes she owns a vineyard. I'm betting its one of hers
NOHOH
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Hvar Got News For You......
It marks the position where you dropped your wallet containing all your bank cards and Croatian cash, and without which you cannot hire a diver to recover it.
It marks the position where you dropped your wallet containing all your bank cards and Croatian cash, and without which you cannot hire a diver to recover it.
Davy_S
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There is a message inside it, when you open it it says, who's a nosey git then.
RichardS
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Some unusual guesses .... most of which are more likely than the actual reason for the green bottle on a bit of string, which is:
Yes, it's the mooring buoy for boats up to 50 feet!
The full story in that we sailed into this bay called Pribinja on the NW corner of Hvar to be greeted by a half dozen mooring buoys on the east side of the bay and a half dozen plastic bottles marking fishing or lobster nets, the usual Croatian style, on the west side of the bay. I motored past the fishing markers saying to SWMBO that is a stupid place to put fishing nets because charterers manouvering for the buoys, particularly when the light is fading or when the wind picks up, will end up with fishing tackle around their props.
Anyway, we picked up a proper mooring buoy and sat back in the sun with a beer ..... and in came another boat .... and this one went straight over to the green bottle and started to pull it up with a boat hook. I said to my wife that this was going to be fun when they pulled up a live lobster or something .... but they pulled up a sturdy 1 inch mooring line with an eye in it and just popped the eye over their cleat.
I then watched as other boats came in. Some ignored the fishing floats and went for the proper orange buoys with an eye on the top and others went for a green bottle and pulled it up without hesitation. By 6:00pm all the buoys were taken.
There are two restaurants in the bay so when the owner of Konoba Arsenol toddled over in his boat, we told him that we would eat in his restaurant so there was no charge for the buoy. I then asked him why he was using proper mooring buoys like every other bay we've ever been in, but his rival seeming content with an old 7-Up bottle.
He relied that his rival was Ringo's Restaurant and that everyone in Croatia knew Ringo's and that they were his bottles and that he would be full by reservation every single night of the summer and so it didn't matter what he had floating in the bay as he was really trying to discourage people.
Sure enough, Arsenol, which had excellent food at a good price considering that the mooring would be about £20, was about 1/3 full whereas Ringo's was bursting at the seams. :ambivalence:
Sometimes truth is wilder than fiction.
Richard
Yes, it's the mooring buoy for boats up to 50 feet!
The full story in that we sailed into this bay called Pribinja on the NW corner of Hvar to be greeted by a half dozen mooring buoys on the east side of the bay and a half dozen plastic bottles marking fishing or lobster nets, the usual Croatian style, on the west side of the bay. I motored past the fishing markers saying to SWMBO that is a stupid place to put fishing nets because charterers manouvering for the buoys, particularly when the light is fading or when the wind picks up, will end up with fishing tackle around their props.
Anyway, we picked up a proper mooring buoy and sat back in the sun with a beer ..... and in came another boat .... and this one went straight over to the green bottle and started to pull it up with a boat hook. I said to my wife that this was going to be fun when they pulled up a live lobster or something .... but they pulled up a sturdy 1 inch mooring line with an eye in it and just popped the eye over their cleat.
I then watched as other boats came in. Some ignored the fishing floats and went for the proper orange buoys with an eye on the top and others went for a green bottle and pulled it up without hesitation. By 6:00pm all the buoys were taken.
There are two restaurants in the bay so when the owner of Konoba Arsenol toddled over in his boat, we told him that we would eat in his restaurant so there was no charge for the buoy. I then asked him why he was using proper mooring buoys like every other bay we've ever been in, but his rival seeming content with an old 7-Up bottle.
He relied that his rival was Ringo's Restaurant and that everyone in Croatia knew Ringo's and that they were his bottles and that he would be full by reservation every single night of the summer and so it didn't matter what he had floating in the bay as he was really trying to discourage people.
Sure enough, Arsenol, which had excellent food at a good price considering that the mooring would be about £20, was about 1/3 full whereas Ringo's was bursting at the seams. :ambivalence:
Sometimes truth is wilder than fiction.
Richard
RupertW
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I love it. That is Croatian practical logic at work. One place encourages people as they are half empty and the other makes it unlikely that anybody but regulars will more up to their busy one. I’m Greece it would be the other way round as the half empty one would be cutting costs by having scrappier floats.
Resolution
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I'm pretty impressed that the Queen Mary can be chartered in Croatia
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Davy_S
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I'm pretty impressed that the Queen Mary can be chartered in Croatia
Its the benefits version.
