Training Schedule
We offer training sessions to improve your sailing skills. Our highly proficient trainers will teach you how to push your skills to another level. From trimming, to tactics, to managing long passages and many others, our courses are designed to do just that; make you a better sailor.
Three kinds of training
*Updated for 2023!
| 1. Long Passage – Med cruising | Level: Beginner – Intermediate | Difficulty: Medium |
| 2. Train and race | Level: Intermediate and higher | Difficulty: Hard |
| 3. Train and certificate | Level: Novice | Difficulty: Medium |
Designed to hone your skills on long passages and sailing during the night, for multiple days. Yet, pleasure and fun can always be there, breaking the Mediterranean voyages in interesting and beautiful destinations like Palma de Mallorca, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta etc. combining necessary provisioning with spectacular sightseeing.
Routes – Dates:
Athens – Malta 12 – 19 October 2024
Malta – Cagliari 26 October – 2 November 2024
Cagliari – Mallorca 2 – 9 November 2024
Mallorca – Gibraltar 9 – 16 November 2024
Gibraltar – Gran Canaria 16 – 23 November 2024
Prices:
1800€ per person per week (Minimum people/week: .3 Maximum people/week: 5)
3100€ per person for two weeks
4300€ per person for tree weeks
5100€ per person for four weeks
For groups: -5% for every additional person. Max -15%
Instructor: Dimitris Kalantzis
Designed primarily for races, this course plans to hone your trimming and tactics skills. Starting from Athens, and using the typically windy Aegean Sea as a playground we train and race.
While training we chase the wind. We set sail every morning, slalom between the islands to practice sail changes, upwind trimming, downwind trimming, tactics, starting procedures, teamwork, short-handed sailing, sailing during the night etc. For 2024 we have planned three such events.
a. Cyclades Regatta. 21 June– 1 July 2024
A race for competition but also pleasure. The fleet is competitive, yet there are days off in the beautifull islands to relax and explore, or just go to the party that the hosting Yacht Club throws. We could also go out and train a bit more. This race is the perfect combination of pushing but also relaxing and geting a taste of the local islands.
This year’s race has the following legs:
. Saturday 22/06: Athens-Syros 58 Nm
. Monday 24/06: Syros-Milos 48 Nm
. Wednesday 26/06: Inshore Milos.
. Thursday 27/06: Milos-Serifos 27 Nm
. Saturday 29/06: Serifos-Sounion 44 Nm
Participation fee:
2000 € / person.
Min number of people: 3, maximum: 6
For groups: -5% for every additional person. Max -15%
The focus of the training is trimming, fast sail changes and teamwork.
b. Aegean 600 1 – 13 July 2024
The Schedule is two weeks long. We train the first week and race the second. At the end of the training week, we will take part at the first Aegean 600 race, a non-stop race destined to become iconic. Starting below the impressive temple of Poseidon in Athens, slaloming between the islands, using the spectacular cliffs of Santorini as a door and returning back to the point where the god of wind and sea oversees his kingdom, all of that in the typical windy meltemi conditions. The prevailing north wind of the Aegean during July and August is going to offer some pretty spectacular and fast downwind legs, some very tactical upwind and some impressive beem reach legs.
The training, besides trimming and tactics, is focused on night sailing and sailing shorthanded with shifts. After the end of the race (3-4 days) we will continue with well deserved vacation sailing until the end of the week (Friday evening).
Participation fee:
3400 € / person.
Min number of people: 3, maximum: 6
c. Rolex Middle Sea Race 12 – 26 October 2024
The Schedule is two weeks long. We train the first week and race the second. During the training week we brong the boat from Greece to Malta, either through the Corinth Chanel or South of Peloponnese. We choose depending on the wind, so we can train as efficently as possible, while making several stops in amazing picturesque locations.
In Malta, we join the iconic Rolex Middle Sea Race, 600 Nm circumnavigating Sicily, organizing our tactics to the variable systems around the big mountains, manouvering efficiently through the eddies of Messina, watching Stromboli erupt at night, while fighting with some of the best boats globaly.
The training, besides trimming and tactics, is focused on night sailing and sailing shorthanded with shifts. After the end of the race (2-3 days) we will continue with well deserved vacation sailing until the end of the week (Friday evening).
Participation fee:
3400 € / person.
Min number of people: 3, maximum: 6
Designed for novice sailors, this course will teach you the basics of sailing and its goal is to prepare you to charter your own boat. At the end of the course you will take the official exams from NASPOR yacht club, certified by the Greek sailing federation, and if successful you will receive the basic sailing diploma. With this official certificate from an EU state you will be able to charter a boat anywhere in the world.
The program is dictated by the official rules of the Greek sailing federation and are as follows:
Friday evening
Meeting on NASPOR facilities. Getting to know each other and first theoretical course.
Saturday morning – Next Saturday evening
Sailing every day for 6-8 hours, depending on the weather conditions, arriving at a different island every evening and doing a 3 hours theoretical course in the evening. During the week there will be a night sailing crossing.
Sunday
Written theoretical exams at NASPOR facilities.
Curriculum
1. Introduction – terminology
2. Aerodynamics – trimming
3. Navigation
4. Communications
5. International regulations for avoiding collisions at sea
6. Introduction to engines and other mechanical parts of the boat
7. Safety at sea
8. Weather systems
9. Mooring
Participation fee:
1600€ / person.
Min number of people: 4, maximum: 6
For groups: -5% for every additional person. Max -15%
Exact dates
Upon request
Instructor: Dimitris Kalantzis