We were coming to the end of our time in Italy and knew we would be crossing the Ionian Sea to Croatia soon; it all depended on the weather. Every day Bob checks the weather usually a couple times per day after it is updated. We had two options - either leave Trani and head further north on the Italian coast to Vieste and use that as a jumping off point OR go directly from Trani depending on the weather. Depending on which we chose it would be either a 14 or 18 hour crossing. We always want to enter a new port during daylight so our departure time would also be dependent on which plan we went with. When leaving Italy there are some official things that need to be done- one is to have
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