Posted in 986775, Events and Stories, Powerboating, Sailing on 6 December, 2007 | No Comments »
… would YOU know how best to survive at sea?
Well equipped yachts carry modern safety equipment to help you - lifejackets, flares, EPIRB, and liferaft. Hopefully most people will never have to use any of this equipment in earnest.
But if you were in an emergency situation, would you know what to do?
The RYA one-day Sea [...]
Posted in 986775, Crew Club, Events and Stories, Sailing on 30 October, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The October 2007 mile building trip to the Cyclades was due to start on the afternoon of Saturday 21 October. On Friday night a gale warning went out for the week end – Force 9 for the Sunday. There were nine people of six different nationalities booked to sail with me. Most of the crew were [...]
Posted in Events and Stories, Sailing on 25 September, 2007 | No Comments »
After a really smooth running summer the last few weeks have brought us a number of problems.
The major one is that Zotelot, our Oceanis 400, was taken up to the Ionian for three weeks in August. Unfortunately she had an engine fire and has not yet been able to return to the Aegean. There was [...]
Posted in Crew Club, Sailing, tagged chart, crew photos, Martin, sunset on 25 September, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are some photographs that I have been sent by Agathi Vallianatos, Natali Fili, and Janet Mehers, who sailed on Erofili with Martin on 9 September. Also on board were John Mehers and Natasha Chia.
At this time of year we generally get a number of people travelling alone as well as couples. It is really nice to see [...]
Posted in Crew Club, Sailing, tagged Dufour Atoll, Papazafs, pirate flag, Sailing on 24 September, 2007 | No Comments »
During the week 16 September we augmented our normal fleet (well, fleet is a bit grand but it sounds good ..) with Papazafs, a Dufour Atoll. As we celebrated International Talk Like a Pirate Day during that week the crew planned to return to Aegina dressed as pirates and flying a suitable flag.
They stopped the [...]
Posted in Crew Club, Sailing on 23 August, 2007 | No Comments »
On 4 August we welcomed Paul King and his sister, Lesley Vieler, with their families. Paul lives in England and Lesley in South Africa.
Their children are very close in age and get on famously, but had not seen each other for two years. There was great excitement when they all arrived and met up again [...]
Posted in Sailing, Special Offers on 17 August, 2007 | No Comments »
We are now fully booked until 23 September.
Here is our current availability and special offer prices on late season bookings:
23 September - plenty of places - price now 800 euro / 550 UK pounds
30 September - 2 places left - price 750 euro / 515 UK pounds - NOW FULL
7 October - [...]
Posted in Crew Club, Sailing on 14 August, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are some great photos of Ian and Suzanne, our instructors, with their students - Shukri (Chuck) Alfa, Georgina Lawrie, Valerie Krizan, Jon Papworth, Peter Clouting, and Ruth Bordoli.
There is also the first photograph we’ve had of Zotelot’s spinnaker - I must put it on our website.
Click on the thumbnails for a larger image. Thanks, [...]
Posted in Crew Club, Sailing on 7 August, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are two nice photographs taken of our yachts returning from their courses to Aegina on Friday afternoon.
In the green corner, on Zotelot with Suzanne Bourke, are Pater and Gail Stanway from the UK, who sailed with Suzanne in New Zealand last year, and Tim Black and Aggeliki Christou from Switzerland.
And in the blue corner, on [...]
Posted in General Nonsense, Sailing on 7 August, 2007 | No Comments »
Came across this the other day - I can’t remember where but if I do I will post a credit. I thought it was great.
We’ve got plenty of wind here at the moment but there are days …
