Our Characters of the Sea series is set on bringing you different characters from all walks of life who have some affiliation, connection or passion for the sea and not all are as obvious as the salty-seadogs. Take this week's character Luka Grubor for example, you may be wondering what a former Great Britain Olympic rower and the Adriatic have in common? Well, read on and find out.

After the highly successful annual Sveti Duje Rowing Regatta on May 1, 2016, TCN caught up with one of the organisers, Luka Grubor, to find out how the rowing teams of Oxford and Cambridge University end up in the Dalmatian capital every May. Grubor, himself a 1997 boat race veteran of the most famous boat race in the world, also won Olympic Gold for Britain in the 2000 Games in Sydney in the men's eight. Living in Split these days, he is the co-founder of the popular event.