Tag Archive for: Bareboat

Bareboat Charter Athens Day 3

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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 […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 4

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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 […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 5

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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 […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 6

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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 […]

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Bareboat Charter Athens Day 7

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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 […]

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Bareboat Charter Rank Requires Experience

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Here is a great question from one of our students to one of our Vancouver based instructors at Vancouver Sailing School regarding experience and Rank advancement If you like the topic please LIKE it on facebook and g+1 it. Thanks it really helps us! How Can I Rise In Rank To Charter With Out Master of […]

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Bareboat Chartering in Martinique

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Bareboat chartering in Martinique is a hidden treasure in plan site. It is a big island in about the middle of the island chain between the British Virgin Islands and Grenada. It is a French territory and so if you like chocolate croissants and sailing – Martinique is a good match for you.

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Sailing in St. Vincent

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If you like this post – please LIKE it via facebook and G+1 it – thanks it helps us grow The guide books give St. Vincent a bad wrap and many people have told us to give it a miss. Our plan to sail from St. Lucia to Bequia Island however was not quite going […]

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Anchoring a Sailboat when Chartering

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Anchoring an unfamiliar boat Most charter boats use all chain anchor rode. The rules of anchoring say with chain you should use a 5:1 ratio. For example, for an overnight anchorage at a 4 meter depth plus 1 meter from the water line to your boat you should use 5×5 = 25 meters. If you […]

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