Travels with S/Y Thetis
1998
Lesvos to Istanbul, Central Aegean, North Aegean

This is a very personal log of a period of over 4 months covering several sailing trips with my boat, Thetis, in the Aegean and a trip with my brother's boat Faneromeni from Mitilini, Lesvos to Istanbul. The first trip with Thetis was from Glyfada, a suburb of Athens, Greece where she spends the long winter months, to the Aegean islands of Kea, Kithnos, Syros, Rhinia, Donousa, Patmos, Agathonisi (Gaidaros), and Samos. There follows a period of staying ashore in our family house in Samos from where several trips were made. There was a short trip from Samos to the islands of Arki, and Agathonisi and back to Samos. Another short trip to Fourni, Patmos, Agathonisi, and Samos. A longer trip to Arki, Levitha, Astypalea, Lispi, Agathonisi, and Samos. A third short trip to Arki, Patmos, Lipsi, Agathonisi, and back to Samos. Finally the leisurely return trip from Samos to Glyfada covering the Northern Aegean islands of Chios, Lesvos, Lemnos, Pelagos (Kyra Panayia), Alonissos, Peristera, Skantzoura, Skyros, and the Cycladic islands of Andros, and Kea. This was followed with a final short trip to island of Poros in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.