The Kavas Yachting Blog, with sailing news and announcements

Cultural sailing: Ancient Greek Theater

With your yachting charter expedition, visit ancient Greek Theaters that every year perform the works of Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Feb 24, 2019

The NEW Bali 5.4 Catamaran

The new Bali 5.4 catamaran is an impressive new dream boat demonstrating luxury and home comforts for larger parties of up to 12 people...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Feb 4, 2019

12 reasons why Cyclades are Paradise

With the riot of cultures, history and opportunities to have fun in nearly every way you can imagine, the Cyclades has all you could want as you have a holiday of a lifetime...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Sep 26, 2018

8 wrongly held myths about yacht charter

There are a number of myths around chartering yachts that really aren’t true. Let’s have a look at eight of them and show you just how wrong these are!

Kavas Yachting Blog
Jul 27, 2018

Superstitions among sailors - what you should do or say aboard

Unlike land the sea acts very much as a being of its own right. With rare exception the land is benign. Even in a small bay, the sea may decide it is your turn to drown...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Jul 13, 2018

Geomagnetic field and magnetic poles reversal

Ever wondered why your binnacle compass points toward the North? Why does it point just away from True North due to 'variation'? Let's explore this peculiar phenomenon that does far greater things than merely allowing a yacht to be navigated - what about keeping the atmosphere intact from solar rays?

Kavas Yachting Blog
Jul 6, 2018

Essential yacht and safety briefing checklist on a boat

Whether setting out on an ocean crossing or merely island hopping on a Kavas yacht, you are down to your own devices. You won’t see a helicopter drop down over the person who has fallen in the drink for a good hour...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Feb 22, 2018

About prevention of collision at sea - Regulations and examples

In this article we will look at a case where a boat was wrecked and its crew nearly killed when another vessel hit them...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Jan 23, 2018

Mediterranean means unique yacht cruises and tasty cuisine

The Mediterranean Basin is known world-wide as the go-to place for unique yacht cruises, with its big and small islands spread throughout the waters, the mild winds, the Mediterranean sun and certainly the tasty cuisine!

Kavas Yachting Blog
Dec 5, 2017

Why is sailing a white boy's sport?

For the writer as a white middle class boy this is a tough question to ask: why are people of other ethnicities to my own so few and far between in sailing? If we were to widen the question to ‘why is sailing seemingly overwhelmed by able bodied white men’, then we could quite easily point our fingers at the Blue Blazer / Snotty Club Brigade and blame them

Kavas Yachting Blog
Nov 30, 2017

Sailing for People with Disabilities by Kavas Yachting

When it comes to sailing,what matters is the ability rather than the disability...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Nov 10, 2017

Yachts for sale by Kavas Yachting in Athens

From time to time, Kavas Yachting places its own yachts for sale in the framework of the constant renewal of its young fleet of 50+ monohulls and catamarans...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Nov 2, 2017

How to Navigate the Oceans and Waterways manually

As with anything electronic on a boat, your systems could go down. You will need to navigate manually using a magnetic compass to get a ‘three point fix’ and when visibility was terrible, using something called Dead Reckoning (DR) and Estimated Position (EP)...

Kavas Yachting Blog
Oct 19, 2017

The most commonly used abbreviations of the boating world

The yachting and boating world can seem strange to an outsider with all sorts of jargon and abbreviations. While most boaties are extremely welcoming, we can lose our landlubber friends by lapsing into jargon that makes our world opaque and confusing to newcomers and outsiders alike...