Prevent Injuries - Avoid Persons Overboard - Prevent Damages to the boat. This comprehensive updated for 2024 guide, covers everything you need to know to navigate the waters with confidence
With your yachting charter expedition, visit ancient Greek Theaters that every year perform the works of Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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.
