There are more and more girls working on ships in Boka. One of them, Jana Radan from Novlja, has been earning pocket money for several years by working in the summer on sailboats, catamarans and motor yachts as a sailor.
"It's interesting, especially when you love what you do, and you always learn something new," Jana points out.
He does not see the difference, when it comes to skills and knowledge, between women and men sailors. That's why, she emphasizes, there are more and more women today for whom sailing is a hobby as well as a job.
"It used to not be like that. Sailors have long believed that a woman's presence on a ship angers the sea gods, who therefore send terrible storms to the "doomed" vessel. Thus, for a long time, women were officially forbidden to sail on commercial and military ships in many countries of the world," Jana points out.
The XNUMX-year-old girl says that she feels like she is at sea and on a sailboat and that she has been guided by the wind since she was born. Her uncle had a sailboat, ran a sailing school, so it was natural that all the children in the family spent a large part of their time, especially in the summer, at sea and learned sailing skills.
Even as a girl, she participated in regattas on Boka, and later on the Adriatic. One of the most difficult, but also the most challenging and her favorite is the "Thousand Islands" regatta, which is sailed in two stages. The first one starts in Rijeka, and the cruiser fleet passes more than 1.000 Adriatic islands, with the sailboats passing by the islands of Unije, Susak, Premud, Dugi otok, Kornati, Vis, Lastovo and Sveti Andrije, in order to reach the destination in Tivat. Along the route of 277 nautical miles, the fleet faces the technical challenges of navigating between the islands and channels of the Croatian coast and the Bay of Kotorska. The second is from Tivat to Rijeka.
Two years ago, she participated as the skipper of the Montenegrin team in the international women's regatta called the Historic Mediterranean Gathering of Women, which was held in Vala on the Croatian island of Vis. It was one of the most stressful regattas for her, because the weather conditions were bad, and the team members did not know each other well and did not train together.
But for Jana, sailing is, first of all, love and pleasure, and that is why she agrees with the world-famous sailor Jožo Horvat, who says that "of all drugs, the sea is the most intoxicating."
Jane Radan's documentary film "U po bande", after Tivat, should soon be seen by the audience in Herceg Novi.
She would like to be involved in some kind of video, because "the Internet offers enormous opportunities." And sailing is a challenge with countless possibilities, so she is not yet sure what her calling in life will be.
"I would like to harmonize and fit both my loves, so that I don't have to choose," says Jana.
Documentary "U po ganga"
With such love, but also knowledge of the world of sailors, it was to be expected that it would also be the subject of Jana's first documentary "U po bande", which is sailing jargon for wind ideal for sailing.
Jana made the film as an exam assignment at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, digital arts - film major.
"I took a camera, filmed children's regattas, talked to their coaches, but the most important thing for me was to "capture" with the camera and transfer on film the atmosphere that reigns among the people and children who spend the whole day preparing for sailing and their enthusiasm. That's how a fifteen-minute collage of everyday situations was created," explains Jana.
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