PPR stands for ‘Professional Practices & Responsibilities‘. It is a new online course for those working professionally in the yachting industry. Whatever your job on board, you have a duty of care to crew, passengers & other water users.  You will be held to account if things on board go wrong, whether you are a [...]

I’m about to pre-order this book from Amazon. It’s due to be published any day now.    After a fire destroyed their house, Justin Ruthven-Tyers and his wife Linda decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees. Working under the watchful eye of local sheep farmers who gave [...]

~ a non-swimmer’s guide to adventures that are scary as heck, fun like crazy, & living to tell the tale! Princess Cox sailed with us in November 2011. Formally a self-confessed workaholic she was bitten by the sailing bug in the Netherlands, encouraged by us, and is now taking much overdue holidays on a quest to complete her RYA [...]

  Finding suitable flights is an important part of making arrangements for your sailing holiday. Our base on the lovely island of Aegina is easy to reach from Athens International airport and I’ve gathered some information here to help you find the best flights. About Athens Airport Athens International airport is called after Eleftherios Venizelos, who was [...]

Our clients often ask me what weather they can expect during a particular month. Recent times have seen changes in the weather in Greece, like everywhere on the planet. It’s not as predictable as it was 20 years ago. As sailors you’ll be interested in both temperature and wind but in this post I’ve only covered temperatures. I’ll [...]

The RYA (Royal Yachting Association) and the ASA (American Sailing Association) are the two most well-known organisations in sail training. They are a little different in size and scope as I explain later in this article. We often get asked what the difference is between the courses offered by the RYA and ASA and so [...]

If you are interested in joining us on our Scottish Adventure next June (click here for details) you may like to take a look at this website which has some stunning photographs showing the scenery you can expect. Denis Hardley is a well-known photographer in Oban, where George & I lived for many years. View [...]

… or so they say. In which case I guess we should be flattered that a competitor sailing school tried to imitate our website and even copied segments of text. Athens Sailing Academy’s latest website contained pages with some almost identical copy to ours. And, to top it all, they were offering to supply a [...]

Rod Heikell’s pilot books are well known as cruising guides to Greece. They are all fully illustrated with up-to-date plans, photographs and interesting articles on local history and customs as well as pilotage information. If you plan to charter or sail your own yacht in Greek waters next year why not ask Santa Claus to [...]

Do you struggle to remember how to tie a bowline? Many people learn the ‘rabbit comes out of the hole’ method when they are children but it never worked for me. I must have been taught to tie bowlines about six times but, after a week or so, I had forgotten how to do it. [...]