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Equipment to Ensure Smooth Sailing

A yacht is a sophisticated vessel and requires a large amount of equipment to function. While many of things come standard on any size yacht, some may need to be brought along with you or checked that they are indeed already in place.

Registration Papers and all documentation pertaining to the yacht must be kept on board.

Anchors are essential on board a yacht. Should you find the perfect idyllic spot to stop and go snorkelling, swimming or scuba diving, an anchor is the only way to ensure that your yacht won’t have drifted away by the time you return.

Boat Hooks protect you from injury during the docking process.

Mooring Lines are used during the docking process, which is often the trickiest part of a journey. Relying on equipment to hold the yacht steady and bring her into dock is much safer and more reliable than your arms and legs.

Navigation Lights are usually a federal requirement on board any yacht, particularly on those that are motorised. Their use is mandatory after dark.

A Bilge Pump or any other type of de-watering device is used in the event of the yacht beginning to take on water.

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Be in comfort, with your own crew, your private sun and blue skies. For privacy, any island offers remote beaches, secluded bays or almost barren rocks, all hospitable. However, like the Greek people, you can be on your own, sailing, swimming, skiing or just relaxing. For comfort, an experienced crew is eager to make you feel like royalty. Fabulous nautical holidays in Greece, The sea and sun constitute two basic ingredients, charter yachts the third. Greece, the land of the Sun and the Gods, offers you an endless variety of picturesque places from which to choose those that suit you. For exclusivity, there are countless places in Greece, which remain unspoiled by tourism. They are not all that far away, but access to them is impossible except by yacht! Drink your champagne into a cave where the sea takes colours from a wide palette, have your steward to offer your snacks in a secluded bay with white sandy beach! Enjoy in Greek rich history, Mediterranean food, Wines.
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The First Yachts

The Yacht was the vessel of choice for many explorers in the 17th Century. Spacious enough to house several men as well as several months’ worth of supplies, including fresh produce to avoid the dreaded scurvy, these Yachts were fast, nimble and seaworthy – perfect for exploring unchartered waters. The Duyfken, which dropped the first western visitors on Australian shores in 1606, was a small 60 ton Yacht and, similarly, the coast of New Zealand was first sighted from the deck of such a vessel 36 years later.

Besides being an ideal exploration vessel, early Yachts also played a pivotal role in many great wars and battles. The Dutch favoured the Yacht as armed tenders and the now famous Duyfken was a critical player in the infamous battle against a blockade of Portuguese ships which essentially ended the Iberian dominance of the spice trade in 1601. As warships grew bigger with improved technology, the Yacht settled into the role of courier during war time, relying on its speed to pass on vital information in a hurry.

The Beginnings of Yachting for Pleasure

Boating and yachting for pleasure is almost as old as boating itself. Egyptian Pharaohs recognised the splendour of water travel and were buried alongside elaborate barges to transport them through the afterlife in elegance and style. But it was in the late 1600’s, many thousands of years later that the joys of water recreation became more attainable and part of everyday life.  Read more...

When the time comes around for a family vacation, there can be some argument on where everybody wants to go.  And if you have young children, the united appeal will often be to go to a theme park which for many adults is a huge waste of money and vacation time as well.  For adults particularly, a real vacation can be had by chartering a yacht in some exciting part of the world and seeing the sights from the deck of your own seafaring boat with an attentive crew waiting for every whim you may wish to have fulfilled.

To resolve the conflict on where to go for vacation, it helps if you can discuss openly with the kids why yachting is a lot better than Disneyland and build some real excitement about the trip, or at least enough curiosity for them to be willing to stop yelling to see Goofy and Mickey and turn their eyes to the sea like mom and dads are already.

You may not want to say this directly to the kids but the real reason taking a yacht adventure onto the high seas is naturally going to be a superior vacation to a theme park is that everything in a theme park is manufactured.  You never have a real adventure.  Every ride, every sight, every video and every character you meet is fictional, fabricated and designed to make you have the sensation of an adventure without really having one.  To the kids meeting that Mickey Mouse character on the streets of Disneyland is a big thrill while mom and dad know that there is an actor inside that poorly designed Mickey Mouse suit who is just doing a nine to five job to pay the bills.  Read more...