While on our Evia trip we also found that we had a guest who was not on our passenger list. Cecil the cicada had great acoustic talents and accompanied us for many miles clinging to the underside of the bimini. He disappeared as we neared Evia – we hope he flew to land rather than [...]

Ian and I recently made a trip to Evia. We were with George and Anne Johnstone, who sail with us each year. We try to take them somewhere that they have not been before and this year we decided to head towards the island of Evia. On the way we anchored for lunch in one of the [...]

This is George’s account of his recent trip on the yacht, Harmony. “I had been asked to join the crew of Harmony, a Beneteau 50, to do a YM Prep for the owner, John Robinson. John and his wife, Caroline, did their Day Skipper and Competent Crew course with us last year. This July John took [...]

You read it here first …  An Irishman now based in Switzerland writes: “I hereby challenge the Geneva sailing club for the America’s Cup.” See the full article at - Batten down the hatches « The Swiss Job - he is looking for crew! Maybe our students from the post below might be interested?

Here is a nice photograph of Zotelot taken just outside Aegina harbour. On board are an Irish group – Shane Russell, Jane McCusker, James O’Keeffe, and Padraig O’Donoghue – who all successfully completed their Competent Crew with us. I understand that they had a heavy night in Poros the evening before this picture was taken [...]

  Here are Christine (11) and Kassie (7) from Russia proudly showing their Start Yachting certificates. They were awarded these by skipper, George, for their participation in a sailing week we ran for their father, Ray Church. Ray and his wife, Elena, completed their Day Skipper and Competent Crew respectively with us in 2007. Ray followed this with [...]

.. like the hat, Ian

George has the reputation for being the superchef on our team, but here Ian shows that he is also at home in the galley. He tells me that the dish he is preparing above was ’fried bananas in chocolate sauce with Metaxa’. Yum. Maybe we should produce an Aegean Sailing School cookbook?

Alex sailed with us in May for two weeks. He passed his Competent Crew and Day Skipper, doing a weekend theory course in between. He sent me loads of photos today, all of which were great. It was hard to choose some to put up on the Blog but I chose these to give a [...]

This is a nice photo of Valentine taken last week. She sails beautifully and is very comfortable here in her home waters of Greece. On board are the Ewing family from Oregan, USA. Sam and Catherine Ewing successfully completed a 9 day combined Day Skipper theory and practical course, while Rees and Spencer obtained their [...]