CLASSIC CRUISES in Greece

E. g. 7 Days Saronic Golf and East Cost Peleponnese
on

M/Y Amanda

Organized by Karl Anno Friederich von Loebbecke, your holiday partner, servicing you from booking until the end of your charter cruise

Harbours and bays visited during the cruise:
Poros town harbour; Bay of Tzelevinia; Hydra harbour; the harbour of Plaka Leonidion; Monembasia harbour; the fiord of Gerakas; a bay and the harbour of Spetsae island; Nauplia town harbour as alternate to Spetsae island depending on season; the old harbour of Epidavros; Aigina town harbour.Abbreviations from the itinerary can be done as well on negotiation before booking, as well on spontaneous request during the cruise, dependent on weather conditions and other nautical terms.

The Boat

Specifications

Built by Graham Bunn, Norfolk, England, in 1953, rebuilt in 1983, renovated in 2008
Length 78 feet, 26m, deck and hull wood (teak)
Twin Rolls Royce engines 200 B.H.P. each, cruising speed 12 knots
Fuel capacity 4.000 litres., water capacity 3.000 litres.
Electric supply 220 Volt AC, 110 Volt DC
Air-Condition throughout the boat; running Hot Water in all wash basins and showers

Tender:
Speedboat Zodiacck 40 hp, gear for windsurfing and waterskiing

Accommodation:
Master-Cabin with double + 1 single berth, 2 double berth cabins, 2 bathrooms, in bow 1 double or alternative 4 single berths + own bathroom.

The M/Y AMANDA is an all over mahogany boat, built in 1953 in England.
The interior with it´s mahogany panel of best quality, darkened with the decades, in contrast to the ivory-white carpet throughout the boat causes a cosy yet light-friendly atmosphere. Air condition is individual adjustable in all cabins, additional to big port wholes, which can be all opened . Three living areas, the saloon, the lounge with a wide sliding door to the aft deck and there the shady settee provide comfort and generous space. A spacious bridge with a wide bench at the helm give the invite the guests to have a look at the sea-charts of the cruise area and over the shoulder of the captain to watch him at his work. As well your kids are allowed to take over the steering of the boat, the captain will have tout them quickly how to do the helmsman.
Continental sockets (Schuko) of 220 Volt charge your mobile phone, camera, hair dryer and the laptop (at nearly all parts of the cruise is excess to internet receivable). You can use your CDs or plug in your i-Pod to the inside/outside stereo. M/Y AMANDA provides accommodation for 8+1 guests in 4 double-bed cabins and 3 crew cabin in a separate area at the stern of the boat. The master-cabin is spacious and has got an extra bed (therefore: + 1 guests). The three cabins in the midship (see drawing) share two bath-rooms; the cabin in the bow is provided with an own toilet/shower. Here the extra wide double-bed can be converted to 4 single berths (like shown in the drawing), so that AMANDA can as well can provide accommodation to up to 11 guests.

You will be picked up from the Athens international Airport by the Organizer Karl, brought to AMANDA  by ordered taxis in a 30 min. drive and welcomed on board by the captain and the owner of the yacht. In case of arrival on board by latest 17:00 h local time, the yacht can set sails the same day and the evening can be spend already anchoring in a quiet bay. You will be asked when booking about your special wishes and preferences concerning food and drinks, so that the boat is provisioned already at your arrival. According to our experience the expenses for this are about 48 to 50.- EURO per person per day (full board meals, not counted any alcoholic drinks).

The Cruise

 

Stations during the here suggested Saronic Classic Cruise are:
The island of Poros with it´s pine tree forests reaching down to the many bays and beaches and it´s various hidden archaeological and historic sites and it´s picturesque harbour.
The once and still rich little harbour of Hydra, the town ascending like an amphitheatre round the narrow small harbour basin; international meeting point of many, partly well known, artists and often headed for by the yachts of “the rich and beauty”, in fact the more noble Myconos.

 

And next door Spetsae, the traditional weekend island of the Athens upper class, with it´s smaller neighbour island Spetsopoulos, owned by the Greek Shipowner family Nearchos, where this famous rival of Aristoteles Onassis did murder his own wife (which never could get proved, of which us can learn how handy it is to have an own island for such dirty jobs.

Hearing about such, we quickly do the cross at the nun-monastery, glued to the vertical rocks high above the vis-á-vis tiny harbour of Leonidion, and in the evening we will drink a glass or two at Margarita´s in third generation run tavern, the former post-steamer station.
If the winds are with us, we will then follow the (long long ago last up stirred) wake of the former steam-liner along the dramatic steep rocky coast of the Peloponnese South-wards until Monembasia, the Gibraltar of the East Mediterranean. At the foot of this gibraltaric rock with it´s endless, rich history is sitting an entirely preserved Middle-Age town, one of the most beautiful and interesting historic sites Greece has got.

As a station during the return to Athens, one can head for the old harbour of Epidavros and eventually (in July/August) visit an evening performance of an ancient tragedy in the famous amphitheatre of Epidavros.
The last station of the cruise is usually the island of Aigina close to Athens, with it´s best preserved temple of whole Greece, the Aphaias-Temple, from which´s fries the marble figures were stolen by – no, in this case not by Lord Elgin, but – King Ludwig I. of Bavaria, and brought to his head town Munich, where he got built the so called Glyptothek, a neoclassic column surrounded building for to store these Aphaia marbles and lots of other antique classic (stolen) stuff. So, next time you are at Munich, don´t miss to visit the Glyptothek, before the Greeks start to claim these Marbles back as well.

 

Additional Costs

To the further up mentioned provisioning costs will have to be added the expense for fuel. Translated into Euro, the engines consume about € 80,- per cruising hour. The ship´s owner gets the fuel in transit tax free and passes this advantage onwards to the client, so that the client pays only about € 40.- per cruising hour.
The cook requires between 50.- and 70.- Euro per day (not all cooks charge the same wages, but do have in any case a proper education and experience as ships cook).
From a charter party of 5 persons on, the cook should be assisted by a steward, for whom an additional € 40.- to 50.- per day is required. The captain and one crew are continuously employed to the yacht and are included in the charter fee of  € 1,500.-
For my personal accompanying the cruise on your request, I charge € 200.- per day.
By mobile phone, Telephone/Fax and Internet I will in any case be continuously on your disposal, from booking until the end of the cruise.

 

CLASSIC CRUISES in Greece
developed, organized and serviced by Karl Anno Friederich von Loebbecke, based on 30 years experience in charter business and 35 years experience of sailing all Greek seas.

Your Host KARL v. LOEBBECKE, POROS, OCTOBER 2008

"Experience is the name, man has given to his mistakes"

 

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