Since the beginning of May, the port in the town of Supetar has been decorated by a 104 year old cargo sailing boat which speaks of the centuries old nautical tradition of the island of Brač. This is the boat `Roditelj`, the oldest authentic boat built on the Adriatic, which is also a protected cultural good of Croatia. The boat was built in 1907, in the harbour Piran, in Slovenia. It was built without machinery, as handwork of the old caulk craftsmen. It was first intended to carry cargo and it was mostly used for stone transport. It had an especially important role in the Second World War when it participated in the transport of refugees to El Shalt. In the middle of the last century it was motorized and it became a motor sailing boat which was used mostly for tourist trips. Many consider it to be a characteristic coastal sailing boat, which you could come across along the whole Dalmatian and Istrian coast, all the way to the bay of Venice. The role of this boat will now be in rep...
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