Sailing Vacations Archives

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 6

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is Day 6 of sailing in the BVI with BVI Yacht Charters for 10 days on a Lagoon 45 Catamaran In the morning we snorkeled the coral garden in the north east end of Savannah Bay for a second time. See day 5 for a quick underwater video of the coral. This area is […]

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days day 7

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Come along for day 7 of our trip to the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters of a Lagoon 45 Catamaran.

Sailing in the British Virgin Islands for 10 days – day 8-9-10

October 3, 2016/by Grant Headifen

This is days 8, 9, and 10 of our 10 day sailing vacation in the British Virgin Islands with BVI Yacht Charters on a Lagoon 45 Catamaran. Day 8 Some of the crew needed to leave early and so we sailed from the idyllic Cooper Island to Roadtown so that they could meet an 11:30 ferry. We […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Greece Day 1

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

We chartered a Catamaran from the Moorings in May 2016. We have to preface the whole Bareboat Charter Athens Greece report with a big OMG.

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 2

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Bareboat Charter in Athens Greece with The Moorings Sunday Day 2 Aigina – Perdika – Hydra Our plan for the week was to get going early each day so as to explore on the way then make it into the stay over port early to explore further. Our first early explore was the village of […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 3

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Monday Day 3 of 7 Hydra – Epimioni – Dhokos — Spetsai 6:30 am – now this is the thing to do. Get up super early, leave port and drift the boat about 1 mile out and have breakfast looking at a Greek town off the back deck of the boat. Here was our view […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 4

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Tuesday – Day 4 of 7 days sailing with The Moorings in Greece: Spetses – Poros We woke in the morning to find that the wind had swung as predicted by Pocket GRiB. We’d made a good choice on which side of the key to Med moor. Sam On-The-Rocks went back to town to buy his […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 5

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Day five of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Wednesday Poros to Russian Bay to Epidavros When motoring out of Poros you can’t emotionally go faster than 2 knots because the view of the town is so fantastic, especially the iconic clock tower. Here are some more sights […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 6

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Day six of seven: Sailing out from Athens with The Moorings on a Leopard 3900 Catamaran Thursday Epidavros to Ancient Theater to Vathi Clang Clang Clang go the Saxons to wake everyone’s ass up. We gotta get to the Ancient Epidavros Theater. Well at least that was the intention. The crew was dancing pretty hard […]

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 7

July 6, 2016/by Grant Headifen

Day 7 – Friday: Vathi to Perdika to Athens Cock-a-doodle-doo goes the local town rooster. “Last day” he says in rooster talk. I want to kill him. This has been such an amazing trip. But still … another day of fun ahead. Over a coffee in Vathi Port, I had a chat to our dock […]