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| Tonnage: 130 Metric tons | Generators: One 22 kw, one 15 kw |
| Length: 112 Ft (34.30 m) | Electric Power: 110/220 Volt |
| Beam: 18 Ft. (5.73 m) | Draft: 5.7 Ft.(1.80 m) |
| Water Capacity: 9 tons | Electronic Equipment: standard |
| Engines: Two Glenifer DC 8 160 hp each | Speed: Maximum 11 knots |
| Fuel Tank Capacity: 6 tons Diesel, 2,200 miles range | Safety Equipment according to international standard, including |
| Hull: Double diagonal mahogany canvas heart, steel reinforced ribs including one automatic inflatable life raft for 25 persons |
Boats and other Equipment:
One fibreglass double bottom speed-boat for water skiing with 40 hp outboard, Waterskiing equipment One dinghy with 5 hp outboard, Clay-pigeon shooting equipment
The "Crew (5)":
Captain Nikos, the Cook, the Stewardess and your Host Karl welcome you on board
The Interior of GOLDEN ARROW
We are just refurbishing the interior of GOLDEN ARROW. Nine cabins for twenty guests, four cabins with own bathroom, five cabins share three bathrooms, all cabins have portholes and air-condition.
New pictures coming soon !!
The Cruise Program
Your host will accompany You on Your cruise and take care that this cruise program will be fulfilled in comfort and with pleasure and - in all relaxation - as well be informative and inspiring.
Day of arrival:
Transfer from Athens Airport to Astor Hotel in the very centre of Athens (see www.Astorhotel.gr). Check in: Double room with balcony, air condition, TV, mini bar, service. Early supper at the Roof Garden Restaurant of Astor Hotel with Akropolis in view.
1st day:
08:00h: Opportunity for "early birds" to visit the Akropolis "before the masses invade it".
10:00h: Joining with the "late birds" at one of the nicest Street Cafes of Athens for breakfast and introduction to Your host.
13:00h: Transfer to Yacht harbour Zeas, lunch at a grand classic turn of century Restaurant just a few meters from M/Y "GOLDEN ARROW" and shake hands with the Yacht owner, while Your luggage is brought on board into Your cabins.
15:00h: Set sails, bound for POROS island;
18:00h: Arrival POROS harbour. After a sundowner on board, dinner at a classic fish tavern along the promenade
2nd day:
In the morning a very small excursion in an only 5 km range round POROS town, giving you an impression of Greece throughout the centuries with examples from ancient Mycenaean (kings graves of kingdom of Troizen, 
1400-1150 B.C., excavation works in progress) over Classic Hellenic period (500-200 B.C.; here: spa and holy spring) to Byzantine time (400-1400 A.D.; here: ruin of monastery of the Holy Demetrios). Surrounded by a beautiful landscape, these places kept their original character, still untouched by tourist industry. In the afternoon set sails, bound for HYDRA island, on half way stop over for a swim in turquoise shallow waters. Mooring at HYDRA harbour, one of the best preserved and most picturesque little harbours of the Mediterranean. 
Artists from all over the world stayed here, Leonard Cohen wrote his most famous songs ("Suzanne") while he lived here in the late 60es. In time for sunset, we will stroll along the coastal path and have a sundowner somewhere along, before we will sit down for supper at Stefanos Douskos' classic tavern under the big tree, where Cohen used to sit and take out his guitar in late summer nights.
3rd day:
Set sails, bound for the island of ANDROS. We will cast anchor in the beautiful bay of Batzi und and are thus enabled to keep our natural swimming pool open over the whole night. 
Early dinner for to ketch sunset at "The Balcony of the Aegean", a tavern high up at the steep mountain slope with breath taking view on the sea and islands South of Andros. 
Next morning we will visit the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, a donation of one of the biggest Greek ship-owner families, as this family is of Andros origin. And as churches and monasteries are an attribute to Greece like the seagulls to the sea, we will have a look to the 9th century fortified monastery of Panachrantou. In the afternoon we will have a short sailing to the neighbour island of Tinos
4th day:
TINOS: Visit to the School of Fine Arts at Pyrgos, the most important institute for marble craftsmen in Greece. Besides berthing this unique school, Tinos town is a kind of Greek Lourdes, and the cathedral of the Holy Virgin Mary of Tinos is most interesting to visit. On the photo of the cathedral's interior you see just one of the thousands of votive-dedications to the Virgin Mary brought by one of the many pilgrims having asked her for help.
5th day:
Set sails, bound for MYCONOS. 
We will cast anchor in a bay at the South coast of Myconos, as the main harbour is full of trouble and noise. Myconos, indeed, is an extremely touristy busy place, and you do not need here your host for to accompany you.
6th day:
In the early morning we will sail the very short distance to the neighbour island and visit the ruins of DELOS, the most important mythological and archaeological site in Greece. At midday, while setting sails and slowly cruising in calm waters .
South along the channel between the islands of DELOS and RHINEA, we will have an extended champagne-brunch on board for to celebrate having experienced the very centre of the cradle of our culture. 
Mooring at the "Potato-Pier" at Ag. Anna, island of NAXOS. The restless ones can do from here a walk along the endless beach. Sunset-dinner at Nicola's Taverna FAROS just a few meters from the pier.
