Sailing cruises from Athens/Aegina

Sailing Greek islands on a yacht charter

We stop often in nice coves for lunch and enjoy the sea. Use the snorkeling and fishing gear on board and also a paddle.

Itineraries :

Here are the indicative itineraries and spots we can visit during our sailing cruises from Athens/Aegina in May, June, September and October.

From Piraeus (the harbor of Athens) there is dozens ferries and "dolphins" each day to Aegina and fast ones need just 40 minuts. You can take a mornig Ferry and then set sails immediatly, or arrive the evening and spend your first night on board in Aegina harbor.

So Aegina is very easy to reach from Athens, and starting from there allows us to optimize the itinerary in the islands and Peloponnese.
These indicative itineraries are for one week, if you hire the yacht for a shorter period, just let us know your priorities to do the best itinerary for you.

1st Itinerary: Argo-Saronic islands and Epidaurus

This quiet itinerary (with shorter sailing routes) allows to have plenty of time to enjoy the islands and small coves:

Aegina island - Kyra islet - Epidavros - Poros - Hydra - Spetses - Perdika - Angistri islet - Aegina

2nd Itinerary: Argo-Saronic islands - West coast of Peloponnese - Monemvasia :

This itinerary allows to discover the wild coast of West Peloponnese up to Monemvasia. The day you visit Monemvasia there is no lunch on board as you will be on shore, and it is a day with only breakfast on board.

Aegina - Poros - Hydra - Kyparissi - Monemvasia - Ieraka - Fokianos - Spetse - Aegina

The captain can suit the itinerary to your wishes taking in consideration different elements as harbours, weather forecast, time of sailing and... return date. In one day cruise you can spend time swimming in a cove, visit Epidaurus and come back the evening to Aegina, or make the round of Aegina and visit the Aphaia temple. In 2 days you can do both, in 3 days you can also go to Hydra etc...
If you take a 2 weeks cruise, we can go to all the spots mentionned below and even sail to Elafonisos and Kythira...

Photo Gallery of these itineraries

Starting point Aegina means you are immediatly in vacations, far from big city...

The Aegina temple of Aphaea, Greek Godess associated with fertility, is one of the three temples of the sacred triangle Parthenon, Sounion and Aphaea.
Thanks to Sarah C. Murray and Axel Berger for the photos of Aegina.

Beautiful Hydra island, former very powerful maritime place.
Thanks to Emmanuel Eragne, Francisco J. Gonzales and Sue Reynolds for the photos of Hydra.

With the creation of the Greek state, the island lost its maritime position, one reason was that piracy become impossible... :-)

In the beautiful Hydra, cars and motorcycles are not allowed by law. Horses, donkeys and water taxis provide public transportation.

Spetses island played an important role in the Greek War of Independence and was the home of celebrated war heroine Bouboulina.
Thanks to Gerry Labrijn and Klipsch Fan for the photos of Spetses.

Very few cars also in Spetses, but octopus (considered "a meal fit for a king" in Greek antiquity) and ouzo are never far...

For those who choose the Monemvasia itinerary, is time to sail South...

The wild West coast of Peloponnese, not easy to reach by car, offers very nice places as Kyparisi...

Thanks to Matt Barrett Econopouly for these pictures of Kyparisi.

Monemvasia peninsula, "Gibraltar of the East", the site of a powerful medieval fortress.

William II of Villehardouin took it in 1248, on honourable terms, after three years of siege. Thank's to Spiros Vathis, K. Payavlas and Pavel69 for the photos of Monemvassia.

After spending most of the day to visit Monemvasia, we sail the evening to the impressive natural harbor of Geraka, with few fishing taverns...

Next day we sail North back to Argo-Saronic islands, discovering one last nice place of Peloponnese : Fokianos. Photo : Fanis Panoramio

Poros island has volcanic origin and is separated to Peloponnese by a 200 meters chenal.

Thanks to Centophobia, Doug Knuth and Llee Wu for the photos of Poros.

Poros from the mainland.

Still an island with her fishing boats.

Those who choose to stroll in the islands rather than go down to Monemvasia will visit the natural harbor of old Epidavros, the ancients knew where to make a harbor ! Photo by Anatakti.

And of course the impressive famous Epidavros Theater ! Photo by Ronny Slegel.

prices

Not included: VAT 12% - crew gratuities – marinas fees
Lump sum contribution to the fund board for provisionning, half-board and open-bar : 275 Euro per person for the week, to be paid on boarding time (130 for children up to 12) or 45 Euro per day (25 for children).

Sailing from Athens/Aegina... Private cruise only, duration of your choice.

Itineraries :

1st Itinerary: Argo-Saronic islands and Epidaurus

2nd Itinerary: Argo-Saronic islands - West coast of Peloponnese - Monemvasia :

Photo Gallery of these itineraries