Hoist The Sails in GREECE!

Our meeting point is the marina Kos, which is 25km from Kos International Airport “Ιppokratis” (KGS).

Meeting day and time

Please remember the following:

• Before the check-in day your skipper will email you and your crew to coordinate the very details of the first day and agree on the exact meeting point. Upon arrival you will recognize the yacht you will sail on by the Naleia Yachting flags.
• Check-in time: 15h. It would be great if you could arrive to the marina before 15h to have enough time to provision the yacht together with your crew. Later arrivals are allowed if you don’t have any choice. Your crew will do the shopping for you, so be considerate and bring them a little thank-you present. Sweets from your home country work best ;). We will leave the marina on Sunday morning, after the breakfast, and after the safety briefing.
• Check-out time: 9h on the last day of the trip (Saturday). We will probably already return to the marina Friday evening and spend the last night in Kos. We may go out to share a dinner in the city and spend the last night on the boat talking long into the evening and making sure that our memories stay long time.

Learn To Sail Course

Included in every trip we organize is a basic sailing course. We follow the methodology of the Royal Yachting Association and we go with you through the Competent Crew course. The course may be extended to a more advanced manoeuvres if needed. The course is absolutely free of charge and the purpose is that you understand how to participate in most of the sailing related activities, feel safe and comfortable on the yacht and catch a bit of passion for sailing. The skipper is there for you to offer guidance while you and the crew are there to sail the boat. It’s a hands on experience. The sailing course serves also as a form of team building: providing easy goals for the crew to be achieved together.

Price: free; pre-course experience: none; assumed knowledge: none; minimum age: none; awarded certificate: none; sea miles confirmation: on request.

Course content: knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, rigging and sails, sail handling, ropework, fire precautions and fighting, personal safety equipment, man overboard, emergency equipment, meteorology, seasickness, helmsmanship, general duties, manners and customs, rules of the road, standard manoeuvres, dinghies.

Ability after the course: able to steer, handle sails and trim them to the wind, keep a lookout, avoid collisions, navigate (basic), read charts, plan a daily passage, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day routines. Example of manoeuvres which you should be able to perform with your crew: hoisting and putting down the sails, jibing, tacking, trimming the sails, man overboard,  Example of manoeuvres where you will assist your skipper: anchoring, mooring at the buoy, mooring in the marina.

Arriving instructions

TAXI
The fastest way of getting from the airport to the marina is to take a taxi. The Kos airport taxi ride to the port of Kos should not cost more than 40€, while the total trip takes around 30 minutes.

LOCAL BUS

The journey from the airport to the port by bus costs 3.20€ with a trip duration of approximately 45 minutes.

MARINA ADDRESS
Geor. Papandreou, Kos, 85300, Tel: +30 22420 44160

Additional Costs Sailing GREECE

~120€ pp/week

Apart from the booking fee there are variable additional costs which you should budget for. Additional costs highly depend on the way you and your crew want to spend the trip. These costs are only to be paid upon arrival. A volunteer from your crew will handle all the boat expenses.

Additional costs cover:

• Food: groceries, drinking water for the yacht, food for the skipper (ca. 80% of the total)
• Yacht running costs: marina fees and diesel fuel (ca. 20% of the total)

Please note that these additional costs do not include restaurant bills or alcoholic drinks.

We’ll discuss our budget in the beginning of the week, and decide collectively whether we want to eat out at all. Due to the variety of wonderful and relatively good-valued tavernas in Greece, we usually aim for one night out, one night cooking on board.