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?
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...
You only need a couple of people to sail even quite a large boat. If you are a couple with kids, or are perhaps a little older this shouldn’t put you off a bareboat Greek yacht charter with Kavas Yachting...
At different ages we all look for different types of sailing. A very young child will need to be protected from too many thrills and spills, while your older, veteran sailor will have seen everything yet chooses not to be in Force 10 survival conditions....
In this article we will look at a case where a boat was wrecked and its crew nearly killed when another vessel hit them...
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!
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
When it comes to sailing,what matters is the ability rather than the disability...
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...
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)...
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...
You need to be switched on as all sailing is technical and you will have to deal with the issues as they arise.
When chartering a sail boat from Kavas Yachting, a client will always be advised to "keep the spray hood up"
Whether you are on a motor cruiser or a sailing yacht you will always have to consider the wind at sea. Every vessel is affected by it, whether a tiny yacht tender or one of the huge €100 million mega yachts that billionaires buy in cash.
Catamarans and monohull yachts are very different beasts on the water. Let’s look at them and help you choose what to sail with us at Kavas Yachting this summer...
In this article we will discuss some essential and not so essential gear you will need to bring with you when you charter as yacht with Kavas Yachting.
