Northern Adriatic: Strong katabatic winds

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Northern Adriatic: how the place works

The bora drops cold over the coastal mountains and in gusts easily reaches twice the reported wind. It does not build gradually, it snaps on, and it is highly local: between the islands calm and raging patches lie side by side. The main season is October to March; in summer it comes short and hard.

Northern Adriatic: what breaks there

Boats at anchor and in bays are almost always the ones affected. The anchor breaks out, the boat goes sideways, and the damage happens on the shore or on the neighbour. Add sprayhood and cover, which go first, and fittings that tear out of the deck.

Northern Adriatic: what this means for your policy

What decides here is whether the ground tackle suited the forecast and whether anyone was aboard. Both end up in the file. In exposed anchorages some conditions require an anchor watch explicitly, and a bay that is open in a bora is not a safe berth in the sense of the policy.

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