Book Description
The standard companion for flotilla sailors and charterers giving sailing directions and detailed background information to the coasts and islands around Athens. It runs from Corinth to Cape Sounion, Aigina and Poros in the Saronic Gulf, and down the eastern side of the Peloponnese, covering Idhra and Spetsai, to Monemvasia and Cape Malea. It also includes the Western islands of Cyclades: Kea, Kithnos, Serifos, Sifnos and Milos.
From the Publisher
An essential companion and an important addition to the library of any boat heading for Greece
About the Author
Rod Heikell has spent more than 20 years cruising the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean.
In the 1970's he took time off from academic life and sailed Roulette, a 1950's JOG plywood hard chine sloop all of 20ft LOA and 6ft beam from England to Greece. He fell in lovewith the life and stayed in the Mediterranean. For a number of years he worked in the yacht charter business, delivered yachts and was a freelanec photographer. In 1979 he bought Fiddlers Green, a 28ft Cobra 850 and sailed it down to to the Mediterranean in the winter months. Three yaers later he acquired Tetra, a 31ft Cheverton New Campaigner built in 1962. In Tetra he travelled extensively around the Mediterranean researching his Pilots and recently sailed her to Southeast Asia and back. In 1987 he sailed down the Danube and on to the Aegean in a 19ft Mirror Offshore, Rozinante. His latest yacht seven Tenths,a Cheoy Lee Pedrick 36, is his fifth and is now in the Mediterranean from the Caribbean.
Rod Heikell is the acknowledged expert on sailing in the Mediterranean. His Pilots have become the model for others and are often referred to as 'The Bible'!
In the 1970's he took time off from academic life and sailed Roulette, a 1950's JOG plywood hard chine sloop all of 20ft LOA and 6ft beam from England to Greece. He fell in lovewith the life and stayed in the Mediterranean. For a number of years he worked in the yacht charter business, delivered yachts and was a freelanec photographer. In 1979 he bought Fiddlers Green, a 28ft Cobra 850 and sailed it down to to the Mediterranean in the winter months. Three yaers later he acquired Tetra, a 31ft Cheverton New Campaigner built in 1962. In Tetra he travelled extensively around the Mediterranean researching his Pilots and recently sailed her to Southeast Asia and back. In 1987 he sailed down the Danube and on to the Aegean in a 19ft Mirror Offshore, Rozinante. His latest yacht seven Tenths,a Cheoy Lee Pedrick 36, is his fifth and is now in the Mediterranean from the Caribbean.
Rod Heikell is the acknowledged expert on sailing in the Mediterranean. His Pilots have become the model for others and are often referred to as 'The Bible'!
