Greece
Ionian Islands
The most forgiving water we sell: green islands, shelter always close, a breeze that arrives after lunch. Days run 15 to 25 nm.
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Six countries,
twelve places to start.
One way of doing it in every one of them: the whole boat, your own skipper, nobody else aboard. Each card below is a cruising area and the harbour you sail out of.
Pick the water first
Greece
Saronic Gulf
Aegina, Poros, Hydra and Spetses — an hour of city behind you and the first island by dinner. A harbour town every night.
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Greece
The Cyclades
Paros, Naxos, Mykonos, Santorini — the postcard islands and the harder sea that guards them. The meltemi blows hardest in July and August.
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Croatia
Central Dalmatia
Hvar, Brač and Vis within a day of each other. The maestral fills in around midday and drops at dusk, so afternoons are the sailing part of the day.
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Croatia
South Dalmatia
Korčula, Mljet and the Elafiti islands, with walled towns instead of empty bays. Kotor is close enough to add on to the week.
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Türkiye
Gulf of Göcek
More sheltered anchorages than one week can use, most of them under 10 nm apart. In October the water here is still the warmest we sail.
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Türkiye
Marmaris & Datça
Bozburun, Datça and the bays on the way. More open water than Göcek, and more wind with it.
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Italy
Amalfi & the islands
Capri, Ischia and Procida, with the Amalfi coast between them. Dinner ashore is half the point — and skip the middle two weeks of August.
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Italy
Sicily & the Aeolians
Seven volcanic islands in a ring — Lipari, Salina, Panarea — and Stromboli erupting at night as a sea mark. Longer legs than Greece.
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Italy
Sardinia & La Maddalena
Granite islands at the north end of Sardinia, water the colour of the tropics, and Corsica an afternoon away.
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Montenegro
Bay of Kotor
Twenty miles of flat water inside mountains, Kotor at one end and Budva at the other. Sheltered enough to sail on days when the open coast is not.
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Seychelles
Mahé, Praslin & La Digue
Three granite islands within about 25 nm of each other: short hops and long swims. May to September brings the south-east trades and steadier sailing.
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Most groups do it backwards: they agree on the place, then find out nobody can make those two weeks. Start from the week you can all agree on — almost every month has a region that is right then.
See the month-by-month map