Imagine a lovely cove on the south coast of Mykonos, right across the trendiest beach club, the sea a particular sparkling turquoise color, the sun washing the whole scenery with its rays and you are enjoying your cocktail on the fly bridge of a luxury motor yacht accompanied by your friends and family…Your dream can become true onboard O’NEIRO, our featured super yacht available now for your next yacht rent in Greece!
Having cruised the Greek Seas extensively since childhood, Lambros, one of our expert brokers in the Mediterranean, holds a special place in his heart for the Ionian Islands.
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The Meltemi wind has been blowing over the Aegean Sea recently, so we’re ready to offer some useful tips about sailing in the Greek islands. Here’s what you need to know to enjoy yourself while sailing the Greek seas.
Sun, sea and islands: Greece is blessed with thousands of islands, and the best way to explore them is by chartering a luxury yacht. Your typical luxury yacht charter in Greece will start and finish in Athens, where almost all the boats are based, and cruise around the islands for the week, visiting Mykonos and Santorini among others.
The Greek islands have been called “a Mediterranean Polynesia” and for good reason; there are 6 distinct island groups (Cyclades, Ionian, Dodecanese, Sporades, Saronic, North Aegean), offering countless miles of shores that are waiting to be explored on your Greece sailing vacations!
As someone who was born and raised in Greece and has been sailing since childhood, I have actually never managed to visit all the islands by boat! The only people I know to have cruised around all of the islands are professional captains, but they cannot all make that claim! You can keep returning to the Greek Polynesia for summers in a row and keep finding new cruising grounds: the sunny backdrop, the warm seas and the kind, hospitable nature of the locals will remain the same, but the scenery will change across the islands.
