In the last days of summer, we got a visit from Marino and Biserka Ivančić, the first owners of the Sandokan leut. They brought photos of his launch back in 1978. With lot of memories they talk about the agreement on the construction of the ship, the ideas they thought of when arranging the buy and the master who built it. The ship had a reputation. When they sailed with her on the Adriatic, everyone looked and admired her, they say. Sandokan, a leut 8.53 m long and 2.90 m in width, was made by the late Šime Jušić, a shipbuilder from Betina. They say they wanted a traditional leut as they saw it in Betina and Murter, but modernized and slightly different. Šime was…
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Launch of the Leut “Kvarneriol”
Saturday, 12th of September In the shipyard Marin owned by the shipbuilder Ante Fržop, a boat type leut named Kvarneriol, 8 meters long and 3 meters wide, was launched. She has a 12-meter-long lantina (yard) and a 57 HP engine, registered for the transport of 12 people, equipped with a 150l oil tank and a 150l water tank, a toilet with a sink and a cooking area. Kvarneriol is made for several days of sailing and a longer stay at sea. The design is like one of our traditional boats – turned into a yacht, but still traditional because she can be paddled on two oars if there’s a need to. One oar on the bow, another oar on the stern. And you can also…
Betina Film Festival 2020.
The opening of this year’s Betina Film Festival is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept 1, and it goes until Saturday, Sept 5. Visitors will be able to watch short films at as many as four locations in 12 projection blocks all around Betina! Betina Film Festival (BAFF) is a five-day film festival of Croatian and International film being held for the third time in Betina. The festival is focused on promoting Croatian cinematography, presentation of International selection of short films, education and film art research. The competition program, divided into international and domestic category, shows original, diverse and quality films by Croatian, foreign and, since 2019, Croatian young authors. The festival consists of BAFF Domaćica and BAFF International – live screenings and short film competitions of…
The 5th birthday of Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding
Dear friends, we are pleased to invite you to join us in the 5th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding. The program will be held on Friday, August 14 at 8 pm at the main square in Betina. Come and enjoy a relaxing atmosphere with some good music, sails light show of our open-air museum and the taste of our birthday cake. We are looking forward to your arrival! The event will be realized in cooperation with the Municipality of Tisno.
Programme of events for August
Find something for yourself in our programme and visit us this August!
Evening of Traditional Crafts and Skills
The Evening of Traditional Crafts and Skills, which we organize together with KUD ZORA Betina and many of our volunteers, took place in a somewhat more modest edition due to the current epidemiological situation, but no less interesting than in previous years. This year, we put the emphasis on the household skills – we washed clothes in a hot water and demonstrated washing clothes using the traditional wooden washboard – many of our visitors showed great skill in this discipline! Thanx to our Martina Sladić who organized the move of the traditional kitchen armoir which greatly contributed to the authentic presentation of the traditional get together at the table. The Evening of Old Crafts was also participated by Esma Šandrić with her playful collection of…
Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding reopens for visitors
The Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding wishes to inform all our friends and followers that we are reopening to our regular working hours as of Monday, April 27 th! Individual visits will be allowed to view the exhibition adhering to epidemiological measures, with protective masks and gloves. Under current measures, the maximum number of group visitors will be limited to 10, also with strict adherence to hygiene and physical distance measures. Thank you all for your cooperation!