Emilia Melody Wright aged 3 days Our grand-daughter, Emilia Wright, was born in Cambridge on Sunday 3 February. She is absolutely perfect and we’re delighted with her. To celebrate her birth, we’re giving away a bottle of champagne to the next five people who book with us (one lucky person has already won a bottle [...]

Learning to sail is a great way to meet new people and to explore the Saronic Gulf. Why not join us on one or more of our winter weekend courses and you’ll be all ready to use your new skills next Spring? Our weekend courses run between November and March. The sailing courses will be [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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. [...]

  Are you interested in a powerboat course on either  31 August / 1 September, over the weekend 3-4 September, or another date in late August/early September? We have someone who wants to take a course then. It’s not viable for us to run a course for just one person so I’m looking for other [...]

Many European countries require the skippers of pleasure boats to be able to provide evidence of their competence. It is generally useful, and in some countries† essential, to carry an ICC (International Certificate of Competence) As an RYA recognised training centre we can carry out tests for the ICC for eligible candidates. If you have successfully completed [...]

This isn’t an April Fool’s trick but you’d be a fool not to take advantage of our special prices if you can sail on any of the following dates … 17 – 23 APRIL: 6- DAY SPRING SAILING – 2 PLACES AVAILABLE – 40% OFF! We have two places available from 18:30 Sunday 17 April [...]