"Galeb" is the only boat of this design still sailing the Adriatic. It has participated in many regattas, and took the Mlakar family on cruises round the Adriatic for more than fifty years. When the winds were good, this elegant ten-metre boat, much appreciated by the racers of the time, could reach 14 knots.
As the head of the dockyard in Trogir, Ante Katalinic wrote, the ribs, the keel and the sternpost were made of oak wood, the plates of the Slovene pine, and the deck of larch. The inside was made of teak. The plates were fastened to the ribs with copper rivets, while all other rivets were of galvanised iron.
Although perfectly seaworthy, the boat was too low for a four-member family, so in 1958 master Bonifacic from Zurkovo near Rijeka, Croatia, renewed and heightened it by about 10 centimetres.
In May 1994 the Mlakars gave "Galeb" to the Sergej Masera Maritime Museum. We are now renewing this precious boat with our own resources and with the help of foreign sponsors.
