And for five months of the year, they have no home. While the guests on their boats enjoy their vacation, the brothers Pave, Joze and Tonči Šerka from Postir miss birthdays, family gatherings, communions and numerous moments that most people take for granted. Their working day does not last eight hours a day. It doesn’t end with going home after the shift. You work, eat, sleep and live on board.
But the life of the Šerka family is not only a story about tourism, shipbuilding and successful business. It is a story about work that lasts for decades, about loans that had to be repaid, about risks that had to be taken and about family togetherness that survived two generations. It started long before luxury charters, foreign guests and ships sailing the Adriatic today.
It was all started by their father, Josip Šerka,…
