Dodecanese Islands Charter Itinerary

Dodecanese Islands Itinerary

Dodecanese Islands Yacht Charter
The Dodecanese lie against the Turkish coast, far from Athens and long fought over ’ Knights Hospitaller, Ottomans, Italians and finally Greeks, who only took possession in 1947. The architecture records every one of them.





They are also a genuine sailing ground. The meltemi funnels down between the islands, the passages are longer than in the Cyclades, and the anchorages are correspondingly less crowded. Rhodes and Kos aside, most visitors never come.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Dodecanese; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Rhodes

Begin at Rhodes, whose medieval city is the largest inhabited one in Europe, built by the Knights of St John and walled against a siege they eventually lost. Walk the Street of the Knights before the heat. The Colossus stood somewhere near the harbour mouth, though nobody agrees where. Sail in the afternoon.
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Day 2

Symi

North to Symi, and the approach into Yialos harbour is one of the great arrivals in the Aegean ’ tiers of neoclassical mansions in ochre and rose, built on sponge-diving money, rising from the water on three sides. Swim at Agios Georgios beneath a three-hundred-metre cliff. Eat the small local shrimp, fried whole.
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Day 3

Nisyros

Nisyros is a volcano with a village on the rim, and the caldera floor is still hot ’ you walk down into it, across cracked ground that steams and smells of sulphur, and the whole thing feels distinctly provisional. Mandraki, the port, is whitewashed and ordinary and a very welcome contrast afterwards.
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Day 4

Kos

Kos is flat, fertile and easy ’ Hippocrates taught here, under a plane tree that the town still points to. The Asklepion, a healing sanctuary in terraces above the sea, is the reason to come, and the Italian colonial architecture in town is the unexpected pleasure. Beaches on the southern shore.
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Day 5

Kalymnos

Kalymnos lived on sponge diving, and the fleet went as far as North Africa each season with losses that the island still commemorates. The limestone above the port is now among the finest sport climbing in Europe. Anchor at Vathy, a fjord-like inlet with citrus groves along it and no beach at all.
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Day 6

Patmos

Patmos is quiet and slightly severe. St John is said to have received the Revelation in a cave here, now a chapel below the monastery, which stands over the island like a fortress because it was one. The Chora is a maze of white lanes. There is very little nightlife and no apology for it.
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Day 7

Return south

Work back down the chain with the meltemi behind you, stopping at Leros or Tilos as the wind allows ’ both have empty bays and neither sees many yachts. A last swim, a last taverna, and a week among islands that have spent three thousand years belonging to somebody else and remain entirely themselves.
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