Anne Marie proved again that one does not need to wear a beard and swear to be a top skipper.  She combined professionalism, experience, patience and all time availability to be recognized as a top skipper. Dead calms on  'FOLEGANDROS ISLAND' with Florence and her family, active sailing on  'SOPHIA' with Bernard, Bernard and their wives.

Dominique started from KOS to cross the whole Aegean sea with Francois. It is a unique experience to start from Minor Asia and end the other side of the sea at Athens. Sailing through the South Cyclades by Astypalia, Amorgos, Koufonisi, Antiparos, Santorini, Folegandros ... is a real adventure out of the beaten tracks. Congratulation to the crew of 'Tramontana'. Thanks to Francois the skipper too.

The yachts PASSION  crossed each other many times last summer; it was great fun to meet others at KITHNOS  (above) and SERIFOS with Francois and Anne Marie and share various experiences of three yachts.
Francois told us his navigation from Kos to Athens, Athens to Paros, then Paros to Athens alone to leave his guests at Paros as planned. Quite an itinerary in a few weeks.
Here, thomas collected a wonderful seastar. The beauty returned to nature after being a real Star in our world. His hands being free, he was able to enjoy some steering..

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Danny and his friends left their YORKSHIRE to attempt a sailing cruise in Greece. All went very well, even this day when the wind being unfriendly, we decided to visit another continent. The day after we were with the camels in BODRUM, TURKEY for the week-end.
Amazing contrast that helped us to forget the paper work.

At last, to close the season, Ken and Cindy against all negative advises to leave their country, flew out of the US and enjoyed a very peaceful cruise on a comfortable CATAMARAN. Ester was as always 'the best in the east' in cooking, sailing, swimming, provisioning...
We have been offered a sight and sound at TILOS when mooring at the foot of a medieval castle by the town hall; it was magic just for us.
 

Many others that I don't forget, have sailed this year with us. I just dont want this report to be too long.
Steven, Patrick, Fred, Daniel, Alan, Jean, Rob, Paule, Cyril, Myriam, Raoul, Dimitri, Marie Laurence, Annie, Florence... without naming everybody, I would like to assure them that each person counts for us as much as the success of each cruise.

The sailing season  2002 has started well with some reservations and many projects .
Concerning cruising in the Aegean Sea, I guarantee cool times by a total lack of bad news.The rest is professional stuff.

See you soon!

All the best

Yann
and the PASSION team: Servanne  

Year 2000 sailing report