BAREBOAT CHARTERING IN GREECE
An online class that offers practical, experience-based advice for chartering in Greece.
This class covers a range of topics related to bareboat chartering in Greece spanning from the geography, the climate, the sailing season, and the prevailing winds. You'll learn about possible itineraries, the nautical publications, the charter agreement, and the procedures/formalities.
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WHY CHARTER A YACHT IN GREECE?
Because it is considered one of the best sailing destinations in the world; Why? It’s the color and the crystal blue waters of the sea, the sunny and dry climate, the many different islands and destinations, the history and the culture, the food, and of course the people and way of life. For all these reasons sailing in Greece is a lifetime experience.
TOPICS COVERED
GEOGRAPHY
- An introduction to Greek geography.
- A brief description of the two main Greek Seas, the Aegean and the Ionian.
CLIMATE AND SAILING SEASON
- Sailing season
- Prevailing winds
- Thermally driven winds
ITINERARIES
- Entry Points to cruising
- Planning a cruise itinerary
- Time and distance
- Degrees of difficulty
NAVIGATING THE GREEK SEAS
- Nautical Publications
- Charts
- List of Lights
- Pilot book
- Navionics
- GPS
- Tips for safe coastal and electronic navigation.
- Taking a good forecast
- Avoiding navigation hazards
- Tides and currents
- Mediterranean mooring
PROCEDURES AND REPORTING ISSUES
- The charter agreement; a legal binding document.
- Insurance and liability.
- Skipper’s briefing / checkin & checkout procedures / inventory list
- Reporting issues.
Your Host
DIMITRIS BAMPAKOS
Dimitris Bampakos is a former Captain of the Greek Navy. Most of his 26 years of service in the Navy was at sea as a captain, executive officer, and deck officer on board frigates and fast patrol boats where he did more than 200.000 miles all over the world.
He first learned how to sail when he was a midshipman at the Greek Naval Academy. After his last command on board a warship in 2006, he started cruising and racing every summer in the Aegean and lonian Seas in Greece.
When serving in the USA from 2013 to 2016, he completed successfully all the American Sailing certifications and became an ASA instructor up to the offshore ocean passage level (ASA 208). Since then he has become an Instructor Evaluator.
Dimitris has cruised and raced in Chesapeake Bay as well as in the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean. He has been an instructor at Flagship Sailing School located in Ruskin, Florida and he has taught sailing, seamanship, and navigation. In March 2019 he founded Fair Winds Sailing Greece which is an official American Sailing School based on the island of Corfu Greece.
Captain Dimitris Bampakos also holds a masters in Electronic System Engineering and has taught radar and naval communications systems at a postgraduate level since 2000.
