Dodecanese charter catamaran
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The Dodecanese chain stretches from Patmos in the north to Karpathos in the south along the Turkish coast — twelve major islands plus dozens of smaller cays, with the centre of gravity at Kos (international airport, marina at Kos Town) and Rhodes (largest of the chain, multiple marinas). Charter activity here is the most international in Greek waters: cross-border one-way deliveries to Bodrum, Marmaris and Göcek in Turkey are routine, with Rhodes-to-Bodrum running the busiest 7-day repositioning leg in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The meltemi reaches the Dodecanese softer than the Cyclades — typically 3–5 Beaufort with peaks at 6 — but the long open-water fetches between Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos and Kos give the chain a different sailing character: longer passages (12–18 NM standard), bigger sea states than the protected Cyclades. Catamarans handle the chain well because the leeward anchorages on Symi, Tilos and Nisyros run shallow sand seabeds where the wide-beam 1.2-metre-draft catamaran sits inside where monohulls have to anchor offshore.

Headline catamaran anchorages include Pedi Bay on Symi (the photogenic neoclassical waterfront village), Pothia harbour on Kalymnos (the working sponge-diving port), the Telendos channel north of Kalymnos for the sundowner stop, the Apolakkia anchorage on Rhodes (long west-coast white-sand strand), and the Mandraki harbour at Nisyros for the volcanic-caldera shore excursion. Patmos itself — the island where John of Patmos wrote the Book of Revelation — has the Cave of the Apocalypse and the 11th-century Monastery of Saint John as the headline inland excursion.