Zadar Archipelago Speedboat Tours & SuperYachts Croatia
Aug 01, 2026We have all seen the pictures of a yacht day on the Adriatic. Clear water in a quiet cove, a long lunch at anchor, the ride back to port with the sun going low over the horizon. It is one of the great experiences the Croatian coast has to offer, and if the chance ever comes to spend a week aboard a crewed yacht in Croatia, contact SuperYachts Croatia to do so.
SuperYachts Croatia charters a select fleet of vessels along the length of the Croatian Adriatic, and a week aboard is every bit as good as it can be imagined.
But you do not have to wait for that week to arrive. A Zadar Archipelago speedboat tour puts you in the same water, in the same coves, on the same islands, and you can book it for tomorrow morning.
The Same Sea, at a Different Scale
A SuperYachts Croatia vacation shows you the Adriatic slowly. Seven nights, and a crew who knows your name and how you take your coffee. The itinerary can change on a whim, because somebody at breakfast liked the look of a bay in the distance. That is the long version, and it is wonderful. A speedboat gives you a short version of the same thing in a single day.
Our speedboats are compact, quick, shallow enough to slide into an inlet and hold there while you swim off the back. Twelve guests at most. You leave the Zadar waterfront, and fifteen minutes later the city is on the horizon behind you. Twenty minutes, and you are swimming in a bay that the slower day boats will not reach for hours.
The Best Day We Run: Silba, Olib, and Molat
Ask any of our skippers which trip they would take on their own day off and you will hear the same three names.
Leave from Marina Tankerkomerc (the same marina that works with SuperYachts Croatia and takes on yachts for berths and maintenance) at 10 AM and cover roughly eighty nautical miles through an archipelago of more than 40 islands, with five stops before you are home. Olib comes first, a shallow sandy bay where the water turns white and turquoise and the seabed is soft underfoot.
Then Silba, the island with no cars. You swim in the lagoon at Sotorišće bay in three and a half metres of clear water, learn picigin and walk up through the village in the afternoon to hear the love story behind the Toreta Tower and climb it for the view across the whole northern archipelago.
Molat and its sandy lagoon come late in the day, and the ride home runs along the Zadar waterfront past the Sea Organ with the light going.
Three islands, five stops, and near-complete privacy. This is the quieter half of the archipelago, the part the crowds have not worked out yet.
What a Day Aboard Feels Like
Our speedboats are quick and comfortable, with snorkelling gear aboard, and local skippers. This means they know which cove empties out by four in the afternoon or which island tavern is worth the stop.
Fast crossings and long stops are a staple of our tours, and guests can expect lots of swimming in bays no road reaches, lunch somewhere small and unhurried, and be back in Zadar in time to watch the sun go down from shore.
June and September are the best time for this experience. Warm sea, settled weather, far fewer boats in the water than in July and August.
The Rest of the Archipelago
Dugi Otok island is narrow along the outer edge, sheltering everything behind it from the open sea. On its far side lies Sakarun, a wide beach with pale sand and shallow turquoise sea that gets compared to the Caribbean more often than anywhere else in Croatia.
Closer to the mainland, Ugljan and Pašman offer a gentler afternoon. Olive groves, old monasteries, small harbours where lunch is whatever came up in the nets that morning. Each of these is a trip in its own right, because none of them rewards being rushed.
Telašćica Nature Park sits at the southern end of the same island, cliffs dropping sheer into deep blue on the seaward side and a warm salt lake resting quietly just behind the ridge. Beyond it lie the Kornati, more than a hundred bare stone islands scattered toward the horizon with almost nothing green holding on.
You can visit all these locations by yacht, but not in a single day.
When a Yacht Charter is Better than a Speedboat
During the hot Croatian summer, a day is rarely enough to explore and experience everything the coastline has to offer. Dinner on deck under the mast light. Waking up wherever the vessel anchored the night before. Sailing south past Hvar and Korčula because somebody suggested it over coffee and there was nothing in the way.
That is what SuperYachts Croatia does. Crewed yachts across the Croatian Adriatic, a captain who has read these channels across many seasons, a chef aboard, and an itinerary that belongs entirely to you. Plenty of guests meet this coast from a speedboat first and end up on a yacht eventually.
Book Your Zadar Archipelago Speed Boat Tour
Zadar Archipelago speedboat tours have worked these waters since 2015, and more than 15.000 guests have come aboard since. Parallel to this, SuperYachts Croatia takes guests to the outer edges of the Zadar archipelago, and beyond. Together, they offer a complete experience.
Book your Zadar Archipelago speedboat tour this season and be ready to explore stunning locations that rarely get visitors (except if they arrive by yacht).
