Sailing the Trails of Herodotus and Odysseus
Posted in Sailing, Sailing Croatia, Sailing Greece, Sailing Montenegro on Jul 3rd, 2011
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Some five weeks ago I departed from Murter, Croatia, to sail south to the inland sea of Levkada in Greece…
My sailing yacht Helena, a Beneteau Cyclades 39, is very easy to handle and performs well, including the Genaker, one of my trip gadgetsthe ultimate toy. Top speed we reached was [...]
Posted in Library on Jan 8th, 2011
When sailing around the Levkas area, anchoring in deep blue bays, hopping around the mountainous islands and mingling with the locals, you don’t think immediately of war and the cruelty people can do to each other in such times. When reading “Captain Correlli’s Mandolin” by Louis de Bernières you will be confronted with life during war and [...]
Posted in Sailing on Oct 22nd, 2008
Big City Kalamos
Kalamos is just such a very relaxed, low speed, easy island. The name Kalamos is said to be coming from reeds. If you see the stony island, you know for sure there has to be some very distant explanation for that.
Some people argue that the origins from the name of the island came [...]
Posted in Sailing on Oct 8th, 2008
The first day we left Nisos Lefkas (Nisos means island in Greek), Lefkas City or Lefkada to be more specific, with as destination Nisos Kalamos about eleven hour. The weather was cloudy and no wind at all. Therefore we knew we had to use the engine for the biggest part of the trip. The distance [...]
Posted in Sailing on Sep 30th, 2008
Back from sailing the Ionian Sea. A week with the perfect combination of sailing, learning, ouzing (which is the verbal form of drinking Ouzo – soon to be found in the Webster dictionary), dining and some nice and spectacular variations in the weather.
Now I am trained in anchoring the Greek small and shallow harbours. I [...]
Posted in Sailing on Sep 12th, 2008
Bought the marine chart (Greece | Ionian | The Inland Sea G121) for sailing around in the Lefkas area next week.
Published by Imray Tetra, so probably there are some copyright on the picture below, so please don’t tell them and buy your carts from them
As I know the area already – I have [...]
