Sailing

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 […]

For us “sailing rookies” was a historical day today: We participated in a real sailing race which was at the same time our first sailing experience ever! Earlier that day we prepared our sailing boat “Olympia” by putting the sails in the right position. This noon the real sailing begun: […]

Today our sailing boat “Olympia” returned into the Aegean sea for the first time in 2014! It was dropped into the water at the ship yard, from where we drove carefully around the coast cliffs to the Marina port at Chios City. it took us around two hours to drive […]

The temperature is rising and the clouds said goodbye until October. The only sport that won’t cause overheating now is sailing in the beautiful Aegean sea! But before we can do that, we need to finish the last details on our sailing boat “Olympia”. Therefore we painted the keel with […]

What is always necessary when something was not used for several months? Exactly, it has to be cleaned! This rule also applies to our sailing boat “Olympia”, which is still patiently waiting to be back in the sea. That’s why we armed ourselves with soap, a sponge, a bucket and […]

The summer is about to come and what is better than preparing ourselves and our sailing boat Olympia? We put on our solar cream, sunglasses and old clothes for starting to fix the boat for the sailing season. First we removed the rust of the screw/propeller with sandpaper, that took […]

Last week we used for the first time our great boat Olympia. It was a very sunny and beautiful day and we left all together to the shipyard to see how the boat was carried into the water. Firstly a boat carriage was driven under the boat and later the […]