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.

Yacht and Itineraries :

Below are the indicative itineraries and spots we can visit during our sailing cruises from Piraeus (the harbor of Athens). These indicative itineraries are for one week.
The classic yacht Amanda can suit a group up to 12 guests in 5 cabins. A special experience on board one of the first private gentleman's motor yacht ever built in UK at the shipyard of GRAHAM BUNN (WROXHM) NORFOLK in 1956.
She was constructed from wood with teak deck. Hull construction is of double diagonal moulded construction with timber planking laid diagonally with calico between the skins and nailed through with copper boat nails and roves. She is powered by 2 Rolls Royce diesel engines of 200 BHP each which perform up to-day trouble free.

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:

Piraeus - Aegina island - Kyra islet - Epidavros - Poros - Hydra - Spetses - Perdika - Angistri islet - Piraeus
In case of shared yacht this is the itinerary with the possible option to include Nafplion

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.

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

The captain can suit the itinerary to your wishes taking in consideration different elements as harbours, weather forecast, time of sailing and... return date.
If you take a 2 weeks cruise, we can go to all the spots mentionned below and even sail to Elafonisos and Kythira...

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Aegina port

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...

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.

From Athens to the Argo Saronic islands... May, June, September and October.

Yacht and Itineraries :

1st Itinerary: Argo-Saronic islands and Epidaurus

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

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