Our story
began here…
About Us
Born and raised in Greece. My adult life was quite intense. After school everything happened fast. University, army, university again and a job full of dead lines, stress, responsibilities. I had enough. I needed to change my life style. But what could I do?
I always loved the outdoors. Sea scout, climber, hiker, diver, anything you can imagine. I was sailing some years on a yacht as a main trimmer on a racing boat in Greece. So the idea came from one of my instructors. “Nik? Why don’t you go to U.K. for the Yachtmaster?” What was the Yachtmaster? Never heard about anything like that. It seemed a good idea to become a professional sailor. Sail and make my leaving. Unbelievable. Course booked, flights booked, ready? Go!
January 2011 started my career in sailing industry. Worked in several places as a skipper or RYA sailing instructor. England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia.
It needed a COVID to slow me down. The home isolation found me in Athens, running my own sailing school, or at least trying. I used that lonely time to slow down, relax and think of my life. There are so many other things than sailing that I had forgotten for so long. I realised that I was running on an endless race just like before.
In 2021 the lockdown ended in Greece mid May. After all this time I was back on the water. What a great feeling. The wind blowing on my face, the deep blue water, the freedom….. amazing. Beginning of June I had a big group of Polish ladies. I went down to Lavrion to see the boat. They arrived. Lovely group. Happy. So excited for the trip. And then their physical leader, the one who organised all this. “Hello, I’m Monika. Nice to meet you”. That was it… everything around me got a new meaning. Everything was good only when she was smiling. That week was the first one of my new life. I was in love…
Nikos
2019 year. It would have seemed an ordinary year. Career at full speed. Behind me, a PhD, work at a prestigious university, my own company and…. complete lack of time for myself. Life is mostly work. Scary … I can’t answer even the simplest question: What can make me feel happy? And suddenly the idea … I’ll do something new. I’ve had such outbursts before. For my fortieth birthday, I took a motorcycle course and started to enjoy this form of relaxation. But I felt I needed more than that. Sailing !!!! This is what I want to try. But how to do it??
That’s what friends are for. It took only a few phone calls. In one evening I already had a crew list and contact information for a company that would help us organize it all. We formed a group of sailing women and we promised to repeat it every year.
The first stage was Croatia. Wonderfully!!! Time only for us. Finally!!! No phone calls, no customers, and no urgent matters. Only local specialties, wine, fairy-tale landscapes and sincere conversations until dawn. Complete cleansing. We kept our word.
Another summer – Greece was waiting for us … Cyclades, wonderful Greek food and closest friends. Oh yeah, I fell in love with Greece to death!!!
But this year I fell in love for the second time …
Monika