How to replace your car with a speedboat and forget roads ever existed
Apr 09, 2025Travelling from the mainland to the seaside one would assume that the sea represents some kind of a barrier in its mystery and vastness (even for speedboats) but it is a shortcut and an opportunity for you and your loved ones to experience what it truly means to be free.
Swap your car for our speedboats
Zadar boat tours will offer you an alternative you can’t refuse; gliding across the Adriatic, wind in your hair, salt on your lips, a white trail behind you like a signature. For guests on a speedboat, the Zadar archipelago unfolds– a constellation of over 300 islands, islets and reefs, each with its own personality, each close enough to touch, but only if you move like the sea itself: fast, fluid, free.
This is where the speedboat comes in – a vehicle that is actually a state of mind.
When you rent a speedboat around Zadar, you’re renting much more than a horsepower and this unlocks an entire geography that refuses to sit still. One moment you’re sipping espresso in Preko on Ugljan, the next you’re swimming off the silver-pebble shores of Sestrunj. No schedules, no crowds, no timetables taped to harbor walls. Just you, the sea, and a direction.
The islands don’t rush but you can, all with the swiftness of the speedboat that cuts through the sea like a knife through butter.
The best way to move around the Zadar archipelago
Zadar’s archipelago is a paradox: wildly scattered and yet tightly knit. What takes hours by ferry can take minutes by boat. Want to dive into a hidden cove on Molat before lunch in Božava? Done. Feel like starting your morning on Iž and ending it with a sunset swim off Silba’s shores? Zadar boat tours will take you from point A to B without any traffic lights, traffic jams, road rage and bad air conditioning.
By taking a speedboat you become truly untethered and you can ride away into the sunset like a movie character. What appears to be a simple commute transforms into skimming the skin of the Adriatic with the indifference of someone who no longer believes in maps.
A car will never give you the freedom of a speedboat because cars demand rules, signs, tolls, insurance policies and little red stickers on the windshield that means you’ve passed the inspection. A speedboat wants only you to know where the sun sets and who to wave to when passing a fisherman’s skiff that’s older than you’ll ever be.
Our speedboats will take you from Zadar to Sakarun Beach, from Molat to Ugljan, from Dugi Otok to Silba in less time than it takes your car to crawl out of a ferry dock and argue with Google Maps.
Experience the limitless possibilities
A boat lets you stop at a beach that doesn’t have a name. A cove that doesn’t have a story until you arrive. A place where the only sign of civilization is a frayed rope tied to a bleached rock and a folding chair left by someone who no longer needs it.
Replacing your car with a speedboat does not mean giving up your safety or the comfort of your car. The sea offers no guarantees. It offers the possibilty of arriving somewhere else entirely. Somewhere unplanned, unrepeatable, undrivable. And when you return, if you return, you’ll know you haven’t wasted a thing.
And if, in a moment of salt-lick silence, face turned toward the wind, you miss the hum of a car’s air-conditioning or the comforting logic of lanes and brake lights – just remember: the best conversations, the real silences, the deepest exhales, never happened behind a steering wheel.
The island is not conquered by car; the island is approached by boat. And with an boat– you never really know. You might leave to buy bread and end up at a wedding in a port you didn’t know existed.
Zadar’s archipelago is a paradox: wildly scattered and yet tightly knit. What takes hours by ferry can take minutes by boat. Want to dive into a hidden cove on Molat before lunch in Božava? Done. Feel like starting your morning on Iž and ending it with a sunset swim off Silba’s shores? Just say the word.
Some spots, like Saharun Beach on Dugi Otok or the cliffs of Telašćica, are famous and rightfully so. And when the sunlight starts to shift and the sea turns to molten glass, you’ll understand why locals say the day ends best on the water. From a boat, the sun doesn’t just set – it sinks into the sea like a secret.
Speed, but not just for the sake of it
Speedboats are more than roaring engines and a chance to show off, they are about reclaiming time. It’s about knowing that freedom sometimes sounds like the low purr of an outboard motor and feels like a sudden jump across a wave. It’s about being able to say yes – yes to another island, yes to another swim, yes to another round at that konoba you just stumbled upon and never planned to find.
For couples, it’s romance with no fences. For friends, it’s an inside joke that starts on one island and finishes three stops later. For solo travelers, it’s the joy of being unreachable in the most beautiful way.
So if you’re coming to Zadar this season, ask yourself one thing: do you want to visit the islands or do you want to own them – even if just for a day?
Speedboats allow you to move in a disappearing way, and sometimes that is exactly what you need. For inspirational holiday stories and locations that can spark your imagination, check out our Instagram or book directly with us here.