7th day:
Visit of the CLOS TZANAKOU. The owner will lead us through his vineyard and invite for a wine degustation with fine little snacks on his terrace, which additionally provides us with just another breathtaking view. From the wine-yard we will drive to the sanctuary of DEMETER, a partly re-erected temple (with the help of the Munich University), interesting to look at, as the fantasy does not have to work as hard as in view of other ancient ruins.
8th day:
During the morning we will have a look at the town-castle of Naxos and then go on to have a look at an archaic unfinished marble-statue, which had cracked during transport from the quarry down to the harbour some 2500 years ago, for to ship it, bound for the sanctuary of Delfi or the Akropolis, we have forgotten, where ... The dropped unfinished statue lies next to a classic well with all the almost as archaic corroded machinery and the meanwhile released to heaven donkey, which drove it on his path round and round the well. We will have a rest there in the shade under the vine-leaves (and think about our lives as a donkey) while getting served refreshments by the owners of the garden.
At late midday we will set sails to stroll down the channel between Naxos and Paros to the small islands of Iraklion, Schinoussa, Denoussa South of Naxos and look around there for a nice bay (according to whether conditions) for the night. 
9th day:
Today we will have "a day off". Swimming and relaxing will be our occupation, with just the fish and birds around us and maybe a few civilized - goats. The crew, however, will slave during the afternoon for to prepare a beach-party chez nous (hence we would invite the nosy goats, which had watched us already the whole day long).
10th day:
A morning-swim and a big breakfast will complete our recovery from all these adventurous days we had, before we set sails, bound for SANTORINI. We are in no hurry, as the most impressive moment to sail into the crater of Santorini is at sunset.
The next morning, at the 11th day of our cruise, we visit Oia at the edge of the crater cliffs, of which half the town simply had slipped down into the sea when in 1708 and again in 1866 the volcano became active and popped up two new islets in the middle of the Santorini crater circle.We will go with the speedboat of GOLDEN ARROW to the black, still steaming inner crater, a trip like to the gauge of the Hades (Greek mythology's hell). We will have a look at some excavations. The ashes of the last mayor eruption of the volcano in the 16th century B.C. had covered and thus preserved a whole city with some outstanding fresco paintings of Minoan culture.
In the afternoon we will have a short sail to the island of FOLEGANDROS. In Early evening we take the bus up to the "Chora" of Folegandros (as on the islands all over the Kyklades, the town, called chora, was built on a strategic hilltop above the harbour for to prevent being robbed and raped time and again by pirates) and arrive just in time for another "breathtaking" view from the cliff edge at the entrance of the mono-pedestrian town.
The following 12th day we will sail onwards to another even bigger, but much longer ago cooled crater (but you never know, it could become active any time again), the island of MILOS. A stroll along the coast with its partly spectacular volcanic rocks and some pool-is-prepared-for-your-bath-madam stopovers will finally lead us to the nearby VATHI bay of neighbour island of SIPHNOS.
13th day.
After a visit to some traditional potters, nation wide famous for producing their 200 years long same own style of pottery on their foot-driven disc, we are sailing to the private owned islets of PETALI. Golden Arrow will cast anchor in the most sheltered right middle of the group of islets, where a ship-owner's turn of century built white villa is mastering the bay. We can do a short walk to the hilltop above the villa, for to have a look at the quite preserved atrium-house of the island's former owner, a pasha of the Ottoman Empire, have a swim in the turquoise waters and stretch out at the white sand beach of the island's lagoon.
14th day:
After these two weeks of Dionysian Life, we, Host and crew of GOLDEN ARROW, most probably will have to sort of "chase" you back to your normal days duties, and therefore we will sail you straight to the airport (harbour of RAFINA, 15 min. by taxi from departure gate).
Epilogue
If you intend to have a connecting holyday week at one of the places GOLDEN ARROW is visiting during its cruise, we can book for you rooms at the most individual classic hotels at any of these harbours or islands. Just tell us your preferences.
Of course you can just as well charter GOLDEN ARROW for to be "the temporary owner" with your own ideas of a cruise program (and we still can provide you on request with a local insider consultant on board for to make sure you find the most delightful hidden bays, the best restaurants and the most interesting spots to visit during your cruise).
OUR SPECIALITY IS WORKING AS INCENTIVE OPERATOR.
WE CONSULT COMPANIES TO TAILOR A PROGRAM ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY´S SPECIAL NEEDS.
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Prices
3000 Euro per day payable in any currency plus 4.5% VAT.
Included: water, crew salaries, fuel consumption for 4 hours daily sailing (engines´ consumption is 100 lits per hour), harbour and marina fees.
Excluded: Half board meals (breakfast, lunch) 25 Euro per person/day. Full board meals 35 Euro per person/day. Host 200 Euro/day.  All season price
This Program was established by Karl Anno Friederich von Loebbecke, based on his 30 years experience in charter-business in Greece and 35 years experience of sailing in the Aegean seas.
Your Host KARL v. LOEBBECKE, POROS, OCTOBER 2008
"Experience is the name, man has given to his mistakes"
Photographs: GDFL/Wikipaedia license free; GNU Free Documentation License; creativecommons.org; Cruiserlog.com (Kinaros 1 u. -2); Municipality of Tinos; Municipality of Sifnos; own resources. Owners of photos used in this brochure/homepage, who were by mistake not asked for their permission are kindly requested to get in contact with us ( Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. ).
