"Kli-kli" will be a movable cultural asset of the three countries

It is a great pleasure that the story about the sailing ship "Kli-Kli" entered the Maritime Museum, because it complements the story about "Besa" that we already have here and brings to our seafaring of the 20th century an adventurous spirit of navigation, exploration of distant coasts and freedom that only she can to provide. - said the curator of the Crbna Gora Maritime Museum in Kotor, Ilija Mlinarević, opening a lecture on the thirty-one-year journey of the sailboat "Kli-Kli" on Friday evening in Kotor.

The 12-meter-long two-mast ketch "Kli-Kli", one of the three most famous ships of the so-called Yugoslav recreational boating. Along with Joža Horvat's "Besa" and Mladen Šutej's "HIR 3" and "Kli-Kli" is a rare ex-YU cruiser cruiser that can boast of having sailed around the world. With this ship, the Kojadinović family from Belgrade cruised the world's seas for more than three decades and with it almost described a full circle of circumnavigation around the globe.

From their travels, the Kojadinovićs wrote extremely popular and well-read reportages that were then regularly published in "Illustrovana Politika" or their film camera footage was shown in shows called "Out of the Ocean" on TV Belgrade.

The public in the SFRY followed with pleasure and interest the adventures of this unusual family and their voyages in the seas and oceans of the world, which is why "Kli-Kli" still has an almost cult status among many, especially somewhat older residents of all ex-YU republics.

As a testimony of this unusual multi-decade adventure on the seas of the world, three books have been written for Kojadinovičma; "Solar sail, "Seven years for three oceans" and "Kli-Kli - same masts, two generations". The famous sailboat has been in Boka for a long time, and two years ago it was bought by lovers of nautical and sailing, Isidor Stankov and Milana Štribohar from Herceg Novi, who are restoring the legendary ship.

They intend to protect and present "Kli-kli" as a movable international cultural asset inherited by France, under whose flag sailed the family of economic emigrants from Yugoslavia, Kojadinović, who, before going to the ocean, lived and worked in Paris, Serbia from which the Kojadinovićs are from, and Montenegro, where the weary world traveler "Kli-kli" settled down and whose flag is now flying on the stern. "Our intention is to continue the story of "Kli-Kli" and get an institutional framework. I am convinced that this duty belongs precisely to the Maritime Museum, and this lecture is only the beginning of that project. Soon, I hope, we will have the opportunity to organize a special exhibition about the maritime heritage of the "Kli - Klija" and the Kojadinović family, and I hope that the ideas of the current owners of the ship, Isidor and Milanka, will be realized," said Mlinarević, adding that Boki and Montenegro "should be honored that this world traveler bowed after more than three decades of wandering the seas and oceans, settled in our region and gave us the opportunity to tell a beautiful maritime and life adventure".

Milanka Štirbohar and Isidor Stankov spoke about the unusual life journey of construction engineer Srboljub Kojadinović from Belgrade, his wife, PhD in physics Jelena, and their two children - son Vanja and daughter Mila, who was born during this epoch-making voyage. They told numerous details about the genesis of the idea that by going to the ocean on a small sailing ship, the Kojadinovićs in the mid-seventies of the last century, escaped from the consumerist and hectic life in Captivated Europe in search of peace and a life in harmony with nature in distant regions where man's constant race for money and profit has not yet touched it, so those regions and the people who lived there still retain their originality, uncorruption and authenticity.

In this sense, the thirty-year journey of "Kli-Kli" across the three great oceans was a kind of cultural-sociological research as well as a nautical endeavor, especially considering that it was done by people from the continent, unfamiliar with the sea and with only basic knowledge of navigation. and nautical skills, and all this with the scarce and, for today's conditions, unimaginably primitive technological opportunities that recreational boaters had at their disposal almost half a century ago. Stankov and Štribohar announced that thousands of pages of various valuable documentation about "Kli-kli" and its voyage around the world that lasted from 1976 to 2000, which they received from Kojadinović together with the ship when they bought it, will be transferred to custody of the Maritime Museum.

The ship itself, when restored, will be nominated for protection as a movable cultural asset of Montenegro, Serbia and France, and in the future, in addition to the commercial purpose of the yacht for charter, "Kli-kli" will serve for the education of young people in seafaring and ecology, research missions sea, and multinational cooperation projects on the protection of the sea and maritime heritage.