Paroikia, Paros

N37°05.54 E025°09.02
(April 2010)

Anchored in the north bay (the furthest east one). Good holding and shelter in strong/gale force northerlies.

There's a garage on the road out of town (the road runs parallel with the harbour front). 100m past the garage, on the right, is a medium sized Carrefore. From the harbour: cut up the side street to get to the garage/Carrefore road (with your back to the harbour head left and take first right turn). This cut through street has a fish shop, a bakers and a good fruit and veg shop.

We liked Paroikia old town. The narrow, whitewashed streets are typically Greek - it's like Mikonos but smaller. The 6th century church at the beginning of the old town is a very attractive bit of architecture.

Katapola, Amorgos

N36°49.62 E025°51.55
(April 2010)

Anchored in the bay to the west of the quay (forecast was for light wind from the south). Holding and shelter were fine. It was fairly deep until we were close in to the beach. We didn't go ashore, as we wanted to keep moving west whilst the weather held up and, so, left the next morning.

Ormos Maltezana, Astipalaia

N36°34.55 E026°23.18 (*but see note below)
(April 2010)

A calm and well sheltered anchorage, to the west of the pier. *We were in 3m and our anchor got fouled on a big chain that comes off the wreck, lying closer in. My prize for not avoiding this hefty obstacle, in the first place, was an invigorating dip early the next morning to attach a tripping line. We didn't go ashore so don't have any details of what's there.

Ormos Kamares, Kos

N36°44.08 E026°58.42
(April 2010)

Good holding and shelter (to the south of the outer mole) from strong W/NW wind. Didn't go ashore but we could see a shop that looked like it would be open once the holiday season really got going.

Pethi, Simi

N36°36.81 E027°51.42
(April 2010)

Good holding and shelter, to the south of the pier. There's a small shop on the harbour front, for basics, and a garage a few minutes walk along the road inland. The bus to Simi town leaves from the harbour front (as 25 past the hour, from what we could tell). In Oct 2008, when we first here, the fare was ?1.

Mandraki Cove, Kastellorizon

N36°08.92 E029°35.89
(April 2010)

Anchored in the middle of Mandraki harbour. It’s shallow: we were anchored in 4m and weren’t as close in as we would have liked but it was close enough to get adequate shelter. The holding was good. A very pleasant and attractive spot.

I read an old note, in the Turkish Waters Pilot, that it was possible to check into Greece at Kastellorizon but not possible to get a Transit Log. As we already had a Traffic Document, and as EU citizens we don’t need a Cruising Permit, we thought we’d see if we could complete the formalities here. The Port Control Office is on the end of the jetty (pass the Duty Free shop and keep going, towards the end and around to the right). The Customs Office is next door. Passport Control is in a portacabin outside Duty Free. The Port Control guy was the most courteous and accommodating official we’ve ever met. We paid our €15 check in fee and €10 for two nights port dues, got our Traffic Doc stamped in and out of Kastellorizon at the same time (to save us from returning for an exit stamp the next morning), completed a crew list and lodged copies with Port Control and then with Passport Control who also checked our passports. The Customs lady spends a lot of her time at the Duty Free shop and she made sure we were pointed in the right direction for each official. Checking in there was a pleasant, straightforward experience for us.