If the weather and the team are good we sometimes go sailing with the whole group. During our last trip we noticed that the motor of the boat was making strange sounds and therefore decided to check if everything is okay. After we had realized that the propeller was broken […]
Sailing Experiences
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Summer is here! After a long and rainy winter, finally the sun came out again and we could finish the maintenance of the boat. We gave it a second coat of color, removed the pillars and also sandpapered and painted those areas. Other tasks were to put up the front […]
From the 18th to the 25th of August 2018 the Aegean Regatta took place in the Aegean Sea. There were two categories of participants: ORC International and ORC Club, of which ORC International is the more competitive one.
While the sailing boat is in the water from spring to autumn, whenever we don’t use it it’s parked in the Chios Marina. This is where we also check if everything is alright, before we go for bigger excursions.
Our first time in the City of Chios, our first night on a sailing boat, our first sailing experience… This weekend has been really adventurous. We arrived at the port of Chios City with our sleeping bags, bread, a melon and many expectations. But we still had to wait, our […]
Last Sunday, our boss took us to a little sailing trip. Now that our project has bigger dimensions and we are eight volunteers, three of us live and work in Katarraktis. Since Friday they spent their weekend with us in Vrontados. To get back to Katarraktis Dimitris usually drives them […]
The second last weekend in March was already the first warm and sunny one with a nice wind. Therefore it was the perfect date and preconditions for the Aegean Sailing Championship 2015 in Chios. Apart from being too old for participating in those races anyway, our sailing skills were also […]
We used one of the last warm autumn days this year for doing a sailing trip to that we had been looking forward for a while: We visited beautiful and unique Island Oinousses next to Chios Island! The Aegean Sea, which was a little bit turbulent at this Sunday morning, […]
Imagine that: one week, over 100 sailing boats and 4 sailing races from island to island. What I am talking about? The Aegean Regatta 2014, one of the biggest annual sailing races in Greece! And the best part is that we, the European volunteers from Chios, were a part of […]
Because we wanted to take full advantage of the calm sea and sunny weather we invited some of the local children into our sailing boat to go swimming with them. They were very interested and excited about being in a real sailing boat and learned quickly how to steer it […]
Seems like we have a think for becoming 3rd in sailing races: While we became 3rd out of 4 in our first race, we also became 3rd in our second race but with the slight difference that this time the race had six participants! So we are obviously getting better […]